A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles - Hardcover

Silva, Penny

 
9780198631538: A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198631537 ISBN 13: 9780198631538
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1996

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A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles is the fullest ever study of the English language in South Africa. The result of 25 years of work, this dictionary has been researched and written according to historical principles. However, as well as recording examples of South African English going back to the sixteenth century, the dictionary also provides an insight into the dramatic political and cultural changes in South Africa's history by examining the country's ever changing language right up to the present day. Research into language has involved the contributions of hundreds of individual South Africans, as well as extensive research into all other forms of the written and spoken language. Diverse and informative entries include robot (a traffic light), bakkie (a small truck), bond (a mortgage), and brinjals (aubergines). The dictionary includes such areas as children's slang, the vocabulary of soldiers, the mines, local music terms, the townships, food, and a detailed look at the complex language of apartheid. English words originating from all the country's groups are recorded, including words from Dutch/Afrikaans, the Malayo-Indonesian languages, the Indian, Khoisan, Nguni, and Sotho languages.

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The DSAE was written at the Dictionary Unit for South African English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Penny Silva is the executive director of the Unit and the Dictionary's managing editor.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198631537
ISBN 13 
9780198631538
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
825
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