Englishes in Africa

Mayowa Akinlotan works at the Linguistics Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany. He received a PhD in English Linguistics from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.

Table of contents


Acknowledgments vii





Foreword





Chapter 1: Thematic grounds in Englishes in Africa Today: An introduction





Chapter 2: Defying regime changes and new dispensations: The entrenchment and continuity of English hegemony in Zimbabwe





Chapter 3: English meets indigenous African language: A case study of English-Kasem bilinguals in Ghana





Chapter 4: English language of instruction and secondary school dichotomies in Kenya: A fresh look at classroom data





Chapter 5: The Institutionalisation and integration of English in a Multilingual South African Context





Chapter 6: Threat, empathy or (polite) request? The pragmatics of administrative letters in Cameroon English





Chapter 7: The influence of globalisation on English norms: the case of abidance to British spelling in Tanzania


Chapter 8: How do Nigerian speakers of Nigerian English think of Nigerian English? A case for perceptions, awareness and attitudes to Englishes in Africa


Chapter 9: English in the expanding circle of Morocco: A sociolinguistic exploration

“This book is different in that it opens a range of other topics of research that erupt when one thinks ‘from Africa’ and considers Englishes as African languages in all their functions. In this sense it is original and could be considered as seminal in a growing field.”
—Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden University

“The present volume, which brings together African scholars to present their research into African varieties of English, is a welcome and much needed addition to the World Englishes canon.”
—Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt