LEADER 03895nam 22007212 450 001 9910451699003321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-107-16074-X 010 $a1-281-04028-2 010 $a9786611040284 010 $a1-139-13062-5 010 $a0-511-33463-X 010 $a0-511-33397-8 010 $a0-511-33329-3 010 $a0-511-48695-2 010 $a0-511-33521-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478679 035 $a(EBL)307398 035 $a(OCoLC)181086400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000263097 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207793 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263097 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272456 035 $a(PQKB)11113254 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511486951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10193785 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL104028 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478679 100 $a20090226d2006|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTwentieth-century English $ehistory, variation, and standardization /$fChristian Mair$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in English language 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-11583-3 311 $a0-521-83219-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index. 327 $g1.$tSetting the scene --$g2.$tOngoing language change : problems of detection and verification --$g3.$tLexical change in twentieth-century English --$g4.$tGrammatical changes in twentieth-century English --$g5.$tPronunciation --$g6.$tLanguage change in context : changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English --$gApp. 1.$tBrief survey of the corpora used for the present study --$gApp. 2.$tOED baseline corpora --$gApp. 3.$tEstimating text size in the newspaper archives and the World Wide Web --$gApp. 4.$tquarterly update of the OED online (new edition) -- 13 March 2003 : Motswana to mussy. 330 $aStandard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. 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Evans, Evaristo & Oyeyemi -- $t?Zimbabweanness Today?: An Interview with Tendai Huchu -- $tFEATURED ARTICLES -- $tRemembering Early Issues of African Literature Today -- $tAfrican Literature Today. Its History, Story, Impact & Continuing Journey* -- $tOn African Literature Today -- $tLITERARY SUPPLEMENT -- $tREVIEWS -- $tEds Xavier Garnier & Pierre Halen, Littératures africaines et paysage -- $tMukoma wa Ngugi, Mrs. Shaw (A Novel) -- $tElleke Boehmer, The Shouting in the Dark -- $tErnest Emenyonu, Princess Mmaeyen and Other Stories -- $tDayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa 330 $aThis special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel Americanah. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of "home".

GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

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