Nigerian Pidgin In Lagos

by Deuber, Dagmar

• ISBN13: 9781903292105
• ISBN10: 1903292107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Battlebridge Pubns

Summary

This sociolinguistic study of Nigerian Pidgin, an English-based contact language widely used in Nigeria alongside Standard English and nearly 500 indigenous languages, argues that though Nigerian Pidgin is lexically based on English, it is a language in its own right with a stable structure, important functions, and potential for further development.

Author Biography

Dagmar Deuber is assistant professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Table of Contents

The CD	iv
Acknowledgements	v
Transcription conventions	vii
Map 1a Nigeria. Major geographical features and state divisions 1976-87	viii
Map 1b Nigeria -- Present state divisions	ix
Map 2 Nigeria -- Languages	x
Map 3 Metropolitan Lagos	xi
Four locations in Lagos where NigP is typically spoken	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Language contact, variation and change: theoretical and methodological background	13	(32)
Nigerian Pidgin in its sociolinguistic context	45	(14)
Aspects of language variation and change in Nigeria	59	(12)
Educated NigP in face-to-face speech and radio broadcasts: the corpus study	71	(90)
Nigerian Pidgin as spoken by less educated speakers: analysis of additional recordings	161	(22)
Language planning for Nigerian Pidgin: problems and prospects	183	(18)
Conclusions and future outlook	201	(10)
Appendix A: The questionnaires	211	(8)
Appendix B: Results of the questionnaire study of corpus extracts	219	(28)
Appendix C: Interviews (summary only; full version on CD)	247	(2)
Appendix D: Samples of written Nigerian Pidgin	249	(6)
References	255	(14)
Index	269