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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"South African English"”.
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Computational Analyses of South African English – a Data-Driven Approach
South African English across its multiple sub-varieties remains relatively understudied and an inclusive study of the language across the sub-varieties will enable us to uncover words and types of words unique to South African English that have been adopted or donated between the sub-varieties. …
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Attitudes to English with particular reference to black South African English
South Africa recognises eleven official languages. Of those eleven, English is regarded as a lingua franca and as the language of business and education. For this reason, English is afforded significant status in South Africa (De Kadt, 1993; De Klerk & Bosch, 1993, 1995; Lazenby, 1996; De Klerk, …
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"Bitten-off things protruding" : the limitations of South African English poetry post-1948
In this thesis, the discussion of South African English poetry is undertaken in terms of critical questions to which the body of work, to date, has not been subjected. In the nineteen-seventies and -eighties, several anthologies of South African English poetry were published which, despite their …
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Black South African English in relation to other second-language Englishes of Africa
… of distinctive varieties of second language English in Africa has, by now, been long recognized. Such L2 Englishes are known to arise in situations where the socioeconomic value of English is high, but where restricted access to native speaker varieties of the language results in the …
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
The South African Chain Shift involved the raising of the short front vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in …
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Legal encouragement for salvage : an examination upon South African, English and German salvage law
… aspects of legal encouragement for salvors in English, South African, and German salvage laws. For this purpose, attention will be given to the questions of whether the present salvage laws in England, as the "mother"-country for maritime law, in South Africa, and in Germany encourage modem …
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Segmental phonology and Black South African English speakers : communicative success with standard dialect listeners
… the listener confusion which occurs when Black South African English (BSAE) speakers communicate a list of common English words to speakers of standard South African (StdSAE) English. BSAE and StdSAE subjects were grouped into 10 dyads. BSAE subjects read 120 monosyllabic English words to StdSAE …
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A sociophonetic investigation of ethnolinguistic differences in voice quality among young, South African English speakers
… quality between black and white speakers of South African English who had attended well-resourced middle-class schools. The principal objective of the study is to address the question of whether there is any acoustic evidence of such differences. The study then proceeds to describe such …
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The development of a modified 2 pair Dichotic Digit test recorded in a South African English Accent
… CAPD, but these tests are not valid for use in South Africa due mismatch in the language or accent of the test recording and the language spoken in South Africa as well as normative data that were collected in the United States of America. As such CAPD may remain undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or …
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Towards Validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
Background: South Africa is a country rich in diversity, with language constituting a large proportion of this diversity as the country has eleven official languages with Afrikaans, isiXhosa and South African English (SAE) being the provincial languages of the Western Cape. Research on language …
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Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban
… investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively. The research is socio-phonetic in its focus and therefore three variables, the PRICE, NURSE and KIT vowels of Wells’ …
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Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
… historical factors have introduced the use of South African English alongside Cape Muslim Afrikaans in this speech community. The goal of this study was to provide insight into the nature of bilingual talk in the Bo-Kaap community, and to make a useful contribution to the growing body of …
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Negligently inflicted pure economic loss in the case of defective buildings: a comparison of South African, English and German Law
The problem of liability for negligently inflicted pure economic loss appears in many fields of civil liability. Of course this debate does not stop in case of defective buildings after the negligent conduct of a builder or an inspector. The ultimate purchaser of a building or a third party may …
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Constituting grammar and its pedagogy : the reform of the South African English Home Language intermediate phase curriculum between 1997 and 2012
Post-apartheid curriculum reform in South Africa has impacted the constitution and organisation of English language knowledge, including grammatical knowledge and its pedagogy. Additionally, changes in theoretical viewpoints on grammar instruction and early literacy instruction have influenced the …
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Feasibility of individualised synthetic speech for children with complex communication needs in three South African languages (South African English, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa)
… creating natural-sounding synthetic voices for South African children with CCN by using open-source speech synthesis software, taking into consideration the cultural assumptions and ideologies that influence the development of AAC systems for individuals with diverse backgrounds. The four …
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Sociophonetics and class differentiation: A study of working- and middle- class English in Cape Town's coloured community
… in the monophthongal vowel system of Coloured South African English in Cape Town. The changes are largely a result of South Africa's post-apartheid socio-educational reform. A detailed acoustic description highlights the most salient changes (compared with earlier reports of the variety), …
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Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation
… to give a broad description of the variety of English used by first-language (White) Afrikaans-speakers in the Western Cape. The first chapter outlines the aims of the thesis with respect to the study of English as a world phenomenon. Important work on other varieties of English, notably that …
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… focusing on three salient phonetic markers of South African English, namely the GOOSE, BATH and PRICE lexical sets (Wells 1982). Acoustic analysis of these vowels was done using a computer software programme, Praat, to record a total of 4410 tokens for the 20 speakers. The second level of …
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… focusing on three salient phonetic markers of South African English, namely the GOOSE, BA TH and PRICE lexical sets (Wells 1982). Acoustic analysis of these vowels was done using a computer software programme, Praat, to record a total of 4410 tokens for the 20 speakers. The second level of …
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And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech
… examples of ongoing historical changes in English. This has been documented internationally, but the degree to which this change has taken place in South African English remains understudied. This dissertation conducts an apparent-time study of quotative systems in Cape Town. In this study, …
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