Focus on South Africa
Editor
| Rhodes University, Grahamstown
This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English which have evolved in South Africa (including black, Indian and colored varieties) as well as the unique features of the English of South Africas southern neighbours: Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Other contributions focus on English in relation to issues such as standardisation, lexicography, education, language planning, language attitudes and interaction patterns.
The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.
The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. iv, 328 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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I. An Historical Perspective
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19
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35
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II. Pan-ethnic Varieties
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53
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79
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99
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III. The Problem of Standardisation
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149
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163
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175
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191
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IV. Issues in Education and Society
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211
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231
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251
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269
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V. The Northern Neighbours
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285
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301
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Index
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322
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List of contributors
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326
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General