Browsing Humanities by Subject "South African English"
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Lockdown language : online communication in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)Linguistic studies on South African Englishes and the multilingual repertoires of local citizens have been growing in recent years. Seminal work is being done to describe South African Englishes from phonological, ... -
Modality on trek : diachronic changes in written South African English across text and context
(North West University, 2014)This study describes the diachronic development of modality in South African English (henceforth SAfE) from the early 19th century up to its contemporary state (1820s to 1990s) in the registers of letters, news, fiction/narrative ... -
Regionality in white South African English : an acoustic dialectometric investigation
(2015)There is general consensus in the literature that White South African English (SAE hereafter) historically had a number of regional dialects; but the regional component to this variety was levelled in the mid-20th century. ... -
The role of editorial intervention in ongoing language variation and change in South African and Australian English
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The role of editorial intervention in written published texts has been noted by a number of researchers in areas of World Englishes as well as language variation and change. The widely held view of these scholars is that ... -
The vowels of South African English
(North-West University, 2008)This thesis provides a comparative analysis of vowel quality in South African English (SAE) using the following data: firstly, the existing impressionistic literature on SAE and other relevant accents of English, the ...