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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Cadernos de LinguísticaThis paper details the spread of two pidgins in North and West Africa in the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of two individuals, the US State Department envoy, William Brown Hodgson and the French colonialist, Louis Faidherbe. Although the
Joanna Nolan
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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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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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, 2009 When different cultures and languages come into contact with each other, “pidgin” appears as one of the most typical phenomena. In China, people learned the strange English of this kind first in Guangdong in the past and what is alled “Yangjingbang ...
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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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“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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Tales of “Good Indian Hair”: Race, Value, and Sensory Contact Zones in Afro‐Asian Delhi
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT Hair, as a sociocultural bodily signifier, also becomes, once disembodied, a highly globalized and specialized commodity used for weaves, extensions, wigs and toupees around the globe. “Indian” hair is particularly valued in such commodity chains.
Bani Gill
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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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Vers un Pidgin-English jeune en zone anglophone du Cameroun ?
Corela, 2015 Due to the contact between Pidgin English and many languages in and out of Cameroon, a so-called “youth” Pidgin-English has emerged in English-speaking regions and especially in Buea.
Céphanie Mirabelle Gisèle PIEBOP
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