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World Englishes on the Web : the Nigerian diaspora in the USA

Title: World Englishes on the Web : the Nigerian diaspora in the USA / Mirka Honkanen.
Author: Honkanen, Mirka
Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description

vii, 338 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Varieties of English around the world (VEAW), 0172-7362 ; volume G63

Uniform Title

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 63.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The sociolinguistics of the Nigerian diaspora -- Nigeria as a reference point -- The demographics of Nigeria : A buzzing giant -- English in Nigeria -- The status of Nigerian Pidgin -- The educated Nigerian linguistic repertoire -- Nigerians in the United States : "They are immigrants and they are Black" -- Resources, repertoires, and authenticity in times of globalization -- Crossing -- The sociolinguistics of globalization -- Resources and languages -- Repertoires -- Authenticity -- Language and authenticity -- Doing authentic Nigerianness -- Key concepts of cultural membership -- Approaches to cultural authenticity -- Data and methods -- Web forums as a data source -- Nairaland : A Nigerian web forum -- Nairaland as a virtual community -- Corpus compilation and composition -- The "World languages : digital languages" project -- The Nairaland 2 corpus -- The Net Corpora Administration Tool -- The core 50 subcorpus -- Global comparisons : The Corpus of Global Web-based English -- Methods of analysis -- Legal and ethical issues -- African Americans and their vernacular English -- Relations between U.S.-Nigerians and African Americans : "How Deep Is The Resentment?" -- Attitudes toward AAVE : "ibonics is identity for an african american" -- Linguistic features of AAVE -- African-American linguistic resources in diasporic Nigerian repertoires -- User types -- User type I : Consistent experts -- User type II : Inconsistent experts -- User type III : Occasional users -- User type IV : Minimal users -- User type V : Non-users -- AAVE features and practices -- Authenticity issues -- Controversial identities : "Reppin where am from faithfully" -- Reactions to expert usage of AAVE : "We NIGERIANS don't talk street" -- Styleshifting into AAVE -- Rap battling : "The music of hope. .and by the way its black" -- Accommodation to one's interlocutors : "Whatcha been up to homie?" -- Fictional narratives : "Shes Ghetto and She's got it all!" -- Verbal markers -- Habitual or iterative invariant be -- Perfect done -- Remote past been -- Futurate, finna -- Futurate I'ma -- Lexical and orthographic AAVE features -- Spelling : "They call each others Doggs .. or is it dawgs?" -- Lexis : "This is not hate! This is Real Talk!" -- Practices of minimal usage : "Like my African american brothers go say" -- Highly popular features -- Ain't and other issues of negation : "I use the word 'aint' because i can" -- Second-person plural pronoun y'all : "t'sup y'all?" -- Augmentation with ass : "Is their sacral bone fractured or what?" -- Nigerian linguistic resources in diasporic Nigerian repertoires -- Nigerian Pidgin as a resource : "Pidgin English dey relieve stress well well" -- Ethnic Nigerian languages : "My yoruba has improved ke? : i'm a yoruba girl now!" -- Nigerian English on the forum : "Critical parts of the Nigerian lexicon" -- Morphosyntactic features -- Lexical and stylistic features -- Orthographic features : "Nigerians will grin and say 'Yes sah'" -- Abbreviations : "Thats the new lol o!" -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1493

ISBN

9789027207395
9027207399

LCCN

2020019601

OCLC

1152405094

Author

Honkanen, Mirka, author.

Title

World Englishes on the Web : the Nigerian diaspora in the USA / Mirka Honkanen.

Publisher

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Varieties of English around the world (VEAW), 0172-7362 ; volume G63

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 63.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1493

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