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The use of actually in spoken Xhosa English: a corpus study
Author(s) -
Klerk Vivian De
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00410.x
Subject(s) - xhosa , linguistics , spoken language , benchmark (surveying) , computer science , first language , history , psychology , sociology , natural language processing , geography , philosophy , geodesy
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the semantic and syntactic characteristics of the discourse marker actually , and then to describe and explain how it is used by mother‐tongue (MT) Xhosa speakers who have learned English as an additional language. Such a description may provide a useful benchmark for comparison with MT norms. The source of data for the study is a corpus of approximately half a million words of transcribed spontaneous dialogue between Xhosa English speakers.