Corpus Linguistics And African Englishes

Author : Alexandra U. Esimaje,Ulrike Gut,Bassey E. Antia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262936

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Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes by Alexandra U. Esimaje,Ulrike Gut,Bassey E. Antia Pdf

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
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441186553

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Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes by Vivian de Klerk Pdf

Monograph examining English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa

Author : Josef J. Schmied
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002126792

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Linguistics in the Service of Africa by Josef J. Schmied Pdf

Author : Hans-Georg Wolf,Frank Polzenhagen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199222

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World Englishes by Hans-Georg Wolf,Frank Polzenhagen Pdf

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 : Merja Kytö,Lucia Siebers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257949

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Earlier North American Englishes by Merja Kytö,Lucia Siebers Pdf

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions, including corpus linguistics, variation studies, dialectology, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, language ideology, and the enregisterment framework. In the ten chapters of the volume, a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, containing evidence of past language use in the U.S. and Canada are introduced and exploited for novel insights. Among the research questions addressed are the following: how to best model the emergence of new varieties of English in North America? Are morphological Americanisms historical retentions, post-colonial revivals, or progressive innovations? What is distinctly Canadian in the context of North American Englishes? How can synchronic dialects be used to examine trajectories of change in the history of Canadian English?

Author : Joybrato Mukherjee,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223203

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Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes by Joybrato Mukherjee,Marianne Hundt Pdf

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 : Susanne Mohr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000461411

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Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English by Susanne Mohr Pdf

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 : Roberta Facchinetti
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789042021952

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Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on by Roberta Facchinetti Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: "Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies", "Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics", and "Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora". The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades - from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.

Author : Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415315077

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World Englishes by Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru Pdf

Author : Stefanowitsch, Anatol
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102242

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Corpus linguistics by Stefanowitsch, Anatol Pdf

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
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260888

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World Englishes on the Web by Mirka Honkanen Pdf

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 : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199397396

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The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics by Robert B. Kaplan Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains 39 original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics addresses a broad audience: applied linguists; educators and other scholars working in language acquisition, language learning, language planning, teaching, and testing; and linguists concerned with applications of their work. Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics-and drawing from a wide range of disciplines such as education, language policy, bi- and multi-lingualism, literacy, language and gender, neurobiology of language, psycholinguistics and cognition, language and computers, discourse analysis, language and concordances, ecology of language, pragmatics, translation, and many other fields, the editors and contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics provide a panoramic and comprehensive look at this complex and vigorous field. This second edition includes five new chapters, and the remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated to give a clear picture of the current state of applied linguistics.

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259677

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The Dynamics of English in Namibia by Anne Schröder Pdf

The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume brings together most scholars actively involved in the research on English in Namibia from various linguistic fields to present their current research. It covers a wide range of linguistic issues, such as empirical analyses on various levels of linguistic description and use, as well as the application of diverse methodologies, from questionnaire surveys, sociolinguistic interviews and focus group discussions, to corpus linguistics, linguistic landscaping, and digital ethnography. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of articles and in-depth discussions of this emerging variety of World Englishes.

Author : Hans Lindquist
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748631407

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Corpus Linguistics and the Description ofEnglish by Hans Lindquist Pdf

A lively hands-on introduction to the use ofelectronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this bookprovides an ideal introduction for university students of English at theintermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses willfind the book a particularly valuable guide.After introducing corpora andthe rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authorpresents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary,collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, maleand female language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown howthe web can be used as a source for linguistic investigations. Each chapterhas study questions, exercises and suggestions for further reading.Studentswill benefit from the book's*Clear language and structure *Well-definedterminology *Step-by-step instructions *Generous, up-to-date exemplificationfrom different varieties of English around the world *Accompanying web-pagewith exercises and updated information about freely accessiblecorpora.

Author : Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135621476

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Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education by Shondel J. Nero Pdf

This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others. The number of such students is increasing as a result of the spread of English, internal and global migration, and increased educational access. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education offers: *a sociohistorical perspective on language spread and variation; *analysis of related issues such as language attitudes, identities, and prescribed versus actual language use; and *practical suggestions for pedagogy. Pedagogical features: Key points at the beginning of each chapter help focus the reader and provide a framework for reading, writing, reflection, and discussion; chapter-end questions for discussion and reflective writing engage and challenge the ideas presented and encourage a range of approaches in dealing with language diversity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume invite educators, researchers, and students, across the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English, literacy, and language education, to begin to consider and adopt context-specific policies and practices that will improve the language development and academic performance of linguistically diverse students.