The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.

The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.

An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society ...

"This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

... South African English ( BSAE ) .1 BSAE has been defined in various ways . While Gough ( 1996 : 53 ) simply states that it is " the English of black South Africans " , other authors have come up with more refined definitions . Wade ...

"Mesthrie's A Lexicon of South African Indian English, described by the author as a supplement (and also complement) to the 1980 edition of A Dictionary of South African English (ed.

The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized ...