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Requests in a South African Variety of English
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Kasanga, Luanga A. – World Englishes, 2006
The main assumption in this article is that the pragmatics of the variety of South African English commonly referred to as black South African English (BSAE) have been shaped, over time, by educated bilinguals, through a transfer of features from African languages. Transfer of syntactic forms, now firmly established in the variety, is evidenced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Cultural Differences, Speech Acts