Hamburg Talks on Current Issues in World EnglishesTowards a diachronic corpus of African newspapers (DiaNewsAfrica)

7. Juni 2022, von JH / Webredaktion SLM

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The aim of this talk is twofold. First, I will talk about the challenges of compiling a historical corpus of an African variety on the example of HiCE Ghana. In the main part, I will sketch my ideas for the compilation of a Diachronic Newspaper Corpus of African Englishes (DiaNewsAfrica).

Initially comprising four varieties (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda), a total of six sub-corpora will be created for each variety, starting shortly after independence from Great Britain until today (in ten-year steps from 1965 to 2015), each containing about 500,000 words of different sub-genres, so that the entire corpus will comprise around 12 million words.

Dr. Thorsten Brato (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
2.15 ‐ 3.45 pm CET ‐ Webinar