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Download full textde Kadt, Elizabeth – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study investigated requests as speech acts in "Zulu English," the English of Zulu first-language speakers, seeking to explain miscommunication in interactions between Zulu- and English-speakers by pointing to pragmatic transfer as one possible cause. Data were collected by means of a series of discourse completion tests in Zulu, Zulu…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
de Klerk, Vivian, Ed. – 1996
Essays on English in South Africa and its neighboring countries include: "A History of English in South Africa" (Len Lanham); "English in South African Society: A Preliminary Overview" (Bill Branford); "Black English in South Africa" (David Gough); "Language Contact, Transmission, Shift: South African Indian…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics
