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West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain

Africa Spectrum
West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a cluster of related, mutually intelligible, restructured Englishes with up to 140 million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and The Gambia.
Kofi Yakpo
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Pidżin zrodzony z żartu? Przypadek języka kraju San Escobar [PDF]

Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2021
The article analyzes onomastic material from the map of San Escobar, which was created on the Internet, with the intention of mockery, after a slip of the diplomat Witold Waszczykowski, who in January 2017 listed the non-existent state of San Escobar ...
Ewa Badyda
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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2021
The earliest stages of pidgin formation show a preference for analytic and morphologically reduced grammatical constructions relative to their lexifier or substrate languages, where the apparent morphological marking, if found, seems to be fossilized ...
Alshammari Wafi Fhaid
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Da insularidade ao crioulo – algumas reflexões sobre a construção da identidade social dos cabo-verdianos

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023
This article proposes to present the issue of insularity in the archipelago of Cape Verde, an African country marked by several centuries of Portuguese colonization, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the interrelation between socio-historical ...
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison

Languages, 2022
A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that, when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily recursive; favors the manner of action (aspect) over the time of action (tense)
John McWhorter
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Investigating the use and perception of West African Pidgin English among West African university students in Northern Cyprus

Globe, 2016
INVESTIGATING THE USE AND PERCEPTION OF WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH AMONG WEST AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NORTHERN CYPRUS   This study sought to establish the usage of Pidgin English among University students from three West African countries ...
Adeola A Elega
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The semantics of solidarity and brotherhood in Chinua Achebe's "No longer at ease"

Journal of English Studies, 2000
We intent to shed new light on the role of Pidgin, one of the languages used by Achebe's characters in No Longer at Ease. We suggest that, contrary to what some literary critics have interpreted, Pidgin, far from being the language of triviality or of ...
Mercedes Bengoechea Bartolomé, Gema Soledad Castillo García   +1 more
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اللغة الهجين واللغة المولدة

Lugawiyyat, 2021
Language is speech, as Ibn Jinni defined it. This definition goes to the growth of the spoken language in society. It is well known that the spoken language is more developed and used than the written language.
Makhi Ulil Kirom
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English Straight and Tok Pisin Stret: A Case Study from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
The framework of cognitive linguistics can be an efficient tool to represent the conceptual scope of meaning extension in reduced lexicons of pidgins and creoles.
Kosecki Krzysztof
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Shakespeare in Hawai‘i: Puritans, Missionaries, and Language Trouble in James Grant Benton’s "Twelf Nite O Wateva!", a Hawaiian Pidgin Translation of "Twelfth Night"

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2018
In 1974, the Honolulu-based director James Grant Benton wrote and staged Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian pidgin translation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In Benton’s translation, Malolio (Malvolio) strives to overcome his reliance on pidgin English in
Rhema Hokama
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