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English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

By Natalia Budohoska

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2014
ISBN
3631643993, 9783631643990
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1743083 bytes)
Series
Polish Studies in English Language and Literature
Pages
191\195
Time added
2017-05-14 09:10:40
Language & Grammar;Alphabet;Communication;EtymologSlang & Idioms;Dictionaries & Thesauruses;ReferencSlang & Word Lists;Reference;English as a Second L

Description

The book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses in detail the sociolinguistic situation in contemporary Kenya based on Labov’s extra-linguistic parameters and the results of a customized survey carried out by the author in Kenya. Furthermore, it identifies and describes characteristic stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of English in Kenya on the basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The theoretical framework employs Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes and an effort is made to put the amount of variation found in the ICE into a wider context of other varieties of English around the world.

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