31.2186, Books: Nigerian English: Jowitt

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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:08:36
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Nigerian English: Jowitt

 


Title: Nigerian English 
Series Title: Dialects of English [DOE]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2YkzNR3 


Author: David Jowitt

Paperback: ISBN:  9781501521 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 22.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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