Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context: A Sociohistorical and Structural AnalysisJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1999 M01 1 - 321 páginas This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs. |
Contenido
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 A sociohistorical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast | 9 |
The settlementof the Sierra Leone peninsula 17871850 | 59 |
linguistic data | 75 |
5 The sociolinguistics of Ghanaian Pidgin English | 135 |
6 A synchronicstructural description of Ghanaian Pidgin English | 165 |
7 Conclusion | 253 |
Appendices | 257 |
References | 287 |
305 | |
system requirements | 319 |
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