Helene Steigertahl
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helene Steigertahl plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 3. Voices from the post-independence classroom: Language use and attitudes towards English in Namibia The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.), pp. 45–62 | Chapter
With its implementation as Namibia’s sole official language, English also became the only medium of instruction after mother tongue education during the first school years. This generated advantages as well as disadvantages, particularly in the educational sector, as English had – except in the… read more
2019 Chapter 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Chapter
The possibility of an evolving “Namibian English” was already suggested more than 30 years ago (Chamberlain 1981: 46). However, detailed analyses of the English(es) used in Namibia were only recently initiated (e.g. Otaala 2006; Buschfeld & Kautzsch 2014; Kautzsch & Schröder 2016; Steigertahl 2017). read more