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World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
[Varieties of English Around the World G63] 2020
► pp. 47–70

Chapter 4
Data and methods

Article outline
  • 4.1Web forums as a data source
    • 4.1.1Nairaland: A Nigerian web forum
    • 4.1.2Nairaland as a virtual community
  • 4.2Corpus compilation and composition
    • 4.2.1The “World languages – digital languages” project
    • 4.2.2The Nairaland 2 corpus
    • 4.2.3The Net Corpora Administration Tool
    • 4.2.4The core 50 subcorpus
  • 4.3Global comparisons: The Corpus of Global Web-based English
  • 4.4Methods of analysis
  • 4.5Legal and ethical issues
  • Notes