The Sociolinguistics of English in Africa - Einzelansicht

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This seminar will focus on the diverse historical, cultural and sociolinguistic realities of English in West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. It will combine the World Englishes paradigm with Variationist Sociolinguistic, Cognitive Sociolinguistic, Historical Sociolinguistic and Cultural Linguistic approaches in order to produce an understanding of the complex multilingual settings in which varieties of English in Africa have been developing.