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Direct linkMakalela, Leketi – World Englishes, 2004
This paper reexamines the debate over the emergence of Black South African English (BSAE) as a variety of English that is institutionalized with distinct properties. It focuses on the tense logic in Bantu languages and discourse markers that chiefly account for uniquely BSAE features. Through an indepth analysis of these linguistic properties, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standard Spoken Usage, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), English
