Nigerian English / / David Jowitt.
Although 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’ vari...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dialects of English [DOE] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 242 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures / List of Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics and Phonology -- 3. Morphosyntax -- 4. Lexis and Discourse -- 5. History and Changes in Progress -- 6. Survey of Previous Work and Annotated Bibliography -- 7. Samples of Texts -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Although 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501504600 9783110762464 9783110719567 9783110742978 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604078 9783110603170 |
ISSN: | 2164-7445 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501504600 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Jowitt. |