Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

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This volume serves a double purpose: to showcase corpora of African Englishes and the work based on them, and to encourage more, and then especially African, researchers to try their hand at corpus linguistics (CL). [...] the present volume fulfills its double purpose admirably. The ardent corpus linguist and the experienced World Englishes scholar will welcome the opportunity to get an overview of the art in corpus linguistic projects devoted to African Englishes, together with an update on the position of English within African linguistic ecologies. The reluctant and yet-to-be-convinced corpus linguist, on the other hand, will appreciate the low-threshold approach to the topic adopted in the volume, an might even be persuaded to incorporate CL in their teaching and/or research. The editors of the volume brought together scholars from well-known, highly productive corpus linguistic hotspots and scholars from the - as yet - corpus linguistic diaspora, united in putting African Englishes firmly on the linguistic map. The present volume testifies to the productivity of such an endeavor. -- Claudia Lange, TU Dresden, in English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 111-115 (2021)