Corpus Linguistics And African Englishes
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Author |
: Alexandra U. Esimaje |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2019-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027262936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027262934 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes by : Alexandra U. Esimaje
Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new corpus initiatives both within and outside Africa that aim to compile various corpora of African Englishes. Moreover, it contains cutting-edge corpus-based research on African Englishes and the use of corpora in pedagogic contexts within African institutions. This volume thus serves both as a practical introduction to corpus compilation (Part I of the book), corpus-based research (Part II) and the application of corpora in language teaching (Part III), and is intended both for those researchers not yet familiar with corpus linguistics and as a reference work for all international researchers investigating the linguistic properties of African Englishes.
Author |
: Vivian de Klerk |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441186553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441186557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes by : Vivian de Klerk
Monograph examining English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa
Author |
: Stefanowitsch, Anatol |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 510 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961102242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961102244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corpus linguistics by : Stefanowitsch, Anatol
Corpora are used widely in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part introduces the reader to the general methodological discussions surrounding corpus data as well as the practice of doing corpus linguistics, including issues such as the scientific research cycle, research design, extraction of corpus data and statistical evaluation. The second part consists of a number of case studies from the main areas of corpus linguistics (lexical associations, morphology, grammar, text and metaphor), surveying the range of issues studied in corpus linguistics while at the same time showing how they fit into the methodology outlined in the first part.
Author |
: Mirka Honkanen |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2020-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027260888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027260885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis World Englishes on the Web by : Mirka Honkanen
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods—relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data—with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants’ language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages
Author |
: Susanne Mohr |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2021-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000461411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000461416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English by : Susanne Mohr
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of nominal plural marking, its morphosyntax and semantics, across different African varieties of English. Mohr explores the rich diversity in the varieties and how different conceptualizations of the number category are realized across different cultures. The investigation of unstandardized noun plurals in Kenyan, Tanzanian, Ghanaian and Nigerian Englishes is based on a mixed methods design drawing on corpus linguistics, acceptability questionnaires and psycholinguistic experiments. In this vein, the book not only contributes to the description of each of these four varieties, but also sheds light on standardization processes and language change in New Englishes. Importantly, it is a plea for the triangulation of data and mixed methods approaches in World Englishes research, as the combination of these methods grants insight into unforeseen areas of language structures and use. This volume is a useful reference work for students and researchers in World Englishes, varieties of English and African Studies, as well as those interested in linguistic anthropology.
Author |
: Josef J. Schmied |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X002126792 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Linguistics in the Service of Africa by : Josef J. Schmied
Author |
: Joybrato Mukherjee |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2011-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027223203 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027223203 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes by : Joybrato Mukherjee
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’
Author |
: María José López-Couso |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2016-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004321342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004321349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corpus linguistics on the move by : María José López-Couso
Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal. Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Siân Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgård, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Mäkinen, Beatriz Mato-Míguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.
Author |
: Hans-Georg Wolf |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2009-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110199222 |
ISBN-13 |
: 311019922X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis World Englishes by : Hans-Georg Wolf
The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive Linguistics generally and within its novel sub-discipline Cognitive Sociolinguistics can overcome certain limitations inherent in traditional approaches to cultural variation in language. They present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English as an exemplar for the investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English. Corpus-linguistic methods are combined with conceptual metaphor analysis and blending theory to elucidate a vast network of conceptualizations salient to speakers of African English. The findings, based on computer corpora and a range of additional sources, are discussed against the background of work in anthropology, religious studies, and political science. The book also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and concludes with a comparison of Cognitive Linguistics and pragmatic functionalism, placing the former in the wider framework of a hermeneutic philosophy that stresses dialogic understanding.
Author |
: Verena Minow |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3631601484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783631601488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English by : Verena Minow
Black South African English, the variety of English used by mother-tongue speakers of South Africa's indigenous languages, has received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, so far most of the accounts of this variety have been only qualitative in nature. This book reports on one of the first studies offering extensive quantitative analyses of four typical features of Black South African English grammar: omission of past tense marking, extended use of the progressive aspect, article omission, and use of left dislocation. Drawing on a corpus of spoken data, the study's focus lies on the investigation of the stability of the selected features and hence aims to ascertain which of these are characteristic of Black South African English as a whole. Speakers exhibiting differing levels of competence in English are compared. It is shown that the analysed features are used by speakers of Black South African English regardless of their proficiency level, but, at the same time, there are considerable differences concerning the frequency of occurrence of these features.