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In the case of Ghana, the extremes of the debate are Nations, proposes that English be dropped as an ‘official’ language and be Opposes SE as ‘Imperial,’ meaning, as a language imposed on postcolonial Subject of the debate between the defenders of New Englishes, who pronounce allįorms of English equal, and the upholders of Standard English, who decreeīritish or American forms to be the only ‘acceptable’ forms of English The original colonial language abound and generate new variations of They use English as a second (or third or fourth) language), deviations from Postcolonial era, the majority of English speakers are ‘non-native’ (meaning, “may be one of the longest running linguistic debates this century” (“Ghanaian Standard English (SE) and New Englishes – a dispute that Samuel Ahulu suggests Ghanaian English (GE) instantiates the larger, international argument over The contention between British Standard English (BSE) and Towards the idea of accepting Ghanaian English as a national lingua The loanwords and expressions in Ghanaian English do not represent theĮthnolinguistic groups in Ghana, those unrepresented groups will be hostile However, one immense impediment stands in

Meeting the charge to “systematically distinguish” Ghanaian English as a ‘NewĮnglish’ (Ahulu “How Ghanaian is Ghanaian English?” 27). These defenders of the Ghanaian Standard have made considerable progress in “pidginizations.” Other scholars see the resistance to cultural modificationsĪs futile and insist that a “Ghanaian Standard” be recognized as equally as

Written English in Ghana and who denounce all linguistic deviations from BSE as Ideas of ‘correct’ English in Ghana and so have been denounced by most GhanaianĮducators, who enforce the British standard as the only appropriate form for Those common forms of English have always threatened to alter Innumerable hybrids in between those two poles.

Ranging along a continuum from Pidgin English to British Standard English, with Ghana (like other ‘anglophone’ West African nations) has taken various forms, Problematic Pidginizations: Who Can Accept Ghanaian English?īe prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use” – Chinuaįrom its entrance during the colonial period, English in