Efurosibina Adegbija
List of John Benjamins publications for which Efurosibina Adegbija plays a role.
Articles
2001. Language and Attitude Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 133/134, pp. 271–301
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2001. Review of DLRVEN, VERSPOOR, de Caluwé, Geeraerts, Goddard, Grondelaers, Pöings, Radden, Serniclaes, Soffritti, Spooren, Taylor, Vazquez, Wierzbicka & Winters (1998): Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 131/132, pp. 171–178
Review
2001. Review of Niemeier & René (2000): Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Studies in Language 25:3, pp. 631–637
Review
1994. The context of language planning in Africa: An illustration with Nigeria. Language Contact and Language Conflict, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 139–163
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1994. The Candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as a National Language. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 105/106, pp. 1–23
This paper examines arguments for and against the candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as an official language. Potent buttressing arguments include its widespread use at the grassroots level; its apparent cultural neutrality; and the ease in acquiring it. Arguments against its candidature include its… read more | Article
1994. Survival Strategies of Minority Languages. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 103/104, pp. 19–38
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1989. The Implications of the Language of Instruction for Nationhood. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 85/86, pp. 25–50
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1987. Speech Act Functions. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 76, pp. 43–62
This paper examines samples of spoken data with a view to elucidating the problem of the performing of speech acts in a Second language context of English usage. The encoding and decoding of speech acts, the author shows, involve a network of cognitive processes in which the linguistic competence… read more | Article