The English Language in West Africa
Author: John Spencer
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 214
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Nigerian English
Author: David Jowitt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1501504509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English around the world, no study of the Nigerian variety intended for the international market has yet been published. Making use of well-known paradigms, the book will relate Nigerian English, as a ‘Second Language’ variety, to other World Englishes. Its chief overall concern, however, is to provide a detailed descriptive account of the variety, seeking to show what is distinctive about it and also, in this perspective, distinguishing between more educated and less educated usage. After giving a sociolinguistic profile of Nigeria, where English today enjoys a more prominent role than ever before, it will examine in turn the phonology, morpho-syntax, and lexico-semantics of Nigerian English, with samples of written texts from the eighteenth century to the present. It will also give a comprehensive summary of academic research carried out in the field over the past fifty years. In this way the book will provide an introduction to the subject for the benefit of scholars and students in universities in many countries, and will serve as a useful companion to other books in De Gruyter Mouton's Dialects of English series.
Standards of English
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0521763894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.
Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society
Author: Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2016-12-14
Total Pages: 1129
ISBN-13: 9785431193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.
The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 857
ISBN-13: 1108581382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe plural form 'Englishes' conveys the diversity of English as a global language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English and the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of World Englishes from 1600 to the present day. Covering topics such as variationist sociolinguistics, pragmatics, contact linguistics, linguistic anthropology, corpus- and applied linguistics and language history, it combines discussion of traditional topics with a variety of innovative approaches. The chapters, all written by internationally acclaimed authorities, provide up-to-date discussions of the evolution of different Englishes around the globe, a comprehensive coverage of different models and approaches, and some original perspectives on current challenges.
Nigerian Pidgin
Author: Nick Faraclas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1134975627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax, morphology and phonology of a language which may soon become the most widely spoken in all of Africa.
Oxford Companion to the English Language
Author: Tom McArthur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-05-14
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 0191073873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage. This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair. It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.
New Englishes
Author: Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 622
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Author: Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9783865831576
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