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A. Onoja

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ACQUIRE A NIGERIAN

Obins Nuhu, Chinelo J. Ezekulie, A. Onoja · 0 citations

Open access 2026

WHEN WORDS ACQUIRE A NIGERIAN LIFE: PRAGMATIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL MOTIVATIONS OF SEMANTIC VARIATION IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH

Words acquire meaning through use, and use takes place within social worlds. This paper examines the pragmatic and sociocultural motivations of semantic variation in Nigerian English through a corpus-assisted analysis of selected content words. It draws on a preselected lexical dataset established from earlier document...

Obins Nuhu Isaac, Chinelo J. Ezekulie, A. Onoja · International Journal of Edu... · 0 citations