Vivian de Klerk

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vivian de Klerk is involved.

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Focus on South Africa

Edited by Vivian de Klerk

This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. 328 pp.

de Klerk, Vivian 2005 Expressing levels of intensity in Xhosa English English World-Wide 26:1, pp. 77–95 | Article

This article reports on patterns of adverbial usage in a 550 000-word corpus of informal spoken English collected from mother tongue (MT) Xhosa speakers for whom English is a second language. The focus is on the subset of intensifiers which accompany gradable adverbs and adjectives that allow… read more

de Klerk, Vivian 2003 Language and the law: Who has the upper hand? Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), pp. 89–103 | Article

de Klerk, Vivian 2003 Xhosa English as an institutionalised variety of English: In search of evidence English World-Wide 24:2, pp. 221–243 | Article

This paper aims to examine the English of Xhosa speakers (a significant proportion of speakers of Black South African English, since Xhosa is the second largest indigenous black language in South Africa), in terms of Williams’ (1987) criteria for Non-native Institutionalised Varieties of English… read more

de Klerk, Vivian 2002 Starting with Xhosa English towards a spoken corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:1, pp. 21–42 | Article

This paper describes the underlying motivation for the proposed structure and design of a corpus of Xhosa English, which aims ultimately to form part of a larger corpus of Black South African English (BSAE). The planned corpus will be exclusively based on spoken spontaneous Xhosa English, and full… read more

de Klerk, Vivian and Gary Barkhuizen 1998 Language Policy in the SANDF: A Case for Biting the Bullet? Language Problems and Language Planning 22:3, pp. 215–236 | Article

OORSIG Taalbeleid in die Suid Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag: 'n geval van die bul by die horings pak? In 1994 is 'n nuwe nasionale taalbeleid gepromulgeer, en in plaas van die vorige twee offisiële tale, Engels en Afrikaans, is 11 offisiële tale amptelik verklaar. Voorgangers van die finale Grondwet… read more

de Klerk, Vivian and Gary Barkhuizen 1998 English in the South African Defence Force: A Case Study of 6SAI English World-Wide 19:1, pp. 33–60 | Article

The article reports on research carried out at an army camp in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa in 1996; it aimed to examine language use at the camp across all levels and in all contexts, in order to assess the degree to which South Africa's new multilingual language policy of 1994 has… read more

de Klerk, Vivian 1997 Encounters with English over three generations in a Xhosa family: For better or for worse? Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 97–118 | Article

Bosch, Barbara and Vivian de Klerk 1996 Language Attitudes and their Implications for the Teaching of English in the Eastern Cape Focus on South Africa, de Klerk, Vivian (ed.), pp. 231–250 | Article

de Klerk, Vivian 1996 Introduction Focus on South Africa, de Klerk, Vivian (ed.), pp. 7–18 | Introduction

de Klerk, Vivian and Barbara Bosch 1993 English in South Africa: The Eastern Cape Perspective English World-Wide 14:2, pp. 209–229 | Article