Christiane Meierkord

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christiane Meierkord plays a role.

Titles

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.
Subjects English linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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
Isingoma, Bebwa and Christiane Meierkord 2019 Chapter 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complementsCorpus 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
Isingoma, Bebwa and Christiane Meierkord 2016 Ugandan English - challenges to, and food for, current theoriesUgandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
This chapter examines whether Luganda influence on Ugandan English can be confirmed at the level of phonology or whether Ugandan English is the result of Interactions across ethnic Englishes in the sense of Meierkord (2012). It presents the results of spectrographic analyses of the lexical sets… read more
This chapter investigates speech acts in Ugandan English social letters to uncover how English is being adapted to meet the cultural conventions of its Ugandan users. To this end, directive speech acts, particularly requests, will be analysed and compared to other second language varieties of… read more
Meierkord, Christiane 2016 A social history of English(es) in UgandaUgandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate, Meierkord, Christiane, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo (eds.), pp. 51–72 | Article
As is the case with the other countries that linguists have discussed under the name East Africa, i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, English came to the area that makes up Uganda today relatively late. This chapter traces the history of English in the country. It describes where speakers of… read more
Namyalo, Saudah, Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord 2016 Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: Facts and issuesUgandan 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
Ssempuuma, Jude, Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord 2016 The use of the progressive in Ugandan EnglishUgandan 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
Meierkord, Christiane 2004 Syntactic variation in interactions across international EnglishesEnglish World-Wide 25:1, pp. 109–132 | Article
Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When… read more
Meierkord, Christiane 2002 Recurrent sequences and mental processesRethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 99–119 | Article
Meierkord, Christiane and Anita Fetzer 2002 IntroductionRethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 1–33 | Article