Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes

IF 1.8 2区文学 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI:10.1515/ip-2022-4003

F. Unuabonah, Loveluck Muro

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Abstract

Abstract This study explores five Swahili discourse-pragmatic features – ati/eti, yaani, pole, sasa and sawa – which are borrowed from Swahili into Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes, with a view to investigating their meanings, frequencies, positioning, collocational patterns, syntactic distribution and discourse-pragmatic functions. The data, which are extracted from the International Corpus of English-East Africa and the Kenyan and Tanzanian components of the corpus of Global Web-based English, are analysed quantitatively and qualitatively, from a variational and postcolonial corpus pragmatic framework. The study reveals that the Swahili discourse-pragmatic features occur more frequently in the Kenyan corpora than in the Tanzanian corpora, except in the case of sasa, which occurred with the same frequency in the online corpus. The paper identifies ati/eti as an attention marker, a quotative marker, a hearsay marker, an inferential marker, and an emotive interjection, yaani as an emphasis and elaborative marker, while pole is an attitudinal marker that expresses sympathy and sarcasm. While sasa is only an attention marker, sawa is an agreement and attention marker. The paper shows that these borrowed discourse-pragmatic features contribute to the distinctive nature of East African Englishes.

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肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚英语中借用斯瓦希里语的语用特征

摘要本研究探讨了从斯瓦希里语引入肯尼亚英语和坦桑尼亚英语的五个语篇语用特征——ati/eti、yaani、pole、sasa和sawa，考察了它们的意义、频率、定位、搭配模式、句法分布和语篇语用功能。这些数据是从国际英语语料库东非和全球网络英语语料库的肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚组成部分中提取的，从变分和后殖民语料库语用框架中进行定量和定性分析。研究表明，斯瓦希里语语篇语用特征在肯尼亚语料库中比在坦桑尼亚语料库中出现的频率更高，但在在线语料库中出现频率相同的sasa除外。ati/eti是注意标记、引语标记、道听途说标记、推理标记和情感感叹词，yaani是强调和阐述标记，pole是表达同情和讽刺的态度标记。sasa只是一个注意标记，而sawa是一个协议和注意标记。本文认为，这些借用的语篇语用特征形成了东非英语的独特性质。

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.

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