Author: Penny Silva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195714753
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Provides a historical record of the development of English in a multi-lingual and multicultural society.

Author: Jean Branford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Containing over 5000 entries, this enlarged and revised edition provides a wealth of new and updated words borrowed from Afrikaans, Malay, township slang, Indian Khosian and Bantu languages, including words influenced by the political upheavals of recent years. Branford offers phonetic transcripts for words derived from other languages, and for most entries, he gives etymologies, grammatical usages, and helpful quotes.

Author: Douglas Ridley Beeton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Juta Academic
ISBN: 9781919895710
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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South African Indian English (SAIE) is a variety of English in the Linguistics literature. It reflects the source of Indian subcontinent languages from Indian migrants to South Africa in the late 19th century, as well as colonial and apartheid influences and those of local African languages.

Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A scholarly and entertaining study of words, phrases and idioms which reflects the diverse social and linguistic currents within which the Indian South African community has developed. It focuses on the effects of language contact in borrowings, grammatical interference and semantic shifts as speakers of Indic languages came into contact with speakers of English, Afrikaans, Fanagalo and African languages. It focuses on the Indic lexical items which are common to all speakers, irrespective of whether their ancestral language was Tamil or Bhojpuri; on the lexical items restricted to particular subgroups depending on their ancestral language. It further annotates the idiomatic and slang phrases found principally amongst speakers of SAIE and identifies the specific grammatical and phonological features which characterise this variety of English. Mesthrie's work shows clearly both the distinctiveness of SAIE and its South Africanness. This lexicon provides an invaluable source of comparison with Indian English, the Creoles of the Caribbean, and with the linguistic experience of other overseas South Asian communities. "Mesthrie's A Lexicon of South African Indian English, described by the author as a supplement (and also complement) to the 1980 edition of A Dictionary of South African English (ed. Jean Branford) is a valuable and interesting endeavour in its own right. It is a valid contribution to the study of language and should appeal to students of linguistics, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians. The Lexicon also adds to the growing body of works on the contributions of the Indian South Africans." Rambhajun Sitaram, Lexicos Rajend Mesthrie was born in Durban, South Africa. He wrote his doctorate on the transformation of Bhojpuri in South Africa. He currently teaches linguistics at the University of Cape Town.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Vivian de Klerk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276048
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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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 Africa’s 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.

Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425348
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

Author: Braj Kachru
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441189769
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews. The first volume of these Collected Works brings together a number of Kachru's key papers from 1976 to 1990, covering Kachru's early work in the development of World Englishes as a concept and his exploration of non-native varieties of English.

Author: Joyce Hawkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195714142
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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This version of the dictionary, with over 35,000 headword entries, has been developed especially for South African school pupils. It includes common South African words and vocabulary used in school subjects, covering areas such as spelling, verbs, punctuation, numbers, and weights and measures.