Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance
- Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions. The current study shows how the use of modal verbs of obligation and spatial prepositions provides insights into how the nexus of the above phenomena has shaped Ugandan English. For example, although the preference of \(\it have to\) over \(\it must\) is a global trend, in Ugandan English, it is more prevalent in Bantu-speaking than in Nilotic-speaking areas because of substrate influence. Crucially, although the use of spatial prepositions is generally similar to how they are used in, for example, (standard) British English, the peculiar use of from to encode stative location in Ugandan English is, despite some regional variations, so widespread in the country that it tends towards endonormative stabilisation.
| Author: | Bebwa IsingomaGND, Christiane MeierkordGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-91902 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0185 |
| Parent Title (English): | Open linguistics |
| Subtitle (English): | a corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/08/03 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/05/17 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Open Access Fonds Ugandan English; obligation; prepositions |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 87 |
| Last Page: | 107 |
| Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Englisches Seminar |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Literatur / Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philologie |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
