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Finlayson, Rosalie and Sam Osadolo. 2007. 'Make una listen o…' Codeswitching as a means of accommodation among the do-speaking people of Nigeria. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 38 (2) : 195–209.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | acculturation | code-switching | colonialism

Language as a subject

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper focuses on do-English and English-do, as well as Pidgin English-do and do-Pidgin English codeswitching patterns in the do state of Nigeria and the social motivations, such as accommodation, underlying these patterns.