ISBN:
9789027207395
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 338 Seiten
,
Diagramm, Karte
Series Statement:
Varieties of English around the world volume G63
Series Statement:
Varieties of English around the world / General series
Uniform Title:
"like my homeboy will say, this na really Naija"
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Honkanen, Mirka World Englishes on the web
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br. 2018
DDC:
427/.9669
Keywords:
English language Dialects
;
Nigerian Americans Languages
;
English language Variation
;
Corpora (Linguistics)
;
English language Globalization
;
Hochschulschrift
;
USA
;
Nigerianer
;
Black English
Abstract:
"World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods-relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data-with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants' language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: "like my homeboy will say, this na really Naija" : African-Amerian and Nigerian resources in U.S.-Nigerians' digital communication
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