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Publication details [#64461]

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka and Rotimi Olanrele Oladipupo. 2018. “You're not staying in Island sha o”: O, sha and abi as pragmatic markers in Nigerian English. Journal of Pragmatics 135 : 8–23.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreement | attention | borrowing | discourse marker | mitigation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

O, sha and abi are pragmatic markers borrowed from Nigerian indigenous languages into Nigerian English. The data were taken from the International Corpus of English-Nigeria. O is an emphasis marker and a mitigation marker. Sha is a discourse marker, an attention marker and a mitigation marker. Abi is a discourse marker and an agreement marker.