World Englishes on the Web

The Nigerian diaspora in the USA

Author
ORCID logoMirka Honkanen | University of Freiburg
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World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods—relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data—with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants’ language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages
[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020.  vii, 338 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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“Diaspora sociolinguistics is an increasingly relevant subfield that can produce detailed studies of communities affected and even created by globalization, and varieties of English studies is uniquely positioned to illuminate the dialect contact side of that coin. Honkanen’s project on diasporic CMD delivers on this promise in important ways. She provides a model for working with very large corpora in a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The rich illustrations of feature uses from the corpus, presented in more than 100 tables throughout the book, make it a treasure trove of examples for sociolinguists, students of varieties of English, and other related interests. Given the size of the corpus, even comparatively rare features are retrieved with hit numbers in the hundreds.”
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Heyd, Theresa
2023. Complicating the field. In New Englishes, New Methods [Varieties of English Around the World, G68],  pp. 243 ff. DOI logo
Honkanen, Mirka
2022. “This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic markers in Nigerian online communication. Journal of Pragmatics 202  pp. 93 ff. DOI logo
Honkanen, Mirka & Julia Müller
2021. Interjections and emojis in Nigerian online communication. World Englishes DOI logo
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2023. IEnglish Language. The Year's Work in English Studies 101:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Mair, Christian
2022. Nigerian English in Germany. World Englishes 41:2  pp. 296 ff. DOI logo
Mair, Christian
2022. Migration, media, and the emergence of pidgin‐ and creole‐based informal epicentres. World Englishes 41:3  pp. 414 ff. DOI logo
Muro, Loveluck & Foluke Unuabonah
2022. Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English. Language Matters 53:2  pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Olayinka Unuabonah, Foluke & Folajimi Oyebola
2023. “He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English 44:1  pp. 61 ff. DOI logo
Oyebola, Folajimi & Kingsley Ugwuanyi
2023. Attitudes of Nigerians Towards BBC Pidgin: A Preliminary Study. Language Matters 54:1  pp. 78 ff. DOI logo
Ugwuanyi, Kingsley Oluchi & Folajimi Oyebola
2022. Attitudes of Nigerian expatriates towards accents of English. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 58:3  pp. 541 ff. DOI logo
Unuabonah, Foluke & Noloyiso Mtembu
2023. Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 41:3  pp. 264 ff. DOI logo
Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka
2022. ‘Mehn! This wins the award’. English Today 38:3  pp. 143 ff. DOI logo
Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka & Jemima Asabea Anderson
2023. “You are quite funny paa!”: A corpus-based study of borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian English. Corpus Pragmatics 7:3  pp. 267 ff. DOI logo
Wilson, Guyanne
2023. British and American norms in the Trinidadian English lexicon. World Englishes 42:1  pp. 73 ff. DOI logo
Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal
2023. Conclusion. In New Englishes, New Methods [Varieties of English Around the World, G68],  pp. 263 ff. DOI logo

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CFB: Sociolinguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
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