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4 results for “Nigerian English”
Chukwudi E. Onu, Sarah L. Bennett
Chinua Achebe described his English as ‘a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings’. This review reads that claim as an ethics of translation and traces its influence on later Nigerian writer…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsAdaeze N. Okafor, Tobenna Eze
Teachers in Nigerian secondary schools routinely move between English and Igbo, yet official policy treats such switching as a lapse. Drawing on forty hours of recorded lessons in four Nsukka schools, this study examines when and why teachers switch codes. The…
Education and PedagogyEfe M. Oghene
Public radio stations increasingly broadcast news in Nigerian Pidgin. Combining listener surveys in Warri and Benin City with analysis of bulletin scripts, this study asks whether Pidgin news reaches audiences that English news does not. It finds that Pidgin b…
Communication and Media StudiesNkechi L. Okoli, Yusuf A. Danjuma
Shop signs, billboards and posters make language visible in the city. This study photographs and analyses 1,200 signs in three districts of Enugu to map the use of English, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin and other languages. English dominates official and commercial si…
Language, Literature and Linguistics