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English & related pidgins/creoles

 

English as official language
English as official language
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General, miscellaneous back to top »

International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA).
www.ku.edu/~idea

The Speech Accent Archive. George Mason University.
accent.gmu.edu/index.php

Peter Alan Wilson Cook, 1953
The place of African languages and English both in school education and in education out of school (PDF). From: African languages and English in education: a report of a meeting of experts on the use in education of African languages in relation to English, where English is the accepted second language, held at Jos, Nigeria, November 1952.
unesdoc.unesco.org

Gordon P. McGregor, 1971
English in Africa: a guide to the teaching of English as a second language, with special reference to the post-primary school stages (PDF). UNESCO source books on curricula and methods, 4. Heinemann. London & Paris.
unesdoc.unesco.org

Kweku A. Sampson, 1995
Le rôle linguistique du français et de l'anglais dans l'expression des concepts techniques et semi-techniques dans les langues africaines (PDF). Meta, v. 40, p. 73-80.
www.erudit.org/revue/meta/1995/v40/n1/004024ar.pdf

UNESCO, 1953
African languages and English in education: a report of a meeting of experts on the use in education of African languages in relation to English, where English is the accepted second language, held at Jos, Nigeria, November 1952 (PDF). Educational studies and documents, 2. UNESCO.
unesdoc.unesco.org

English in Cameroon + Kamtok back to top »

Samuel Ngwa Atechi, 2004
The intelligibility of native and non-native English speech: a comparative analysis of Cameroon English and American and British English (PDF). Dissertation. Technische Universität Chemnitz.
archiv.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/2004/0088/data/atechi_intelligibility.pdf

Edmond Biloa, 2003
L'influence du français sur l'anglais camerounais (PDF). Sudlangues: revue electronique internationale de sciences du langage, n. 2 (48).
www.sudlangues.sn/IMG/pdf/doc-48.pdf

Augustin Simo Bobda, 2001
Varying statuses and perceptions of English in Cameroon: a diachronic and synchronic analysis. Trans: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, n. 11.
www.inst.at/trans/11Nr/bobda11.htm

Balbina Ebong, 2004
The use of indigenous techniques of communication for language learning: the case of Cameroon (PDF). Dissertation. Technische Universität Chemnitz.
archiv.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/2004/0114/data/ebong_indigeneoustechniques.pdf

George Echu, 2002
Multilingualism as a resource: the lexical appropriation of Cameroon indigenous languages by English and French. Trans: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, n. 13.
www.inst.at/trans/13Nr/echu13.htm

George Echu, 2003
Influence of Cameroon Pidgin English on the linguistic and cultural development of the French language (PDF). IULC (Indiana University Linguistics Club) working papers online 03-03.
www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/pdfs/03-echu03.pdf

Jean-Paul Kouega, 2004
Influence of contacts between Western and African cultures on English in Cameroon. Trans: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, n. 15, section 7.1.
www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/07_1/kouega15.htm

Jean Gilbert Leoue, 1996
Nominal determination: focus on a few operations in Cameroon Pidgin English (PDF). MA thesis. University of Paris-3.
etdindividuals.dlib.vt.edu:9090/archive/00000122

A.N. Neba, E.F. Chibaka, G.G. Atindogbé, 2006
Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) as a tool for empowerment and national development (PDF). African study monographs, v. 27, p. 39-61.
jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/root_e.htm

Aloysius Ngefac, 2006
Linguistic variants as signals of social hierarchy: the ambiguous situation of Cameroon. PhiN (Philologie in Netz), v. 35, p. 25-32.
web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin35/p35t2.htm

Daniel A. Nkemleke, 2005
Must and should in Cameroon English (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 14 (1), p. 43-67.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu, 2006
Politeness strategies in colloquial Cameroon English: focus on three pragmatic particles, "na", "ya" and "eihn" (PDF). From: Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 536-544.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Bonaventura Sala, Aloysius Ngefac, 2006
What's happening to Cameroon Pidgin? The depidginisation process in Cameroon Pidgin English (PDF). PhiN (Philologie in Netz), v. 36, p. 31-43.
web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin36/p36t3.htm

