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Peer reviewedKuha, Mai – World Englishes, 1998
Examines competition between conflicting principles in Kenyan English (animacy hierarchy and discourse pressure to place given information before new), manifested in news discourse. Results suggest some differences between spoken and written Kenyan English pointing to a tendency toward a more standard native-speaker variety in news discourse, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
