Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
Reihe: Corpus and Discourse
An Analysis of Xhosa English
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
Reihe: Corpus and Discourse
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8841-1
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
Solidly researched monograph analysing a corpus of Black South African English from linguistic, educational, social and cultural perspectives
- Vivian de Klerk is a contributor to the World Englishes set and is the leading scholar on Black South African English
- She presents a thorough and comprehensive analysis of English as it is spoken in Black South Africa
- This is a key area of research in World English circles (e.g. The Society of Pidgins and Creoles of which Tometro Hopkins is President) and is of interest to Sociolinguists
- It is the third book in the Corpus and Discourse Series
This research monograph examines English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa, and is based primarily on an extensive spoken corpus of Xhosa English. Vivian de Klerk presents a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the historical development of this variety of English, and of English in South Africa more generally. The book outlines how the corpus of spoken Xhosa English was designed and compiled, and discusses the criteria relating to informants, the use of spoken rather than written data, and the codes and transcription conventions. The syntactic and pragmatic features of Xhosa English as demonstrated by the corpus are described in detail, and two chapters focus on the use of the discourse markers 'actually' and 'well'. The second section of this book examines the implications of the corpus findings. Vivian de Klerk looks at the implications of the use of this variety of English in educational, legal, social, cultural and everyday contexts. The final chapter of the book speculates as to the future of this fascinating variety of English in a globalised world.
This cutting-edge study will be of interest to researchers in world Englishes, language variation and corpus linguistics.
Zielgruppe
Academics/Researchers
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Definitions and Backgrounds
2. The Need for Norms: Building a Spoken Corpus
3. The Structure of the Xhosa English Corpus
4. The Syntactic Features of Xhosa English
5. Formulaic Utterances
6. The Use of Discourse Markers: The Case of 'Actually'
7. The Use of Discourse Markers: the Case of 'Well'
8. Expressing Levels of Intensity in Xhosa English
9. Lexical Characteristics and Topic Choices
10. Language and the Law: An Analysis of the TRC Hearings
11. The Classroom Discourse of Xhosa English Teachers
12. Code-Switching in the Corpus
13. The Future of Xhosa English: Social and Educational Issues
