Henning Schreiber

List of John Benjamins publications for which Henning Schreiber plays a role.

Articles

Schreiber, Henning and Mirjam Möller Nwadigo 2025 Chapter 12. The sociolinguistics of English in the plurilingual ecology of Lagos (Nigeria): A pilot study on class, ethnicity, and entrepreneurshipWorld Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 258–290 | Chapter
Nigeria as a country is characterized by a highly diverse language ecology. In Nigerian mega-cities such as Lagos, English is the official language and dominant in media and education. Language attitudes and choices in Nigeria follow particular trends (Igboanusi 2008). However, language… read more
Beyer, Klaus and Henning Schreiber 2013 Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West AfricaThe Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Article
This paper investigates the outcomes of contact-induced language change in two neighboring speech groups (Pana and Northern Samo) in an African multilingual setting. It describes the historical and social conditions of the area as a prerequisite for the understanding of linguistic contact processes. read more