Loreto Todd, Martin Jumbam, Herbert Wamey
Kamtok = Cameroon Pidgin.
www.une.edu.au/langnet/cameroon.htm

English in Ghana back to top »

Joseph B.A. Afful, 2007
Address forms and variation among university students in Ghana (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 16, p. 179-196.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Kari Dako, 2002
Student Pidgin (SP): the language of the educated male elite (PDF). Research review of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, new series, v. 18.2, p. 53-62.
digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/index.cfm

Charles Owu-Ewie, 2006
The language policy of education in Ghana: a critical look at the English-only language policy of education (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

English in Kenya back to top »

Diana M. Hudson-Ettle, 1998
Grammatical subordination strategies in differing text types in the English spoken and written in Kenya. Dissertation. Technische Universität Chemnitz.
www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/chairs/linguist/real/independent/eafrica/Diss_Diana/index.htm

English in/on Mauritius back to top »

Satish Kumar Mahadeo, 1999
English, colonial to post-colonial: the problematics of writing in English in Mauritius. From: Language, society and culture, v. 4.
www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL

Satish Kumar Mahadeo, 1999
The English language and social inequality: towards a re-evaluation of the role of English in Mauritius. From: Language, society and culture, v. 5.
www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL

Satish Kumar Mahadeo, 2004
History of English and French languages in Mauritius: a study in language and power. From: Language, society and culture, v. 14.
www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL

Satish Kumar Mahadeo, 2006
English language teaching in Mauritius: a need for clarity of vision regarding English language policy. From: Language, society and culture, v. 18.
www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL

English in Namibia, Namlish back to top »

(Anonymous)
'Namlish' goes Wiki. New era (Windhoek), August 17, 2007.
www.newera.com.na/archives.php?id=17179

English in Nigeria + Nigerian Pidgin English back to top »

A sample of Nigerian Pidgin provided by the Associated Press.
wire.ap.org/APpackages/english/pidgin.html

Wale Adegbite, Akin Odebunmi, 2006
Discourse tact in doctor-patient intercations in English: an anlysis of diagnosis in medical communicatin in Nigeria (PDF). From: Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 499-519.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Akin Adetunji, 2006
Inclusion and exclusion in political discourse: deixis in Olusegun Obasanjo's speeches (PDF). Journal of language and linguistics, v. 5, p. 177-191.
www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/5_2/adetunji.htm

Amidu A. Afolabi, Moji A. Olateju, 2006
Teaching English relative clauses to second language learners of English (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 2 February 2006, p. 1-23.
www.morphologyonline.com

Tunde Ajiboye, 1998
Les emprunts français et la presse anglophone: l'exemple du Nigéria. Le français en Afrique: revue du réseau des observatoires du français contemporain en Afrique, n. 12.
www.unice.fr/ILF-CNRS/ofcaf/12/12.html

Akinmade T. Akande, 2003
Acquisition of inflectional morphemes by Nigeria learners of English language (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 12, p. 310-326.
www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol12num3/akande2.pdf

Akinmade T. Akande, 2005
Morphological errors in the English usage of some Nigerian learners (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 3 August 2005, p. 1-25.
www.morphologyonline.com

Eric Amana Anchimbe, 2006
Coping with meaning changes in a West African English language classroom (PDF). Journal of language and learning, v. 4, p. 50-62.
www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/jllearn/4_1/anchimbe.htm

Babawilly
Dictionary of Pidgin English words and phrases.
www.ngex.com/personalities/babawilly/dictionary/default.htm

Roger M. Blench, 2003
A dictionary of Nigerian English (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm

Caitlin Dillon, 2003
Verbs of motion in Nigerian Pidgin English: manner, direction, and serial verb constructions (PDF). IULC (Indiana University Linguistics Club) working papers online 03-04.
www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/pdfs/03-dillon04.pdf

