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I - A Framework for English in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2019

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South African EnglishAfrikaansBlack South African Englishsociolingiustic changerelationships of languagesemergent varietiesDynamic Modelkoinéizationmultilingualismpostcolonial EnglishesSouth African EnglishThree Circles modelWorld Englishes theoriesDynamic Modelpostcolonial EnglishesSouth AfricaNew EnglisheskoinéizationSouth African EnglishAfrikaanslinguistic divergenceBakhtinSouth African EnglishWhite South African EnglishAfrikaanshistorical corpussemantic featureslanguage contactcontact-induced changegrammaticalisationSouth African EnglishregionalityregionalismsShort Front Vowel ShiftsociophoneticsDurbanJohannesburgCape Townvowel qualityacademic writingBlack South African EnglishconvergencedowntonerseditingendonormativitymodalsWhite South African English
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English in Multilingual South Africa
The Linguistics of Contact and Change
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