Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Ugandan English - challenges to, and food for, current theories 1
4. Part I - The context
5. Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology 19
6. A social history of English(es) in Uganda 51
7. Part II - Functions of English in multilingual Uganda today
8. The sociolinguistic situation of English in Uganda 75
9. Tensions between English medium and mother tongue education in rural Ugandan primary schools 95
10. Part III - Features of Ugandan English
11. Diphthongs in Ugandan English 121
12. Lexical borrowings and calques in Ugandan English 149
13. The use of the progressive in Ugandan English 173
14. The use of ditransitive constructions in Ugandan English 201
15. Speech acts in Ugandan English social letters 227
16. Part IV - Ugandan English and beyond
17. Indian English in Uganda 251
18. Index 275