Ghanaian pidgin English in its West African context : a sociohistorical and structural analysis
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Ghanaian pidgin English in its West African context : a sociohistorical and structural analysis
（Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 24）
J. Benjamins, c1999
- : eur
- : us
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Note
Updated and slightly rev. ed. of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Essen, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the "uneducated" variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. Maps
- 4. Introduction
- 5. A sociohistorical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast
- 6. Excursus: The settlement of the Sierra Leone peninsula, 1787-1850
- 7. The origin and development of West African Pidgin Englishes: linguistic data
- 8. The sociolinguistics of Ghanaian Pidgin English
- 9. A synchronic-structural description of Ghanaian Pidgin English
- 10. Conclusion
- 11. Appendices
- 12. References
- 13. Index
- 14. The CD: system requirements
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