English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

by Natalia Budohoska

Overview

Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact? Analysis of lexical, morphological and syntactic features in the International Corpus of English for East Africa (ICE-EA) is accompanied by a sociolinguistic perspective and summarized employing Schneider's Dynamic Model.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631643990
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Series:	Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature , #36
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Natalia Budohoska is a graduate of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her areas of academic research include sociolinguistics and varieties of English. She has published several papers on English in Kenya and is continuing research on varieties of English around the world.

Table of Contents

Contents: History and status of English in Kenya – Language contact and its consequences – Multilingual Kenya and sociolinguistic parameters – International Corpus of English – Formality of English in Kenya – Kiswahili borrowings – Characteristic morphological and syntactic features – Postcolonial varieties of English.