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Kenyan English : domains of use, forms, and users' attitudes / edited by Martha M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Kenya.
- English language.
- English language--Kenya.
- Kenya--Languages.
- Kenya.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- This volume treats the sociolinguistic reality of Kenyan English. The contributors give the readers a rare glance into various contexts of English language use, such as school classrooms, radio stations, an urban pulpit, and a multilingual family setting.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Kenyan English or Kenyan Englishes? / Martha. M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha
- An Empirical Study of Regional Variations in the Kenyan English Vowel System / Peter Nyansera Otieno
- The Kenyan English Accent: Segmental Features / Joshua Itumo and Martin C. Njoroge
- Error or flavor: An Account of the Lexical, Phrasal, and Syntactic Character of Fossilize Errors in Kenyan English Grammar / Ann Hildah Gatakaa Kinyua
- Teaching English in Kenya: Reforms and Challenges in Early Years Education / Benard Omenge Nyatuka,
- English across the Curriculum in Kenya: The Reality in Primary School Classrooms and Implications on Epistemic Access / Peter Mose
- English Language Proficiency Among Secondary School Learners in Kenya: A Case of One Kenyan Rural Sub County / Daniel Nyongesa Khaemba and Eucabeth Ong'au- Mong'are
- Patterns of English Use in Kiswahili-Based Kenyan Mass Media / Sarah Marjie
- The English Language and Media Reporting on Devolution in Rural Kenya / Nicholas Anyuor and Omukule Emojong
- Pulpit English in Kenya: Examples of Mediatized Sermons in Kenya
- Reuben Kigame and Leonora Anyango
- Chapter 10: The Shadow of English: Multilingual Parents and Language Choice in Urban Kenya / Leonora Anyango.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66699-483-9
- 1-7936-4109-9
- OCLC:
- 1281975571
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