Kenyan English -

Kenyan English

Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudes
Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4108-3 (ISBN)
95,95 inkl. MwSt
This volume treats the sociolinguistic reality of Kenyan English. The contributors give the readers a rare glance into various contexts of English language use, such as school classrooms, radio stations, an urban pulpit, and a multilingual family setting.
Kenyan English: Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudes focuses on the unique issues that concern language researchers in Kenya and elsewhere. Edited by Martha M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha, the collection examines the English language forms and usages to describe the reality of Kenyan English use. The contributors address questions such as: What are the characteristics that distinguish Kenyan English from other national varieties? How is English taught, and what impact does that kind of teaching have on learner proficiency? What is the place of English in mass media, in politics, in the churches, and in multilingual homes? The contributors, all experienced language practitioners based in Kenya or currently conducting language-related research in Kenya, bring fresh perspectives to the topic at hand and give readers a glance into contexts that have not yet been addressed in this way. They highlight the sociolinguistic reality of the English language in present-day Kenya and raise questions that will prompt further research.

Martha M. Michieka is professor in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University. Evans Gesura Mecha is senior lecturer of theoretical linguistics at Kisii University.

Introduction: Kenyan English or Kenyan Englishes?

Martha. M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha

Chapter 1: An Empirical Study of Regional Variations in the Kenyan English Vowel System

Peter Nyansera Otieno

Chapter 2: The Kenyan English Accent: Segmental Features

Joshua Itumo and Martin C. Njoroge

Chapter 3: Error or flavor: An Account of the Lexical, Phrasal, and Syntactic Character of Fossilize Errors in Kenyan English Grammar

Ann Hildah Gatakaa Kinyua

Chapter: 4: Teaching English in Kenya: Reforms and Challenges in Early Years Education

Benard Omenge Nyatuka,

Chapter 5: English across the Curriculum in Kenya: The Reality in Primary School Classrooms and Implications on Epistemic Access

Peter Mose

Chapter 6: English Language Proficiency Among Secondary School Learners in Kenya: A Case of One Kenyan Rural Sub County

Daniel Nyongesa Khaemba and Eucabeth Ong’au- Mong’are

Chapter 7: Patterns of English Use in Kiswahili-Based Kenyan Mass Media

Sarah Marjie

Chapter 8: The English Language and Media Reporting on Devolution in Rural Kenya

Nicholas Anyuor and Omukule Emojong

Chapter 9: Pulpit English in Kenya: Examples of Mediatized Sermons in Kenya

Reuben Kigame and Leonora Anyango

Chapter 10: The Shadow of English: Multilingual Parents and Language Choice in Urban Kenya

Leonora Anyango

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Leonora Anyango, Nicholas Anyuor, Omukule Emojong
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 239 mm
Gewicht 508 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-7936-4108-0 / 1793641080
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4108-3 / 9781793641083
Zustand Neuware
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