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Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012 Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process.
Eyo Offiong Mensah
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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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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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Le Pidgin Madam, un nouveau pidgin arabe [PDF]
La linguistique, 2005 This paper presents a new language born in Arabic-speaking countries, out of the contact between Arabic middle-class families and female maids from Sri-Lanka. Our study has been conducted in Lebanon. Thus, the two languages in contact here are Lebanese Arabic (lexifier), and Colloquial Sinhala (substratum).
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Language of Power: Pidgin in the Colonial Governance of Northern Nigeria
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2015 Pidgin was indispensable as a working language of colonial governance in Northern Nigeria, epitome of the distinct and continuing role of pidgin as a language of the workplace in West Africa.
Philip Atsu Afeadie
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 In this paper I present an analysts of what remains of a trade language born in the seventeenth century as a consequence of Basque fishing trips in the North Atlantic.
José Ignacio Hualde
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 Basque fishermen were among the most numerous visitors of the North East coast of America in the 16th and 17th centuries. They traded actively with some of the native tribes on the coast and along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River.
Peter Bakker
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The impact of COVID‐19 on public perceptions of wild meat in Central Africa
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Wild meat is a significant source of food and income generation in Central Africa. However, there is little knowledge of how the assumed link between COVID‐19 and wild meat consumption has been discussed by the media and received by the public. In this study, we conducted media content analysis of 264 articles published in 2019–2020 related to
Yuhan Li +14 more
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LANGUAGE SITUATION AND LANGUAGE POLICY IN NIGERIA
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The article deals with the language situation and language policy in Nigeria which is one of the most polyethnic African states. Sociolinguistic situation in the country is very complex because there are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria which speak
Anna A Borisova, Nadezhda Yu Ilina
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British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
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