Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
Disciplina | 427.96 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface / Doug Biber -- Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia -- 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston -- 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut -- 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje -- 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl -- 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato -- 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green -- 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke -- 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van Rooy -- 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah -- 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch -- 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato -- 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord -- 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo -- 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied -- 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467546903321 |
Esimaje Alexandra | ||
Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
Disciplina | 427.96 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface / Doug Biber -- Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia -- 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston -- 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut -- 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje -- 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl -- 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato -- 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green -- 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke -- 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van Rooy -- 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah -- 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch -- 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato -- 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord -- 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo -- 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied -- 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793208703321 |
Esimaje Alexandra | ||
Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
Disciplina | 427.96 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface / Doug Biber -- Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia -- 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston -- 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut -- 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje -- 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl -- 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato -- 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green -- 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke -- 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van Rooy -- 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah -- 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch -- 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato -- 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord -- 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo -- 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied -- 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823796403321 |
Esimaje Alexandra | ||
Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The English Academy review |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- |
Disciplina | 420.5 |
Soggetto topico |
South African literature (English) - 20th century
English literature English language - Africa Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) - 20e siècle Littérature anglaise Anglais (Langue) - Afrique English language South African literature (English) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Soggetto non controllato |
English language
English literature South African literature (English) |
ISSN | 1753-5360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | EAR |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996207243103316 |
Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The English Academy review |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- |
Disciplina | 420.5 |
Soggetto topico |
South African literature (English) - 20th century
English literature English language - Africa Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) - 20e siècle Littérature anglaise Anglais (Langue) - Afrique English language South African literature (English) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Soggetto non controllato |
English language
English literature South African literature (English) |
ISSN | 1753-5360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | EAR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910263043703321 |
Johannesburg, : English Academy of Southern Africa, 1983- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : after the Cold War / / Alamin M. Mazrui |
Autore | Mazrui Ali AlʼAmin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
Disciplina | 420.9609049 |
Collana | Multilingual matters (Series) |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Africa
English language - Social aspects - Africa English language - Political aspects - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-82827-7
9786610828272 9781853596911 1-85359-691-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Post-Cold War English in Africa: Between Complementarity and Competition -- Chapter 2. English and African Education: Between Linguistic and Intellectual Dependency -- Chapter 3. English and the Pan-African Experience: In Search of Unity -- Chapter 4. English and the Afrocentric Voice: In Search of Authenticity -- Conclusion: Linguistic Appropriation and Beyond -- Appendix: The Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456082403321 |
Mazrui Ali AlʼAmin | ||
Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : after the Cold War / / Alamin M. Mazrui |
Autore | Mazrui Ali AlʼAmin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
Disciplina | 420.9609049 |
Collana | Multilingual matters (Series) |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Africa
English language - Social aspects - Africa English language - Political aspects - Africa |
ISBN |
1-280-82827-7
9786610828272 9781853596911 1-85359-691-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Post-Cold War English in Africa: Between Complementarity and Competition -- Chapter 2. English and African Education: Between Linguistic and Intellectual Dependency -- Chapter 3. English and the Pan-African Experience: In Search of Unity -- Chapter 4. English and the Afrocentric Voice: In Search of Authenticity -- Conclusion: Linguistic Appropriation and Beyond -- Appendix: The Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780464303321 |
Mazrui Ali AlʼAmin | ||
Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English in Africa : after the Cold War / / Alamin M. Mazrui |
Autore | Mazrui Ali AlAmin |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
Disciplina | 420.9609049 |
Collana | Multilingual matters (Series) |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Africa
English language - Social aspects - Africa English language - Political aspects - Africa |
ISBN |
1-280-82827-7
9786610828272 9781853596911 1-85359-691-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Post-Cold War English in Africa: Between Complementarity and Competition -- Chapter 2. English and African Education: Between Linguistic and Intellectual Dependency -- Chapter 3. English and the Pan-African Experience: In Search of Unity -- Chapter 4. English and the Afrocentric Voice: In Search of Authenticity -- Conclusion: Linguistic Appropriation and Beyond -- Appendix: The Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811600803321 |
Mazrui Ali AlAmin | ||
Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English in Africa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Grahamstown, South Africa, : Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 1974- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (volumes) |
Disciplina | 820/.8/096 |
Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - History and criticism
English language - Africa English as a Second Language African Literature African literature (English) English language |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals. |
Soggetto non controllato | Sabinet African ePublications (SA ePublications) |
ISSN | 2071-7474 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996197463803316 |
Grahamstown, South Africa, : Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 1974- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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English in Africa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Grahamstown, South Africa, : Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 1974- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (volumes) |
Disciplina | 820/.8/096 |
Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - History and criticism
English language - Africa English as a Second Language African Literature African literature (English) English language |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals. |
ISSN | 2071-7474 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910142038203321 |
Grahamstown, South Africa, : Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 1974- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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