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Author | : Magnus Huber |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027248826 |
Download Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Author | : Kofi Abakah Sey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sophia A. Adjaye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Ghanaian English Pronunciation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is an analytical description of the English accent used by Ghanaians. The work begins with a socio-historical background of English use in Ghana, with a view to identifying the possible varieties of English introduced to the then Gold Coast.
Author | : Bernd Kortmann |
Publisher | : De Gruyter Mouton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9783110279887 |
Download The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.
Author | : Magnus Huber |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027272964 |
Download Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the “uneducated” variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Author | : Anna Cottrell |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9964701535 |
Download Once Upon a Time in Ghana Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanian market.
Author | : Stephen Kelman |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2012-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408815680 |
Download Pigeon English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.
Author | : Seth Nretia Essien |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3346932664 |
Download Examining Ghanaian English as a Regional Dialect Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject African Studies - Linguistics, University of Cape Coast (GRADUATE STUDIES DEPARTMENT), course: MASTER OF ARTS, ENGLISH, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to answer the following questions: What is the nature of Ghanaian English as a regional dialect? And how is Ghanaian English different from British English? "The Dynamic Model of the evolution of New Englishes" by Schnelder categorises Ghanaian English within the Outer Circle variety spoken in Britain’s former Gold Coast colony in West Africa. It concludes the debate of whether there is what is called Ghanaian English at all, citing other varieties in different part of the world as a backing. This work examines the extent to which Ghanaian English is truly Ghanaian, its uniqueness that characterizes it as a variety of English in terms of pronunciation, register and syntax. Statement of the Problem. Scholars and educated elites who have passed through the English medium education sometimes argue over the type of English spoken in Ghana as ungrammatical. Because of that it is not easy to condemn or criticize Ghanaian English as bad or wrong since it has moved far away from the colonial English that gave birth to it. Others even think it should not be considered English. The main aim of this study is to examine the extend of growth and deviation of GhE away from its origin in terms of register, semantics, phonetics among others. It also aims at finding out if in the midst of this variation, it could be considered English at all. In other words, it identifies the concept and characteristic of language variety, in this case, variety of English.
Author | : D. Annor Nimako |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tamara Pizzoli |
Publisher | : Love228 |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Boys |
ISBN | : 9780996001601 |
Download The Ghanaian Goldilocks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Set in Accra, Ghana, The Ghanaian Goldilocks is a modern twist on the classic Goldilocks fairytale. Like traditional kente cloth, West African culture and themes are woven seamlessly into the story of a boy with sun lightened hair named Kofi, better known to his friends and family as Goldilocks. Like the Goldilocks in the traditional tale, Kofi has been known to get into some trouble here and there, but it's an unexpected visit to a neighbor's house that teaches him a valuable lesson of a lifetime.