An Introduction to West African Pidgin English
Author | : David Dwyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : David Dwyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David J. Dwyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Magnus Huber |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027248826 |
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 | : David Dwyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Pidgin English |
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Author | : Gilbert D. Schneider |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Anna Barbag-Stoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Pidgin English |
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Author | : Gilbert D. Schneider |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Loreto Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780951669808 |
Author | : Rebecca N. Agheyisi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Loreto Todd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317549937 |
'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an English translation facing the original Pidgin text. Notes are provided on each tale with the intention of illuminating some of their unique stylistic and linguistic patterns. The tales are often witty, never protracted, and are pleasurable in their own right. They also provide linguistic and folkloristic material not available elsewhere. In a lengthy introduction, Dr Todd discusses the history of Cameroon and the development and use of Pidgin English there. A simple grammar of Pidgin English is included to aid scholars not already familiar with the language to make full use of the Pidgin texts.