Jul 2026· Kazan Journal of Historical, Linguistic, and Legal Research· Vol 168, pp. 115-129· 0 citations· 18 references
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This article explores the characteristics distinctive to fixed expressions used in the Nigerian English media discourse. The general extent to which traditional British and American English fixed expressions are transformed under the conditions of media bilingualism in Nigerian English was determined. Using a comparative analysis, the most and least common types of grammatical and lexico-semantic transformations were established. Inverted word order and the omission of articles and prepositions were identified as the most typical grammatical transformations. Lexical substitution and noticeable shifts in meaning compared with standard English usage were found to be the most frequent lexico-semantic transformations. The results show that Nigerian English media often incorporate fixed expressions from autochthonous languages in order to better describe the local lifestyle. The conclusion reached is that the grammatical and lexicosemantic adaptation of fixed expressions in the Nigerian English media discourse is driven by the need to follow Nigerian cultural norms and by the interference of indigenous Nigerian languages.
Nowadays, the increasing use of English words combined with Indonesian affixes in digital communication has given rise to a unique form of linguistic innovation that reflects the interaction between the local and global language. This research aims to analyze how Indonesian affixes influence the morphological structure...
Language change is continuous and vital for the sociocultural adaptation and status development of language varieties. Perhaps the most important linguistic feature of Nigerian English language change is semantic extension which refers to the process whereby terms already existing in English (standard English) acquire...
Elsie Meelubari Worgor, Florence Nne Agwu· International Journal of Hum...· 0 citations
Prefixation is a morphological process which studies how morphemes are affixed in the beginning of their host words for either grammatical functions or for lexical expansion and derivation. This paper investigates aspects of the grammar of prefixation in English and Igbo Languages. It adopts a comparative theoretical f...
Okolo N Patrick, Florence Nne Agwu· World Journal of Advanced Re...· 0 citations
Borrowing words from one language into another traces several changes in their original meanings. So, in morphological process of borrowing of words from source language of Arabic into target language of English, a constant change of meaning is observed. The present study used to explore semantic innovation of Arabic b...
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Muele-Gabriel Ewonu, Florence Nne Agwu· Iconic research and engineer...· 0 citations
This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis dra...
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