EAN: 9781501521386

NIGERIAN ENGLISH - DAVID JOWITT KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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