Re-evaluating the Question of Standardization of Nigerian English

Ifesieh, Emeka C.

doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.02.004

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“…Various linguists have stressed the presence and need for a standardised variety of Nigerian English, making many cases for this (Ifesieh, 2016). In line with this ideology, there is a Standardise Nigerian English Movement (SNEM) whose main aim is to promote the NE and ensure that it gets its international recognition because its distinctive usages mark it different from World Englishes.…”

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“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Adebileje

Adeleke

2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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This sociolinguistic study explores lexical innovations and variation in the lexemes of Nigerian English formed during the COVID-19Pandemic. The emergence and spread of the virus have significantly altered the societal norm to becoming what is called the new normal. The Nigerian linguistic landscape is not spared from the impact caused by the virus. Some new words peculiar to Covid-19 have been introduced into the day to day use of Nigerian English (NE) in some sectors of the society, such as education, social media, health, religion, and markets. There have also been lexical innovations as well as variations in the use of these vocabularies. Using the variationist model, this research investigates these COVID-19 vocabularies and how factors such as region, class, and situational contexts bring about linguistic variations in daily use. In doing this, it identifies and compiles the lexemes as being used and also describes their contextual usages in Nigerian English. This study adopts a descriptive survey design and collects data using questionnaires from two hundred Nigerian English speakers in SouthwestNigeria. The research shows that NE speakers use diverse morphological processes to create new lexemes based on the COVID-19 context. It also produces a COVID-19 vocabulary corpus that reveals Nigerian speakers' linguistic and innovative ability of the English

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Section: Nigerian Englishmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Adebileje

Adeleke

2021

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English in Nigeria: a History of Research

Битко

2018

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One of the advanced areas of the Global English research is that of non-native varieties including Nigerian English (NE) as one of the most representative varieties in Africa. But literature analysis on NE reveals that in spite of the growing interest of linguists to the study of this variety there is no coherent program of its research and description. In this paper, a history of the NE research is traced in the context of the history of English in Nigeria. The aim of the paper is in eliciting the lacunae in overall representation of this variety and in outlining prospects for its further research. Literature analysis makes it possible to distinguish three periods in the description and research of English in Nigeria: pre-linguistic, political and linguistic; these periods correlate with the stages in the history of English in Nigeria. During pre-linguistic period (the end of the 18th c. – the end of the 19th c.) the presence of English in Nigeria and a rather widespread use of English-based pidgins are mentioned in a few works on Western Africa and in rare samples of private correspondence. During political period (the end of the 19th c. – the middle of the 20th c.) English is implemented into educational system, it is gaining recognition in the country, local literature in English is developing, and linguistic debates on the characteristics and status of NE are taking place. During linguistic period investigations of structural and systemic parameters and characteristics of NE are being performed. NE is also included into the program of English worldwide comparative studies (The International Corpus of English). This study shows that there is a hiatus in the area of lexicography, both practical and theoretical. A systematic and comprehensive investigation of the NE evolution is on the research agenda as well.

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Re-evaluating the Question of Standardization of Nigerian English

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

English in Nigeria: a History of Research

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