Glocal English : The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World.
Title:
Glocal English : The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World.
Author:
Kperogi, Farooq A.
ISBN:
9781453914946
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Edition:
0
Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; v.96
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One: Conceptual Issues in Nigerian, American, and British English -- Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Nigerian English -- Chapter 2: Are There Native English Speakers in Nigeria? -- Chapter 3: Comparing Broken English, Pidgin English, and Nigerian English -- Chapter 4: American English, British English, and "Bastardization" -- Chapter 5: Grammatical Dialectics and the Politics of Meaning and Usage in English -- Chapter 6: Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English -- Chapter 7: The African Origins of Common English Words -- Part Two: Comparisons of Nigerian, American, and British English Usage -- Chapter 8: Nigerianisms, Americanisms, Briticisms, and Communication Breakdown -- Chapter 9: Top Hilarious Differences between American and Nigerian English -- Chapter 10: Grammatical Errors Common to Americans and Nigerians -- Chapter 11: Comparing the Vernaculars of American, British, and Nigerian Universities -- Chapter 12: Grammar of Titles and Naming in British, American, and Nigerian English -- Part Three: English Usage in the Nigerian News Media -- Chapter 13: The English of the Nigerian News Media -- Part Four: Peculiar Expressions in Nigerian English -- Chapter 14: Nigerian English's Unique Telephonic Vocabularies -- Chapter 15: Top Cutest and Strangest Nigerian English Idioms -- Chapter 16: Back-formation and Affixation in Nigerian English -- Chapter 17: Most Popular Mangled Expressions in Nigerian English -- Chapter 18: Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English -- Chapter 19: Top Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English -- Chapter 20: When Food and Grammar Mix -- Chapter 21: Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce -- Part Five: Politics and Nigerian English Usage -- Chapter 22: Grammar of Nigerian Politics -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
<I>Glocal English</I> compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world's two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world's fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author's rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its similarities as well as its often humorous differences with British and American English. Although Nigerian English forms the backdrop of the book, it will benefit teachers of English as a second or foreign language across the world. Similarly, because it presents complex grammatical concepts in a lucid, personal narrative style, it is useful both to a general and a specialist audience, including people who study anthropology and globalization. The true-life experiential encounters that the book uses to instantiate the differences and similarities between Nigerian English and native varieties of English will make it valuable as an empirical data mine for disciplines that investigate the movement and diffusion of linguistic codes across the bounds of nations and states in the age of globalization.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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