Browsing by Subject "East African English"
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Constrained language: a multidimensional analysis of translated English and a non-native indigenised variety of English
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)Translation and non-native indigenised varieties of English are produced in contexts where heightened constraints operate on them. Recurrent features of translated language include explicitation, normalisation or ... -
Modelling narrativity in East African English
(North-West University, 2011)Narratives are the product of a basic human tendency to make sense of real or imagined experiences. The research question posed in the dissertation is: how is narrativity encoded in East African English? Can the narrativity ... -
Register differentiation in East African English: A multidimensional study
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2010)The article examines register variation in East African English by submitting the East African component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to a complete multidimensional analysis (Biber 1988). A six-factor model ...