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Peer reviewedNevalainen, Terttu – English Today, 1993
Considers how changes in language usage come about and whether such changes can be identified and examined as they occur in a language, focusing on changes in the English language in past centuries and the present day. (MDM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics
Peer reviewedDesai, Gaurav – English Today, 1993
Discusses the role of the English language in postcolonial African literature, focusing on the politics of language, "Africanized" English, and the social languages used in Chinua Achebe's novels and concludes that English today is as much an African language as a British or American one. (Contains 37 references.) (MDM)
Descriptors: African Literature, English, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
