Description
Book SynopsisThe book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses in detail the sociolinguistic situation in contemporary Kenya based on Labov’s extra-linguistic parameters and the results of a customized survey carried out by the author in Kenya. Furthermore, it identifies and describes characteristic stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of English in Kenya on the basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The theoretical framework employs Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes and an effort is made to put the amount of variation found in the ICE into a wider context of other varieties of English around the world.
Table of ContentsContents: History and status of English in Kenya – Language contact and its consequences – Multilingual Kenya and sociolinguistic parameters – International Corpus of English – Formality of English in Kenya – Kiswahili borrowings – Characteristic morphological and syntactic features – Postcolonial varieties of English.
