Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate
Edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo
[Varieties of English Around the World, G59] 2016. vi, 280 pp.
Christiane Meierkord
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christiane Meierkord plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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2022. Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English. English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 220–248
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English. This… read more | Article
2019. Chapter 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements. Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 293–328
This paper discusses corpus linguistics as one method to investigate the lexicon of Ugandan English, which is characterised by borrowing, calquing, semantic extension, narrowing, and shift. It documents how analysing a well-balanced corpus, such as the Uganda component of the International Corpus… read more | Chapter
2016. Ugandan English - challenges to, and food for, current theories. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 1–16
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2016. Diphthongs in Ugandan English: Evidence for and against variety status and Interactions across Englishes. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 121–148
This chapter examines whether Luganda influence on Ugandan English can be
confirmed at the level of phonology or whether Ugandan English is the result of
Interactions across ethnic Englishes in the sense of Meierkord (2012). It presents
the results of spectrographic analyses of the lexical sets… read more | Article
2016. Speech acts in Ugandan English social letters: Investigating the influence of sociocultural context. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 227–248
This chapter investigates speech acts in Ugandan English social letters to
uncover how English is being adapted to meet the cultural conventions of its
Ugandan users. To this end, directive speech acts, particularly requests, will be
analysed and compared to other second language varieties of… read more | Article
2016. A social history of English(es) in Uganda. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 51–72
As is the case with the other countries that linguists have discussed under the
name East Africa, i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, English came
to the area that makes up Uganda today relatively late. This chapter traces the
history of English in the country. It describes where speakers of… read more | Article
2016. Review of Buschfeld, Hoffmann, Huber & Kautzsch (2014): The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and Beyond. English World-Wide 37:3, pp. 354–364
Review
2016. Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: Facts and issues. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 19–50
This chapter analyses the present-day language situation in Uganda with the
aim of providing a description of the diversity of Uganda’s languages, and the
space of English therein. It examines the degrees of development and vitality,
as expressed through speaker numbers and the availability of… read more | Article
2016. The use of the progressive in Ugandan English. Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 173–200
This study explores the use of the progressive in spoken Ugandan English.
Like in many other second language varieties of English, the progressive is
used with a high frequency, predominantly in the present or past tense active.
Detailed analyses show that the most frequent uses of the progressive… read more | Article
2004. Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes. English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 109–132
Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When… read more | Article
2002. Recurrent sequences and mental processes. Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 99–119
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2002. Introduction. Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 1–33
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