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"This book is different in that it opens a range of other topics of research that erupt when one thinks ‘from Africa’ and considers Englishes as African languages in all their functions. In this sense it is original and could be considered as seminal in a growing field."
—Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden University
"The present volume, which brings together African scholars to present their research into African varieties of English, is a welcome and much needed addition to the World Englishes canon."
—Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter One: Thematic Grounds in Englishes in Africa Today: An Introduction (Mayowa Akinlotan)
- Chapter Two: Defying Regime Changes and New Dispensations: The Entrenchment and Continuity of English Hegemony in Zimbabwe (Dion Nkomo and Raphael Nhongo)
- Chapter Three: English Meets Indigenous African Language: A Case Study of English-Kasem Bilinguals in Ghana (Ernestina Kabrikole Ayira/ Jemima Asabea Anderson/ Evershed Kwasi Amuzu)
- Chapter Four: English as Language of Instruction and Secondary School Dichotomies in Kenya: A Fresh Look at Classroom Data (Peter N. Mose and Everlyne K. Mose)
- Chapter Five: The Institutionalization and Integration of English in a Multilingual South African Context (Monica Hendricks and Dion Nkomo)
- Chapter Six: Threat, Empathy or (Polite) Request? The Pragmatics of Administrative Letters in Cameroon English (Daniel A. Nkemleke)
- Chapter Seven: The Influence of Globalization on English Norms: The Case of Abidance to British Spelling in Tanzania (Dunlop Ochieng and Godson Mtallo)
- Chapter Eight: Perceptions, Awareness and Attitudes towards Englishes in Africa: The Case of Nigerian English (Kingsley Ugwuanyi)
- Chapter Nine: English in the Expanding Circle of Morocco: A Sociolinguistic Exploration (Houssine Soussi)
- List of Contributors
Advance Praise for
Englishes in Africa
“This book is different in that it opens a range of other topics of research that erupt when one thinks ‘from Africa’ and considers Englishes as African languages in all their functions. In this sense it is original and could be considered as seminal in a growing field.”
—Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden University
“The present volume, which brings together African scholars to present their research into African varieties of English, is a welcome and much needed addition to the World Englishes canon.”
—Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Englishes in Africa
Edited by Mayowa Akinlotan
PETER LANG
New York • Berlin • Brussels • Lausanne • Oxford
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Control Number: 2022036077
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ISBN 978-1-4331-9286-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4331-9292-0 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-9293-7 (epub)
DOI 10.3726/b19008
© 2023 Mayowa Akinlotan
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About the editor
Mayowa Akinlotan works at the Linguistics Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany. He received a PhD in English Linguistics from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
About the book
Englishes in Africa is an important new edited collection which explores various aspects of English in contemporary Africa. The authors examine the current state of English in eight countries where the language plays a major role: Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Morocco, and Zimbabwe. Collectively they demonstrate the growing strength of English in Africa as part of globalization, notwithstanding the time that has elapsed since these countries gained their independence. The book also illuminates the clear tendency among people in anglophone Africa to claim ownership of the forms of English spoken in those countries today.
“This book is different in that it opens a range of other topics of research that erupt when one thinks ‘from Africa’ and considers Englishes as African languages in all their functions. In this sense it is original and could be considered as seminal in a growing field.”
—Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden University
“The present volume, which brings together African scholars to present their research into African varieties of English, is a welcome and much needed addition to the World Englishes canon.”
—Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Thematic Grounds in Englishes in Africa Today: An Introduction
←v | vi→Chapter Nine: English in the Expanding Circle of Morocco: A Sociolinguistic Exploration
Acknowledgements
The editor would like to thank the reviewers for their time and insightful comments. The reviewers include Maarteen Mous, Abolaji Mustapha, Thomas Hoffmann, Foluke Unuabonah, Thomas Brunner, Kperogi Farooq, Sven Leuckert, Ayo Ayodele, Mirka Honkanen, and Ebuka Igwebuike.
The editor also gives many thanks to Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation Germany for providing the editor with a 30-month research fellowship which supports this research output. The editor is grateful to a network of colleagues who remain source of inspiration, with special mentions to Hans Boas, Thomas Hoffmann, Alex Housen, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, and Lutz Marten, just to mention a few.
Our chapter contributors deserve special thanks for providing quality contributions and making the project a smooth undertaking.
Special thanks to the editorial and production team at Peter Lang Publishing for excellence in all stages of this book production.←vii | viii→
Details
- Pages
- X, 178
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433192920
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433192937
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433192869
- DOI
- 10.3726/b19008
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (February)
- Keywords
- African Englishes English Africa Varieties of English in Africa Africanisation of English World Englishes English in Morocco Cameroonian English Ghanian English South African English Kenyan English English Tanzania Nigerian English Zimbabwean English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2023. X, 178 pp., 4 b/w ill., 13 tables.
