LSEL 25: World Englishes and Creole Languages Today

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World Englishes and Creole Languages Today
Vol. II: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond
 
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann (eds.)
University of Yaounde I, University of Potsdam, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | Hunan Normal University
 
This book demonstrates, in the context of the Bobdian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Rajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein, Thorsten Brato, Hans-Georg Wolf & Arne Peters, Leslie Barratt, Akinmade Timothy Akande, Christian Mair & Bridget Fonkeu, John Victor Singler, Maria Mazzoli, Ogechi Florence Agbo & Ingo Plag, Ian Hancock, Aloysius Ngefac, Blasius Achiri-Taboh and Jemima Akosua Anderson. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work that Augustin Simo Bobda has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Bobdian thinking.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
Editors’ preface
 
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
Laudatio for Augustin Simo Bobda
 
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
World Englishes and creole languages today: Introduction
 
Part One: World Englishes and the Bobdian Thinking
 
Rajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein
Investigating possible changes to the TRAP vowel in Black South African English:
A (post)Bobdian analysis
 
Thorsten Brato
Studying vowels in African Englishes – Past, present, and future
 
Hans-Georg Wolf & Arne Peters
African witchcraft revisited:
New cognitive-sociolinguistic findings from a comparative perspective
 
Leslie Barrat
Strategies for infusing World Englishes throughout education
 
Akinmade Timothy
I am loving you: The use of stative verbs in the progressive form in some African Englishes
 
Part Two: Creole Languages and the Bobdian Thinking
 
Christian Mair & Bridget Fonokeu
See me see wahala? West African Pidgin in the German diaspora
 
John Victor Singler
Number marking in Liberian Kolokwa
 
Maria Mazzoli
Tone in Naija: An elicitation experiment on the prosodic realization of copular and
imperfective /de/ and its consequence for spelling
 
Ogechi Florence Agbo & Ingo Plag
Code-switching patterns of educated English–Nigerian Pidgin bilinguals in Nigeria
 
Ian Hancock
Nar oosie Creeo’ commot? Na usai Krio kohmoht? Na usay Krio kɔmɔt?
 
Aloysius Ngefac
Cameroon Creole English as a bridge between the past and the present:
Lessons for the sustainable development of Cameroon
 
Part Three: Beyond the Bobdian Thinking
 
Blasius Achiri-Taboh
Question tags seek pragmatic benefits, isn’t it?:
On the formal properties of question tags and how they function in World Englishes
 
Jemima Akosua Anderson
The pragmatics of excuse me to say in Ghanaian English
 

ISBN 978 3 96939 092 4 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 25. 270pp. 2022.

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