Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English : : A Sociolinguistic Perspective /

Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English : : A Sociolinguistic Perspective / / ed. by Akinmade T. Akande, Oladipo Salami.

This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin English. Its major aim is to serve as a compendium which touches different major aspects of NPE as it has been observed that earlier works in this area have focused only on one aspect or the other. It will offer a broad surve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Akande, Akinmade T.,
Babalola, Adesoji,
Egbokhare, Francis O.,
Faraclas, Nicholas,
Honkanen, Mirka,
Inyabri, Idom,
Mair, Christian,
Mensah, Eyo,
Mowarin, Macaulay,
Nyong, Benjamin,
Okesola, Saheed O.,
Osoba, Joseph Babasola,
Oyebode, Oluwabunmi O.,
Salami, Oladipo,
Ukaegbu, Eunice,
HerausgeberIn:
Akande, Akinmade T.,
Salami, Oladipo,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 117
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Naija: A language of the future
  • Chapter 2 Nigerian Pidgin: Changes in prestige and function in non-Anglophone diasporic contexts
  • Chapter 3 The accidental lingua franca: The paradox of the ascendancy of Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria
  • Chapter 4 Nigerian Pidgin, identity and national re-invention in Naija stand-up comedy
  • Chapter 5 Nigerian Pidgin in authenticating immigrant identities
  • Chapter 6 Towards a working orthography of Nigerian Pidgin
  • Chapter 7 Morpho-syntactic features of Nigerian Pidgin on Radio programmes rendered in Naija
  • Chapter 8 Emphasis, focalization and topicalization in Nigerian Pidgin
  • Chapter 9 Metalanguage of football commentary in Nigerian Pidgin
  • Chapter 10 A social semiotic investigation of Nigerian Pidgin in select Nigerian church posters
  • Chapter 11 Nigerian Pidgin as national language: Prospects and challenges
  • Chapter 12 Non-state actors, language practices, language policy and Nigerian Pidgin promotion
  • Index

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