Languages in Competition: The Struggle for Supremacy Among Nigeriaâ s Major Languages, English and Pidgin

Igboanusi, Herbert,Peter, Lothar

ISBN 10: 3631527209 / ISBN 13: 9783631527207

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler, 2004

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0003450205

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Languages in Competition: The Struggle for Supremacy Among Nigeriaâ s Major Languages, English and Pidgin
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631527209
• ISBN-13: 9783631527207
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the authors investigate the issue of language conflict situations in Nigeria resulting from the contact of Nigeria's indigenous languages with one another as well as with English and Pidgin English. The study captures patterns of language preference with the help of a survey of language attitudes and loyalties covering five Nigerian states. This book provides essential material for researchers and students in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics as well as for educationists and language policy specialists.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Authors: Herbert Igboanusi teaches sociolinguistics at the University of Ibadan. He has worked on Nigerian English usage and Igbo English in Nigerian novels.
Lothar Peter teaches linguistics (English, sociolinguistics, LSP) at Humboldt University Berlin. His recent publications deal with varieties of English in Africa and West African English-related pidgins/creoles.