Kiswahili Loanwords in the English Language of Kenya within a Theoretical Framework

• Authors: Budohoska Natalia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The sociolinguistic context of prolonged language contact in contemporary Kenya should lead to a certain amount of influence of the languages on one another, e.g. through loanwords. The main aim of the present paper was to examine English in Kenya to show what kind of words are borrowed from African languages and their analysis within the framework of the borrowing theories formulated in Tappolet (1913–16), Haugen (1950), Weinreich (1953), Dardano – Trifone (1995), Hock – Joseph (1996), Krefeld (1999) and McColl-Millar (2007). The data for this study come from the International corpus of English for East Africa (ICE-EA).

Keywords

EN

Kenya; English; Kiswahili; borrowings; loanwords

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 22/2
• Pages: 73-86

Contributors

author

Budohoska Natalia

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