English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

von Natalia Budohoska

191 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Vergleichende Linguistik Umgangssprache, Mundart, Dialekt
• ISBN: 9783631643990
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2014
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften