Klerk, Vivian A De. <br/><br/>
Corpus linguistics and world Englishes :   an analysis of Xhosa English / 
Vivian A De Klerk. 
 - London :  Continuum,  2009. 
 - xiv, 247 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Corpus and discourse ;  3 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction; SECTION A: THE CONTEXT; 1: Xhosa English as a World English; 2: The need for norms: building a spoken corpus; 3: The structure of the Xhosa English corpus; SECTION B: CORPUS STUDIES & SOCIOLINGUISTIC INSIGHTS; 4: Topic choices and lexical characteristics; 5: The role of APPRAISAL resources in discussing AIDS; 6: Formulaic utterances; 7: Codeswitching in the corpus; 8: Informal conversation versus legal discourse; SECTION C: CORPUS STUDIES & LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION; 9: The syntactic features of Xhosa English Chapter; 10: The use of discourse markers: the case of 'actually'; 11: Procedural meanings of 'well' in the corpus.; 12: Expressing levels of intensity in Xhosa English; SECTION D: OVERVIEW; 13: The future of Xhosa English: Social and Educational issues; References; Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441186553 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Globlization.<br/>Language and languages--Variation.<br/>Xhosa (African people)--Languages.