Contemporary Nigerian English offers an engaging empirical exploration of Nigerian English in the twenty-first century, highlighting its historical development, present-day usage, and emerging linguistic features. Drawing on multiple sources of evidence, including naturally occurring language data, online corpora, social media discourse, and survey findings, the Element investigates how multilingualism, cultural diversity, and digital communication continue to shape the variety. It analyses salient features of Nigerian English across lexico-semantic, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic domains, while also considering the language ideologies and attitudes that inform its perception and use. By integrating structural linguistic analysis and sociolinguistic perspectives, the Element reveals how Nigerian English reflects the cultural identities, communicative practices, and cognitive worlds of its speakers. In doing so, it advances scholarship on World Englishes and contributes to broader discussions of linguistic variation and change in contemporary global contexts.
This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic develo...
This paper explores how contemporary Muslim women writers use English as a resource for linguistic decolonization. Based on a comparative analysis of selected literary texts, the study argues that English functions not only as a medium of communication but as a site of resistance and transformation. The analysis focuse...
Nigeria presents one of Africa's most extensive multilingual settings, with more than 500 indigenous languages interacting with English, Nigerian Pidgin, Arabic and French across education, government, commerce, media, health and digital communication. This article examines why linguistic challenges recur in multilingu...
I. A. Onyenwe· Social Science and Human Res...· 0 citations
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
This article examines the influence of English on Vietnamese in the context of globalisation, with particular attention to lexical borrowing, code-switching, digital discourse, and language attitudes. Grounded in contact linguistics, sociolinguistic theory, and language ideology studies, the paper uses a qualitative de...
P. Vũ· International Journal of Edu...· 0 citations
Nigerian Pidgin (NP) — a contact language born from centuries of trade and colonial interaction along the West African coast — has grown from a stigmatized “broken English” into one of the most widely used languages of everyday communication in Nigeria, spoken by tens of millions of people across ethnic and regional li...
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