Essays about: "East African English"

Found 4 essays containing the words East African English.

  1. 1. How Ramy Challenges Arab Stereotypes in American Media : A study of an Arab-American comedy drama

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Peregrin Frost; [2023]
    Keywords : Hollywood; TV; Arabs; Stereotypes; Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : The portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in American film and television has been a lopsided affair since the beginnings of Hollywood movie production. Over the course of film and TV production during the twentieth century, and later, Hollywood and TV production companies has used the Arab as a negative trope to negatively stereotype them, or to elevate the perception of American characters in contrast to the presentation of the baser character of the Arab. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE KADHIS' COURTS IN KENYA. Towards Enhancing Access to Justice for Muslim Women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Kevin Wanyonyi; [2016]
    Keywords : Kadhis’ Courts; Kadhis; Legal Pluralism; Access to justice; Muslim women.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The legal framework in Kenya today is akin to a ‘right-angled triangle’ with the African Traditional Society as the hypotenuse, the Islamic law as the adjacent side and the English law as the opposite side. These ‘Pythagorean’ triples have informed both the Kenyan Family law history and practice. READ MORE

  4. 3. The inflected genitive and the of-construction : A comparative corpus study of written East African, Indian, American and British English

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Per Boberg; [2007]
    Keywords : corpus study; s-genitive; Indian English; British English; American English; inflected genitive; of-construction; semantics; ICE-EA; ICE-IND; Frown; FLOB; East African English;

    Abstract : This quantitative corpus study discusses and compares the distribution of the inflected genitive (’s- or zero-genitive) with that of the of-construction in East African, Indian, American and British English using data collected from the ICE-EA, ICE-IND, Frown and FLOB corpora. This study also discusses the semantic categories of the inflected genitive in the varieties mentioned. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Corpus Study of the Mandative Subjunctive in Indian and East African English

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Per Boberg; [2006]
    Keywords : Corpus Study; Mandative Subjunctive; Indian English; East African English; Kenyan and Tanzanian English;

    Abstract : This corpus study discusses the subjunctive construction in mandative sentences in East African and Indian English. Data taken from the East African ICE-EA corpus and the Indian Kolhapur corpus are compared to previous studies about American English and British English, mainly by Hundt (1998) and Johansson & Norheim (1988). READ MORE