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  • 标题:Coinages in Nigerian English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
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  • 作者:M.S. Abdullahi-Idiagbon ; O.K. Olaniyi
  • 期刊名称:African Nebula
  • 电子版ISSN:1837-7963
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:1
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:78-85
  • 出版社:African Nebula
  • 摘要:Nigerian English coinages have been widely investigated in different literatures ranging from studies in Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Syntax to Metaphors and Cognitive linguistic studies. This present paper is a re-visitation of the Nigerian English lexicon, taking cue from the lexicographic efforts of Igboanusi (2002). We have sociolinguistically x-rayed some common usages among Nigerians in different socio-political cum cultural and metaphorical course contents. Gumperz.s diffusionist theory was borrowed to strengthen our theoretical base. Gumperz (1968) proposes a diffusionist theory of the speech community. The theory postulates the spread of linguistic change/transfer in intersecting waves that emanate from different centres of innovation
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