Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "South African English"
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Convergence and endonormativity at phase 4 of the dynamic model
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014)At Phase 4 of the Dynamic Model, Schneider (2007) postulates that a stable postcolonial English will gain acceptance in a country, and become endonormative, but it will also be perceived as homogenous. This paper argues ... -
The development of modals of obligation and necessity in white South African English through contact with Afrikaans
(Sage, 2014)This article draws attention to the uniqueness of modality in White South African English (WSAfE), when compared with other native English varieties. This uniqueness is found in the historical development of the modal ... -
Do the Modals of Black and White South African English Converge?
(Sage, 2014)Convergence between native and nonnative varieties, the so-called settler and indigenous strands of English in postcolonial settings, is a characteristic of the fourth phase in Schneider’s dynamic model of English. The ... -
Moet en must : 'n geval van Afrikaanse invloed op Suid-Afrikaanse Engels
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)This article investigates the effect of the unique contact situation between users of Afrikaans and the native variety of South African English (SAfE) on the propagation of the distinctive macro-and microsemantic properties ... -
Nursing the cure: a phonetic analysis of /ʊə/ in South African English
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)This article is focused on providing the results of a partially impressionistic and partially acoustic phonetic analysis of the CURE vowel (i.e. /ʊə/ as in cure, tour, sure) in South African English (SAfE) and, in ... -
South African English as a late 19th-century etraterritorial variety
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2012)his article argues that the external history of South African English (SAfE) points towards the merits of conceptualizing SAfE as the product of a three-stage koinéization process, the last stage of which takes place ...