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2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria
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Adebisi Afolayan
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface VII
- Contents IX
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria 13
- 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles 27
- 4. Acceptability in Context 39
- 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability 63
- 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language 73
- 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery 87
- 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina 103
- 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar 133
- 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language 149
- 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions 163
- 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English 179
- 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context 203
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface VII
- Contents IX
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria 13
- 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles 27
- 4. Acceptability in Context 39
- 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability 63
- 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language 73
- 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery 87
- 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina 103
- 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar 133
- 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language 149
- 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions 163
- 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English 179
- 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context 203
