Josef J. Schmied

List of John Benjamins publications for which Josef J. Schmied plays a role.

Articles

Schmied, Josef J. 2021 Review of Buregeya (2019): Kenyan EnglishEnglish World-Wide 42:3, pp. 350–354 | Review
Schmied, Josef J. 2019 Chapter 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositionsCorpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 355–372 | Chapter
This contribution proposes to replace the traditional native-speaker model at African universities with a sophisticated and stratified corpus model of nation-, university- and department-specific usage. It illustrates that the long-discussed realistic “national standard” may be possible – at least… read more
van Rooy, Bertus, Lize Terblanche, Christoph Haase and Josef J. Schmied 2010 Register differentiation in East African English: A multidimensional studyEnglish World-Wide 31:3, pp. 311–349 | Article
The article examines register variation in East African English by submitting the East African component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to a complete multidimensional analysis (Biber 1988). A six-factor model was extracted using 67 linguistic features (Biber 1988). The results show… read more
Schmied, Josef J. 1996 English in Zimbabwe, Zambia and MalawiFocus on South Africa, de Klerk, Vivian (ed.), pp. 301 ff. | Article
Schmied, Josef J. 1985 Attitudes Towards English in TanzaniaEnglish World-Wide 6:2, pp. 237–269 | Article
Schmied, Josef J. 1982 Review of Polomé & Hill (1980): Language in TanzaniaEnglish World-Wide 3:2, pp. 257–260 | Review