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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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Islamic Learning in Arabic-Afrikaans Between Malay Model and Ottoman Reform [PDF]
, 2015 Through the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the Muslim community of Cape Town produced a large number of texts in various fields of Islamic learning, written in Afrikaans, a creolized variety of the language the ...
Versteegh, K. (Kees)
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Modeling the emergence of contact languages [PDF]
, 2015 Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether ...
Loreto, Vittorio +3 more
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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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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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“Two Sides of the Same Coin”: Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017 The paper is a comparative overview of the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English, formerly spoken in Japan. Both varieties are shown to exhibit features typical of pre-pidgins, while they differ
Andrei A. AVRAM
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Internet: Culture Diversity and Unification [PDF]
, 1998 Culture specifics of the Internet usage is analysed. The analysis done is a preliminary work for the application of the socio-historical theory of human mental development.
Voiskounsky, Alexander E.
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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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Spartan Daily, April 23, 1997 [PDF]
, 1996 Volume 108, Issue 57https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9132/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Can We Witness the (Re)making of a Pidgin in Real Time? Contact in the Russian–Chinese Border Area
Languages, 2022 The empirical focus of this paper is on the interethnic communication along the Russian–Chinese border. Language contact in this area has a long history; in the 18th century, it resulted in a contact variety, the so-called Kyakhta language, or Russian ...
Kapitolina Fedorova
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