This article examines the use of sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in three African
varieties of English: Ghanaian English, Nigerian English and Ugandan English, in terms of …

World Englishes (WE) research has been invested in getting to grips with the diversity of
different Englishes and in making sense of their structural properties. The first research …

Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and
ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British …

This study compares the complexity of the noun phrase (NP) in Ghanaian English in a real‐
time perspective. Based on the Historical Corpus English in Ghana (1966–1975) and the …

This paper examines pragmatic variation in the use of anyway between Nigerian English
and Ghanaian English, in terms of its frequency, position, collocational patterns, pragmatic …

This study explores six borrowed discourse-pragmatic features–koraa/kraa, saa, paa, yoo,
wai/wae, and waa,–which are borrowed from indigenous Ghanaian languages into …

Nigerian English (NigE) is a second language (L2) variety of English that has been
domesticated, acculturated and indigenised within the Nigerian socio-cultural and linguistic …

This study investigated the use of articles, modal verbs and selected discourse markers (so,
well and but) in Zimbabwean English (ZE) to determine whether there are variations and …

This paper investigates the non-categorical variability between anterior and simultaneous
finite that-clauses and non-finite-ing clauses following the verb REGRET in seven varieties …

Huber (2014: 87–91) discusses the development of English in Ghana against the
background of the Dynamic Model of the Evolution of Postcolonial Englishes (Schneider …