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2006
"The" as derivational discourse morpheme (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 16 May 2006, p. 1-11.
www.morphologyonline.com

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2006
Nigerian English: a morpholectal classification (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 29 October 2006, p. 1-16.
www.morphologyonline.com

Ulrike Gut, 2001
The prosody of Nigerian English (PDF). Paper presented at TAPS (Typology of African Prosodic Systems), University of Bielefeld, May 2001.
www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/TAPS/Gut.pdf

Kelechukwu Uchechukwu Ihemere, 2006
A basic description and analytic treatment of noun clauses in Nigerian Pidgin (PDF). From: Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 296-313.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Charles C. Mann
Polysemic functionality of prepositions in pidgins and creoles: the case of "fo" in Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED397679)

Charles C. Mann, 1993
The sociolinguistic status of Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin: an overview (PDF). International journal of the sociology of language, v. 100/101, p. 167-178.
eric.ed.gov (ED397680)

Bidemi O. Okanlawon, 2007
The English nominal group and shop-naming in a Nigerian university community (PDF). SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English) journal of theoretical linguistics, v. 4, 2, p. 32-43.
www.skase.sk

Moji A. Olateju, A.T. Akande, O.T. Akinwale, 2005
Morphological processes in product naming by trado-medical practitioners in Nigeria (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 2 September 2005, p. 1-14.
www.morphologyonline.com

L. Oladipo Salami, Akinmade Timothy Akande, 2006
Aspects of the grammar of the spoken English of a Yoruba stroke patient (PDF). SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English) journal of theoretical linguistics, v. 3, 1, p. 25-37.
www.skase.sk

L. Oladipo Salami, Obafemi Awolowo, 2006
Use and attitude toward English taboo words among young adults in a Nigerian university. From: Language, society and culture, v. 17.
www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL

Rotimi Taiwo, Foluke Salami, 2007
Discourse acts in antenatal clinic literacy classroom in south-western Nigeria. Linguistik online, v. 31, p. 25-40.
www.linguistik-online.de/31_07/salamiTaiwo.html

Yisa Kehinde Yusuf, 2002
Sexism, English and Yoruba. Linguistik online, v. 11, p. 7-23.
www.linguistik-online.de/11_02/yusuf.html

English in Sierra Leone + Krio back to top »

Krio (Sierra Leone) sound files at the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive.
archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/main2.htm

Peter C. Anderson
400 proverbs in Krio, Sierra Leone.
www.sierra-leone.org/proverbs.html

C. Chanard
Krio - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Malcolm Awadajin Finney, 2002
Substratal influence on the morphosyntactic properties of Krio (PDF), as HTML. Linguistic discovery (online), v. 2 (2), p. 58-83.
journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/document/532

B. Akíntúndé Oyètádé, Victor Fashole-Luke, 2007
Sierra Leone: Krio and the quest for national integration (PDF). From: Language and national identity in Africa. Edited by Andrew Simpson. Oxford University Press.
eprints.soas.ac.uk/archive/00000181

Dee A. Worman, 2006
The metapragmatics of saying in Sierra Leone Krio theatre (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

English in South Africa + South African English back to top »

Dictionary Unit for South African English. Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/dsae

Neville Alexander, 2000
English unassailable but unattainable: the dilemma of language policy in South African education (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 3. University of Cape Town.
web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OP.htm

Diane Lesley Bowers, 2006
Grammatical constraints and motivations for English/Afrikaans codeswitching: evidence from a local radio talk show (PDF). MA thesis. University of the Western Cape.
etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7082_1190370125

Ondene van Dulm, 2002
Constraints on South African English-Afrikaans intra sentential code switching: a Minimalist approach (PDF). From: SPIL (Stellenbosch papers in linguistics) Plus, v. 31, p. 63-90.
academic.sun.ac.za/linguist/SPIL/SPILPLUS31.htm

