| English in Kenya or Kenyan English? Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Other), Budohoska, Natalia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631643993 ISBN-13: 9783631643990 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $63.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 427.9 |
| LCCN: 2014021258 |
| Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.4" (0.66 lbs) 191 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
