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The East African component of the International Corpus of English

Publications

  • Schmied, Josef (1990). "Corpus linguistics and non-native varieties of English". World Englishes 9, 255-268.
  • Schmied, Josef (1995). "English in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi". de Klerk, Vivian, ed. Varieties of English around the World: Focus on South Africa. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Schmied, Josef (1995) "Second-language corpora". Greenbaum, Sidney ed. The International Corpus of English.Oxford: Oxford U.P.
  • Schmied, Josef/Diana Hudson-Ettle (1995). "Syntactic style variation in East African English". English World-Wide 16.
  • Schmied, Josef/Diana Hudson-Ettle (1996). "Analysing the style of East African newspapers in English". World Englishes 15:1, 103-113.
  • Hudson-Ettle, Diana (1998) Grammatical Subordination Strategies in Differing Text Types in the English Spoken and Written in Kenya. PhD thesis, Chemnitz University of Technology, http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~dihe.
  • Skandera, Paul (1999) "What do we REALLY know about Kenyan English? - A pilot study in resarch methodology." English World-Wide 20:2, 217-236.

Work in progress

  • Hertel, Eva: "Metaphor and culture: the case of East Africa". Chemnitz University of Technology.
  • Krohne, Barbara. "Culture-specific lexicology in African English". Chemnitz University of Technology.
  • Skandera, Paul. "Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English". University of Basel/Chemnitz University of Technology.
  • Hahn, Angela/Nilsson, Tore/Reich, Sabine. "Orality and noun phrase structure in registers of British and Kenyan English". Chemnitz University of Technology/University of Uppsala.
Please send us information on the type of research you are planning to undertake and when we can make this information available to the research community. Write to:
Dr. Diana Hudson-Ettle
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Fachgruppe Anglistik/Amerikanistik
09107 Chemnitz
e-mail: diana.hudson-ettle@phil.tu-chemnitz.de