Book contents
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Studies in English Language
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- I A Framework for English in South Africa
- Chapter 1 English in South Africa: Contact and Change
- Chapter 2 South Africa in the Linguistic Modeling of World Englishes
- Chapter 3 South African English, the Dynamic Model and the Challenge of Afrikaans Influence
- Chapter 4 The Historical Development of South African English: Semantic Features
- Chapter 5 Regionality in South African English
- Chapter 6 Does Editing Matter? Editorial Work, Endonormativity and Convergence in Written Englishes in South Africa
- II Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism
- III Language Interfaces
- Timeline for South African History
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - South Africa in the Linguistic Modeling of World Englishes
from I - A Framework for English in South Africa
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Book contents
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Studies in English Language
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- I A Framework for English in South Africa
- Chapter 1 English in South Africa: Contact and Change
- Chapter 2 South Africa in the Linguistic Modeling of World Englishes
- Chapter 3 South African English, the Dynamic Model and the Challenge of Afrikaans Influence
- Chapter 4 The Historical Development of South African English: Semantic Features
- Chapter 5 Regionality in South African English
- Chapter 6 Does Editing Matter? Editorial Work, Endonormativity and Convergence in Written Englishes in South Africa
- II Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism
- III Language Interfaces
- Timeline for South African History
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
This paper summarizes scholarly approaches to varieties of South African English, mainly from the perspective of World Englishes theorizing. South Africa's complex ethnic composition has produced a range of distinctive varieties of English and has defied simplistic notions of dialect evolution. Neither Kachru's “Three Circles” model nor Schneider's “Dynamic Model” allow coherent accounts of South African English as a whole in their respective frameworks. In contrast, many South African scholars, often extrapolating from the “Dynamic Model”, have highlighted the need to focus on internal sub-varieties rather than favouring a national, overall perspective. The questions of how uniform or diverse South African English is and how these relationships can be modelled are widely addressed in scholarship, including ongoing changes, as for example the recent emergence of a pan-ethnic middle class compromise variety described primarily by Rajend Mesthrie.
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