Ghanaian pidgin English in its West African context : a sociohistorical and structural analysis / Magnus Huber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huber, Magnus.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series

Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pidgin English--Ghana.

Pidgin English.

Pidgin languages--Africa, West--History.

Pidgin languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

GHANAIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH IN ITS WEST AFRICAN CONTEXT A SOCIO-HISTORICAL 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 socio-historical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast; 2.1 The period of Portuguese dominance, 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 Portuguese dominance; 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 Lower Guinea; 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 mulattoes; 2.3 Summary: early West African Pidgins as jargons; 3. Excursus: The settlement of 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 development of 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 and the 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; 5.2.2.2 Other institutionalized varieties

Notes:

Updated and slightly rev. ed. of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Essen, 1998).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-54896-8

9786613861412

90-272-7296-4

OCLC:

808670844