Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Corpus linguistics and corpus building
6. Chapter 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? 7
7. Chapter 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa 37
8. Chapter 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) 71
9. Chapter 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia 97
10. Chapter 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana) 119
11. Chapter 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes 143
12. Chapter 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics 165
13. Part II. Corpus-based analysis of African Englishes
14. Chapter 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes 185
15. Chapter 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes 205
16. Chapter 2.3. Namibian English on the web 231
17. Chapter 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective 259
18. Chapter 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English 293
19. Part III. Applications of corpora in English language teaching and learning
20. Chapter 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners 331
21. Chapter 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English 355
22. Chapter 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party 373
23. Index 401