Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context. A sociohistorical and structural analysis.

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999.
Colección:Varieties of English Around the World.
Temas:
Pidgin English > Ghana.
Pidgin languages > Africa, West > History.
Pidgin-english (Langue) > Ghāna.
Pidgin English
Pidgin languages
West Africa
Ghana
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • GHANAIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH IN ITS WEST AFRICAN CONTEXT A SOCIOHISTORICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Ghana
  • 1.2 Previous studies on Ghanaian Pidgin English
  • 1.3 A note on the data used in the present study
  • 1.4 Scope of the work
  • 2. A sociohistorical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast
  • 2.1 The period of Portuguese dom inance, 1470-1600
  • 2.1.1 The nature of Afro-Portuguese contact on the Gold Coast
  • 2.1.2 Early restructured Portuguese in West Africa.
  • 2.1.2.1 Evidence from early travel accounts: the Lingua Franca connection?
  • 2.1.2.2 Early West African Pidgin Portuguese: linguistic data
  • 2.1.2.3 The use of Pidgin Portuguese after the period of Portuguesedominance
  • 2.1.2.4 Summary: early West African Pidgin Portuguese as a trade jargon
  • 2.2 The arrival of the Dutch and English in the 17th century
  • 2.2.1 The conditions of Afro-European coexistence in pre-colonial LowerGuinea
  • 2.2.2 Early restructured English on the Gold Coast
  • 2.2.3 The users of early restructured English on the Gold Coast.
  • 2.2.3.1 Free Africans in periodic contact with anglophone traders
  • 2.2.3.2 Africans in the service of whites
  • 2.2.3.3 The mulattos
  • 2.3 Summary: early West African Pidgins as jargons
  • 3. Excursus: The settlementof the Sierra Leone peninsula, 1787-1850
  • 3.1 The main settler groups
  • 3.1.1 The Original Settlers
  • 3.1.2 The Nova Scotians
  • 3.1.3 The Jamaican Maroons
  • 3.1.4 The Liberated Africans
  • 3.2 Other population groups
  • 3.2.1 Europeans, indigenous Africans, and others
  • 3.2.2 The Krumen
  • 3.3 The linguistic ecology of early Sierra Leone colony society.
  • 4. The origin and developmentof West African Pidgin Englishes: linguistic data
  • 4.1 Earliest and most recent attestations of selected WAPE features
  • 4.1.1 Notes on the features
  • 4.1.1.1 Copular space
  • 4.1.1.2 Verb Phrase
  • 4.1.1.3 Noun Phrase
  • 4.1.1.4 Lexical and functional items
  • 4.1.2 Classifying the features: Krio (class 1) and WAPE (class 3) items
  • 4.1.3 Items independently attested in Krio and the WAPEs (class 2)
  • 4.2 Calculating affinities between restructured Englishes in West Africa andthe New World
  • 4.2.1 The transmission of Krio features in West Africa.
  • 4.3 Atlantic and beyond: Pacific Pidgin Englishes and ""Traders' English ""
  • 4.3.1 The nature of early English overseas jargon
  • 4.3.1.1 Processes determining the inclusion of features
  • 4.3.1.2 The geographical components of Traders' English
  • 5. The sociolinguistics of Ghanaian Pidgin English
  • 5.1 The languages of Ghana
  • 5.2 Ghanaian Pidgin English
  • 5.2.1 Uneducated/non-institutionalized Pidgin
  • 5.2.1.1 Uneducated Pidgin: a case study
  • 5.2.2 Educated/institutionalized Pidgin: secondary schools and universities
  • 5.2.2.1 Postscript: the spread of educated GhaPE.

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