Formality as a Feature of Postcolonial English in Kenya: a Contrastive Analysis Based on the International Corpus of English
In monolingual countries where English is the native language of the majority of population, it is used across all domains and registers, and by all members of society. In post-colonial, multilingual countries it comes to be used as a lingua franca in more restricted contexts. Because there is a sig...
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University of Bucharest Publishing House
2011-08-01
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| Series: | Styles of Communication |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communication/article/view/1159 |