A Dictionary of South African English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of South African English write by Jean Branford. This book was released on 1987. A Dictionary of South African English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Containing over 5000 entries, this enlarged and revised edition provides a wealth of new and updated words borrowed from Afrikaans, Malay, township slang, Indian Khosian and Bantu languages, including words influenced by the political upheavals of recent years. Branford offers phonetic transcripts for words derived from other languages, and for most entries, he gives etymologies, grammatical usages, and helpful quotes.
Dictionary of South Africa English Historical Principles
Dictionary of South Africa English Historical Principles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictionary of South Africa English Historical Principles write by Penny Silva. This book was released on 1996-09-01. Dictionary of South Africa English Historical Principles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a historical record of the development of English in a multi-lingual and multicultural society.
A Dictionary of South African Indian English
A Dictionary of South African Indian English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of South African Indian English write by Rajend Mesthrie. This book was released on 2010. A Dictionary of South African Indian English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South African Indian English (SAIE) is a variety of English in the Linguistics literature. It reflects the source of Indian subcontinent languages from Indian migrants to South Africa in the late 19th century, as well as colonial and apartheid influences and those of local African languages.
The Paperbook of South African English Poetry
The Paperbook of South African English Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Paperbook of South African English Poetry write by Michael Chapman. This book was released on 1986. The Paperbook of South African English Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Lexicon of South African Indian English
A Lexicon of South African Indian English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Lexicon of South African Indian English write by Rajend Mesthrie. This book was released on 1992. A Lexicon of South African Indian English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scholarly and entertaining study of words, phrases and idioms which reflects the diverse social and linguistic currents within which the Indian South African community has developed. It focuses on the effects of language contact in borrowings, grammatical interference and semantic shifts as speakers of Indic languages came into contact with speakers of English, Afrikaans, Fanagalo and African languages. It focuses on the Indic lexical items which are common to all speakers, irrespective of whether their ancestral language was Tamil or Bhojpuri; on the lexical items restricted to particular subgroups depending on their ancestral language. It further annotates the idiomatic and slang phrases found principally amongst speakers of SAIE and identifies the specific grammatical and phonological features which characterise this variety of English. Mesthrie's work shows clearly both the distinctiveness of SAIE and its South Africanness. This lexicon provides an invaluable source of comparison with Indian English, the Creoles of the Caribbean, and with the linguistic experience of other overseas South Asian communities. "Mesthrie's A Lexicon of South African Indian English, described by the author as a supplement (and also complement) to the 1980 edition of A Dictionary of South African English (ed. Jean Branford) is a valuable and interesting endeavour in its own right. It is a valid contribution to the study of language and should appeal to students of linguistics, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians. The Lexicon also adds to the growing body of works on the contributions of the Indian South Africans." Rambhajun Sitaram, Lexicos Rajend Mesthrie was born in Durban, South Africa. He wrote his doctorate on the transformation of Bhojpuri in South Africa. He currently teaches linguistics at the University of Cape Town.
