Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate
Edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo
[Varieties of English Around the World, G59] 2016. vi, 280 pp.
Bebwa Isingoma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bebwa Isingoma plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2022 Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 220–248 | Article
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English.… read more
2019 Chapter 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 293–328 | Chapter
This paper discusses corpus linguistics as one method to investigate the lexicon of Ugandan English, which is characterised by borrowing, calquing, semantic extension, narrowing, and shift. It documents how analysing a well-balanced corpus, such as the Uganda component of the International Corpus… read more
2016 Lexical borrowings and calques in Ugandan English Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 149–172 | Article
The chapter highlights cases of lexical borrowings and calques observable in
Ugandan English. Both basic lexical items and nonbasic items have been borrowed
and calqued from indigenous Ugandan (especially Bantu) languages, in
order to not only provide basic lexical items, but also to provide extra… read more
2016 The use of ditransitive constructions in Ugandan English Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article
The chapter shows substantial divergences between Ugandan English and
Standard British/American English in the use of ditransitive constructions.
For example, while a benefactive double object construction and its equivalent
prepositional phrase construction, e.g. I’ve poured you some tea and I’ve… read more
2016 Ugandan English - challenges to, and food for, current theories Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2016 Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: Facts and issues Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 19–50 | Article
This chapter analyses the present-day language situation in Uganda with the
aim of providing a description of the diversity of Uganda’s languages, and the
space of English therein. It examines the degrees of development and vitality,
as expressed through speaker numbers and the availability of… read more
2016 The use of the progressive in Ugandan English Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 173–200 | Article
This study explores the use of the progressive in spoken Ugandan English.
Like in many other second language varieties of English, the progressive is
used with a high frequency, predominantly in the present or past tense active.
Detailed analyses show that the most frequent uses of the progressive… read more