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Ugandan English

9789027266439

9789027249197

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Ugandan English

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Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate.

1 online resource (288 pages).

Varieties of English Around the World ;

v.G59

Intro -- Ugandan English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Ugandan English\U+00a0\- challenges to, and food for, current theories -- 1. The state of research -- 2. English in Uganda\U+00a0\- A testing ground for current theories -- 3. Contents of this volume -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I. The context -- Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda's linguistic ecology: Facts and issues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multilingualism in Uganda\U+00a0\- facts and issues -- 2.1 Uganda's official languages amidst the country's linguistic diversity -- 3. The geographical and social space of Uganda's languages -- 3.1 The geographical spread of Uganda's languages -- 3.2 The social space of Uganda's languages -- 4. The functional status, vitality, development and endangerment of Uganda's languages -- 4.1 High domains and market value -- 4.2 Between formal and informal domains\U+00a0\- the media -- 4.3 Languages used as second languages -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Questionnaire -- A social history of English(es) in Uganda -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The history of English in Uganda -- 2.1 Early contacts with English before the protectorate -- 2.2 The 1892 civil war and the protectorate -- 2.3 Post World War\U+00a0\II to independence -- 2.4 Post independence -- 3. Conclusion: Uganda as a challenge to existing models -- References -- Part II. Functions of English in multilingual Uganda today -- The sociolinguistic situation of English in Uganda: A case of language attitudes and beliefs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and theoretical framework -- 3. The national language debate in Uganda -- 4. The role and status of English in postprotectorate Uganda: Language practices, choices and use -- 4.1 Language use on public and private signage -- 4.2 Language use in local government -- 4.3 English in popular culture.

1. Introduction -- 2. Politeness, culture and speech act realisation -- 2.1 Approaches to variation in linguistic politeness and culture -- 2.2 Research on politeness and speech acts in second language varieties of English -- 3. Politeness in Uganda and other African countries -- 3.1 Constituents of linguistic politeness -- 3.2 Linguistic politeness in Uganda -- 4. Data and methodology -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 Methodology -- 5. Explicit speech acts in Ugandan social letters and speech act verbs -- 5.1 Sentence structure and explicitness -- 5.2 Speech act types -- 6. Requests in Ugandan social letters -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part IV. Ugandan English and beyond -- Indian English in Uganda: The historical sociolinguistics of a migrant community -- 1. Social history -- 1.1 Pre-colonial times -- 1.2 Colonial era -- 1.3 Post-independence period -- 2. Sociolinguistic characteristics -- 3. Linguistic features -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Index.

4. Lexical borrowings in Ugandan English -- 4.1 Content-word borrowings in Ugandan English -- 4.2 Discourse marker borrowing in UgE -- 4.3 Morphemic borrowing in Ugandan English -- 5. Lexical calques in Ugandan English -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The use of the progressive in Ugandan English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Core, special and extended uses of the progressive in English -- 2.1 The core meaning of the progressive -- 2.2 Special uses of the progressive -- 2.3 Extended uses of the progressive -- 3. Previous studies of the extended use of the progressive in World Englishes -- 3.1 The progressive in African Englishes -- 3.2 The progressive in spoken versus written English -- 4. The progressive in Ugandan languages: Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, and Acholi-Lango -- 4.1 Tense and aspect in Luganda -- 4.2 Tense and aspect in Runyankole-Rukiga -- 4.3 Tense and aspect in Acholi-Lango -- 5. Data and methodology -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Frequency of the progressive in Ugandan English -- 6.2 Core and special uses of the progressive in Ugandan English -- 6.3 Extended uses of the progressive in Ugandan English -- 6.4 Uses of the progressive across the speakers of the three Ugandan first languages -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The use of ditransitive constructions in Ugandan English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ditransitive constructions -- 3. Data and methodology -- 3.1 Instruments and respondents -- 3.2 Materials for acceptability judgment tasks -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Results for the acceptability ratings -- 4.2 Examples of sentences gleaned from writings -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Double object construction in Ugandan English -- 5.2 Benefactive PPCs in Ugandan English -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Speech acts in Ugandan English social letters: Investigating the influence of sociocultural context.

4.4 Attitudes towards Luganda -- 5. Attitudes towards English and its use in Uganda -- 5.1 Attitudes influencing the intergenerational transmission of local languages -- 5.2 Attitudes towards English in the education domain -- 5.3 English for expressing one's social status -- 5.4 The growing prestige of Luganda -- 5.5 Attitudes towards Ugandan English -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Tensions between English medium and mother tongue education in rural Ugandan primary schools: An ethnographic investigation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The history of MT education in Uganda -- 3. English versus MTs in the language-in-education policy of Uganda -- 4. An ethnographic project in rural Ugandan primary schools: Methodological and theoretical issues -- 5. Tensions between English and the mother tongue -- 5.1 Tensions expressed in teachers' beliefs -- 5.2 Tensions in the classroom: Dealing with classroom rules -- 6. On the source of tensions between English and the MT -- 7. Final remarks -- References -- Part III. Features of Ugandan English -- Diphthongs in Ugandan English: Evidence for and against variety status and interactions across Englishes -- 1. Variation and Interactions across Englishes in Uganda -- 2. Diphthongs around the world and in Uganda -- 3. Diphthongs in first and second language varieties of English -- 3.1 Diphthongs in the history of English -- 3.2 Diphthongs in L1 varieties of English -- 3.3 Diphthongs in L2 Englishes -- 4. Data and methodology -- 4.1 Informants, setting and reading passage -- 4.2 Acoustic formant analyses -- 5. Results and discussion: Commonalities and particularities of Uganda's Englishes -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Amended Comma gets a cure text -- Lexical borrowings and calques in Ugandan English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Lexical borrowings and lexical calques in World Englishes.

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Ugandan English : Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate

9789027249197

English language--Dialects--Uganda.

Meierkord, Christiane.

Isingoma, Bebwa.

Namyalo, Saudah.

ProQuest (Firm)

20190225144500.0

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