Full Description
Ugandan English is a variety that has scarcely been noticed in past research. This timely volume brings together African and European scholars in a first-ever collection of articles that offer comprehensive discussions of the historical and present-day sociolinguistics of English in Uganda and fine-grained analyses of the structural characteristics of and attitudes to this hitherto largely unknown variety. Using rich archive, corpus, and interview data as well as ethnographic and observational methods, the various contributions paint a comprehensive picture of Ugandan English as distinct from other East African Englishes and as characterized by nativisation despite a still strong exonormative orientation, reflecting the modern nation's status as a post-protectorate under the influence of globalisation. Apart from advancing our understanding of Ugandan English itself, the individual chapters contribute to theoretical debates on language contact and variation as regards the influence of substrate languages, founder populations, language ideologies and socio-economic factors.
Contents
1. Ugandan English - challenges to, and food for, current theories (by Isingoma, Bebwa); 2. Part I - The context; 3. Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda's linguistic ecology: Facts and issues (by Namyalo, Saudah); 4. A social history of English(es) in Uganda (by Meierkord, Christiane); 5. Part II - Functions of English in multilingual Uganda today; 6. The sociolinguistic situation of English in Uganda: A case of language attitudes and beliefs (by Nakayiza, Judith); 7. Tensions between English medium and mother tongue education in rural Ugandan primary schools: An ethnographic investigation (by Ssentanda, Medadi); 8. Part III - Features of Ugandan English; 9. Diphthongs in Ugandan English: Evidence for and against variety status and Interactions across Englishes (by Meierkord, Christiane); 10. Lexical borrowings and calques in Ugandan English (by Isingoma, Bebwa); 11. The use of the progressive in Ugandan English (by Ssempuuma, Jude); 12. The use of ditransitive constructions in Ugandan English (by Isingoma, Bebwa); 13. Speech acts in Ugandan English social letters: Investigating the influence of sociocultural context (by Meierkord, Christiane); 14. Part IV - Ugandan English and beyond; 15. Indian English in Uganda: The historical sociolinguistics of a migrant community (by Rathore-Nigsch, Claudia); 16. Index
