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Kenyan English / Alfred Buregeya.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dialects of English [DOE] ; 14Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 258 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517429
  • 9781501500978
  • 9781614516255
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. A brief history of English in multilingual Kenya -- 2. Geography, demography, and cultural factors -- 3. Phonetics and phonology -- 4. Morphology and syntax -- 5. Lexis and semantics -- 6. Discourse features -- 7. Survey of previous work and annotated bibliography -- 8. Sample texts -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: English in Kenya is a stable post-colonial variety that is used as an inter-ethnic lingua franca in private domains, is the medium of instruction as well as the language spoken in parliament and court rooms. Yet so far no comprehensive research monograph on Kenyan English has been published that surveys its characteristic linguistic features. The present book closes this gap by giving a full description of the characteristic linguistic features of Kenyan English. The book provides an in-depth overview of Kenyan English phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and also gives a meticulous account of the diachronic evolution of this post-colonial variety.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. A brief history of English in multilingual Kenya -- 2. Geography, demography, and cultural factors -- 3. Phonetics and phonology -- 4. Morphology and syntax -- 5. Lexis and semantics -- 6. Discourse features -- 7. Survey of previous work and annotated bibliography -- 8. Sample texts -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index

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English in Kenya is a stable post-colonial variety that is used as an inter-ethnic lingua franca in private domains, is the medium of instruction as well as the language spoken in parliament and court rooms. Yet so far no comprehensive research monograph on Kenyan English has been published that surveys its characteristic linguistic features. The present book closes this gap by giving a full description of the characteristic linguistic features of Kenyan English. The book provides an in-depth overview of Kenyan English phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and also gives a meticulous account of the diachronic evolution of this post-colonial variety.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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