TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klerk,Vivian A De
TI  - Corpus linguistics and world Englishes : : an analysis of Xhosa English 
T2  - Corpus and discourse
SN  - 9781441186553
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Continuum
KW  - English language
KW  - Globlization
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Xhosa (African people)
KW  - Languages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -