Convergence English And Nigerian Languages

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416497

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Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele Pdf

The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785412703

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Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril’s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the major ‘traditional’ fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Author : Association of Nigerian Languages Teachers. National Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122202976

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The Influence of Foreign Languages on the Development of Nigerian Languages by Association of Nigerian Languages Teachers. National Conference Pdf

Author : Mirka Honkanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260888

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World Englishes on the Web by Mirka Honkanen Pdf

World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods—relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data—with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants’ language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages

Author : Akinmade T. Akande,Oladipo Salami
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501513589

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Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English by Akinmade T. Akande,Oladipo Salami Pdf

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 survey of the form and functions of Nigerian Pidgin (NP) in different domains. The book promises to investigate the use of NP in such domains as popular culture, advertisement, social media and online discussion fora. One major strong point of this volume is the fact that it will direct attention to different fertile areas of NP by focusing, inter alia, on its social functions, its morphology and syntax, its regional varieties, its (possible) use as a viable medium of instruction in school, the changing attitudes of people towards its use, the place of NP in relation to language planning and policy in Nigeria as well as sociolinguistic variation within NP. The book will make a significant contribution to the existing literature on NP as, unlike earlier studies in this area, it will explore the grammatical, sociolinguistic and perceptual aspects of the language. By bringing together the expertise of renowned Nigerian and international scholars who have conducted research in this area, the volume will be an essential resource for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students interested not only in Nigerian Pidgin but also on contact linguistics.

Author : Kọ́lá Owólabí,A. O. Dasylva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123516564

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Forms and Functions of English and Indigenous Languages in Nigeria by Kọ́lá Owólabí,A. O. Dasylva Pdf

Author : Efurosibina E. Adegbija
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Multilingualism
ISBN : 1592211739

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Multilingualism by Efurosibina E. Adegbija Pdf

Adegbija puts a national and international,searchlight on the Nigerian socio-linguistic,scenario through a description and analysis of the,language landscape in its various,ramifications. He provides a readily accessiblestimulating and fairly comprehensive description,of the language situation, including the functions,of languages, language choice, language attitudesthe plight and destiny of minority languages and,the planning, management and engineering of,multilingualism in the Nigerian context.

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789785412727

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Language Endangerment by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

This commemorative volume is the 12th edition in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series devoted to Professor (Mrs.) Appolonia Uzoaku Okwudishu. The majority of the papers were presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (CLAN) which was held at the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria, and the 26th CLAN which was held at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The title derives from the theme of the 27th CLAN: Language Endangerment: Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages in Nigeria. A large number of the papers address the major theme of the conference, while the balance address various aspects of Nigerian linguistics, languages, communication, and literature. Fifty-one papers are included, ranging from sociolinguistics through applied linguistics to formal areas of linguistics which include phonology, morphology and syntax of Nigerian languages. Papers on language endangerment and language revitalisation strategies for safeguarding the vanishing indigenous tongues of Nigeria are the major focus, and the book serves as important reference material in various aspects of language and linguistic studies in Nigeria.

Author : David Jowitt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504600

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Nigerian English by David Jowitt Pdf

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.

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025806113

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Four Decades in the Study of Languages & Linguistics in Nigeria by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele Pdf

Author : E. A. Babalola (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : IND:30000100596067

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The Domestication of English in Nigeria by E. A. Babalola (Ph. D.) Pdf

Author : Annalisa Bonomo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869386

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World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn by Annalisa Bonomo Pdf

The recent multilingual turn involves various different implicit and explicit language policies, urging pressure and resistance with regard to the spread of English and its dominant relationships with other national languages. As such, this book considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. The data presented here show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation, with worldwide Standard English being but one of the many other related varieties which enjoy prestige on a large scale. These varieties may be identified according to different features which make the plural “world Englishes” an umbrella term with blurred edges. New approaches to dialects study have been developed in recent decades, and cartographic mapping has overlapped with the emergence of a new dialectology which deals with the description of language phenomena as complex concepts, where “complexity” provides a challenging framework for investigation and research of languages as dynamic systems made up of variables which mutually influence each other. Thus, dialectometry, dialectology and standardization become interesting tools for measuring linguistic differences, establishing language typologies and endorsing the systemic characteristics which can be formalized. Comprehensive and well-informed, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the spread of English, from researchers and teachers to students, providing them with a greater understanding of some examples of world Englishes analysed under the light of complexity as a product of global society.

Author : Dele Adeyanju
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 3895865796

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The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages by Dele Adeyanju Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Dunstan
Publisher : New York : Africana Publishing Corporation
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015001691636

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Twelve Nigerian Languages by Elizabeth Dunstan Pdf

Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe,L. Ayo Banjo,Dr. Andrew Thomas
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015039926418

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New Englishes by Ayọ Bamgboṣe,L. Ayo Banjo,Dr. Andrew Thomas Pdf