Kate van Gass, 2002
Grammatical constraints on intra sentential code switching: evidence from English-Afrikaans code switching (PDF). From: SPIL (Stellenbosch papers in linguistics) Plus, v. 31, p. 91ff.
academic.sun.ac.za/linguist/SPIL/SPILPLUS31.htm

David L. Gough, 1996
English in South Africa.
www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/dsae/GOUGH.HTML

Fritz Juengling, 1998
A bibliography of English in South Africa. From: Language matters, v. 29, p. 179-255.
www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/dsae/SAFENG.HTML

Vivian de Klerk, 1999
Black South African English: where to from here? (PDF). From: World Englishes, v. 18, p. 311-324.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011587

Vivian de Klerk, 2003
Towards a norm in South African Englishes: the case for Xhosa English (PDF). From: World Englishes, v. 22, p. 463-481.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011583

Vivian de Klerk, 2005
The use of actually in spoken Xhosa English: a corpus study (PDF). From: World Englishes, v. 24, p. 275-288.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d10115883

Vivian de Klerk, 2005
Codeswitching, borrowing, and mixing in a corpus of Xhosa English (PDF). From: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, v. 9, p. 597-614.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011582

Vivian A. de Klerk, 2005
Procedural meanings of "well" in a corpus of Xhosa English (PDF). From: Journal of pragmatics, v. 37, p. 1183-1205.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011579

Vivian de Klerk, Gary P. Barkhuizen, 2002
English in the prison services: a case of breaking the law (PDF). From: World Englishes, v. 21, p. 9-22.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011585

Vivian de Klerk, Barbara Bosch, 1996
Nicknames as sex-role stereotypes (PDF). From: Sex roles (New York), v. 35, p. 525-541.
hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011586

Rajend Mesthrie, 2006
Undeletions in Black South African English (PDF). From: SPIL (Stellenbosch papers in linguistics) Plus, v. 34, p. 69ff.
academic.sun.ac.za/linguist/SPIL/SPILPLUS34.htm

Sue Ollerhead, Johan Oosthuizen, 2005
Meaning-focused vs form-focused L2 instruction: implications for writing educational materials for South African learners of English (PDF). From: Stellenbosch papers in linguistics, v. 36, p. 59-84.
academic.sun.ac.za/linguist/SPIL/SPIL36.htm

P.L. Phaahla, 2006
Knowledge production in what language? The hegemonic use of English as a language of commerce and industry from a South African perspective (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Wendy Sue Rodseth, 2005
The interdependence hypothesis: exploring the effects on English writing skills following an expository writing course in Zulu (PDF). MA thesis. University of South Africa.
etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/ETD-desc/describe?urn=etd-08192005-101810

Penny Silva
South African English: oppressor or liberator?.
www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/dsae/MAVEN.HTML

Baba Primrose Tshotsho, 2006
An investigation into English second language academic writing strategies for black students at the Eastern Cape Technikon (PDF). PhD thesis. University of the Western Cape.
etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5702_1183703543

Rodrik Wade
Arguments for Black South African English as a distinct 'new' English.
www.und.ac.za/und/ling/archive/wade-03.html

Rodrik Wade, 1997
An investigation of the putative restandardisation of South African English in the direction of a "new" English, Black South African English. MA thesis. University of Natal, Durban.
www.und.ac.za/und/ling/archive/wade_str.html

English in Tanzania back to top »

S.T.M. Lukusa, 1996
A semantic prototype of the English word 'responsible' in Tanzanian usage (PDF). Utafiti, new series, v. 3.1, p. 145-160.
digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/index.cfm

Stephen Mugeta Neke, 2002
English in Tanzania (PDF). Dissertation. Ghent University.
hdl.handle.net/1854/338

H.R. Trappes-Lomax, 1985
English language teaching in Tanzania: a colloquium (PDF). Utafiti, v. 7.2, p. 11-26.
digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/index.cfm


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