Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia.

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Esimaje, Alexandra [Browse]
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Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Preface / Doug Biber
  • Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
  • 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston
  • 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut
  • 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje
  • 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl
  • 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato
  • 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green
  • 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke
  • 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van Rooy
  • 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah
  • 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch
  • 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato
  • 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord
  • 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo
  • 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied
  • 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks
  • Index.
ISBN
90-272-6293-4
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