Corpus linguistics and world Englishes : an analysis of Xhosa English
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Corpus linguistics and world Englishes : an analysis of Xhosa English
（Corpus and discourse / series editors, Wolfgang Teubert and Michaela Mahlberg, . Research in corpus and discourse）
Continuum, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-229) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
English is a global language which has spread historically through imperialism and more recently through communication networks throughout the world. In each location in which English is spoken it absorbs some of the idiosyncracies of the language native to that region, and one of the most fascinating areas of research for World Englishes is the African context. 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.
目次
- 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.
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