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Chapter 8 Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Postcolonial Corpus Pragmatic Approach
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Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Acknowledgement IX
- Introduction 1
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I The Lexicon
- Chapter 1 The Meanings of “Madam” in Kenyan English Usage 11
- Chapter 2 Context and Recontextualisation of Selected Isomorphic Lexical Choices: An Intercultural Approach 31
- Chapter 3 The Pragmatics of Nigerian English Usages in Selected Magistrate Court Sessions 51
- Chapter 4 Communicating Political Ideologies Through Health-Related Messages 73
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II Formulaic Language
- Adapting and Creating English Idioms and Other Fixed Expressions in the Kenyan Sociocultural Context 97
- Chapter 6 The Pragmatics of Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Case Study of Abimbola Adelakun’s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs 121
- Chapter 7 Putting Bad English to Good Use: Towards a Humour Variety of Nigerian English 145
- Chapter 8 Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Postcolonial Corpus Pragmatic Approach 167
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III Speech Acts
- Chapter 9 Ghanaian English Characteristics in Apology Reactions 193
- Chapter 10 Greeting and Leave-Taking in Ugandan English 215
- Chapter 11 Locutions of Educated Nigerian English in Selected Instagram Blogs 247
- Chapter 12 Analysis of Four Presidential Campaign Promises in Contemporary Ghanaian Politics 265
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IV Pragmatic Markers
- Chapter 13 No Shame in Shame: Analysis of a South African English Pragmatic Marker 293
- Chapter 14 Indexes and Orientations of Pragmatic Inexactitudes in Nigerian Hospital Communication 317
- Chapter 15 A Token of the Pragmatic Simplification of English: Nàa in Cameroonian Colloquial English and Beyond 341
- Chapter 16 Power, Role and Identity in Ghanaian Courtrooms: What the Discourse-Pragmatic Marker Oh Unveils 363
- Chapter 17 English Pragmatic Markers in Nigerian Journalists’ Boko Haram Terrorism Reports 387
- Chapter 18 General Extenders in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study 405
- Index 431
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Acknowledgement IX
- Introduction 1
-
I The Lexicon
- Chapter 1 The Meanings of “Madam” in Kenyan English Usage 11
- Chapter 2 Context and Recontextualisation of Selected Isomorphic Lexical Choices: An Intercultural Approach 31
- Chapter 3 The Pragmatics of Nigerian English Usages in Selected Magistrate Court Sessions 51
- Chapter 4 Communicating Political Ideologies Through Health-Related Messages 73
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II Formulaic Language
- Adapting and Creating English Idioms and Other Fixed Expressions in the Kenyan Sociocultural Context 97
- Chapter 6 The Pragmatics of Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Case Study of Abimbola Adelakun’s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs 121
- Chapter 7 Putting Bad English to Good Use: Towards a Humour Variety of Nigerian English 145
- Chapter 8 Proverbs in Nigerian English: A Postcolonial Corpus Pragmatic Approach 167
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III Speech Acts
- Chapter 9 Ghanaian English Characteristics in Apology Reactions 193
- Chapter 10 Greeting and Leave-Taking in Ugandan English 215
- Chapter 11 Locutions of Educated Nigerian English in Selected Instagram Blogs 247
- Chapter 12 Analysis of Four Presidential Campaign Promises in Contemporary Ghanaian Politics 265
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IV Pragmatic Markers
- Chapter 13 No Shame in Shame: Analysis of a South African English Pragmatic Marker 293
- Chapter 14 Indexes and Orientations of Pragmatic Inexactitudes in Nigerian Hospital Communication 317
- Chapter 15 A Token of the Pragmatic Simplification of English: Nàa in Cameroonian Colloquial English and Beyond 341
- Chapter 16 Power, Role and Identity in Ghanaian Courtrooms: What the Discourse-Pragmatic Marker Oh Unveils 363
- Chapter 17 English Pragmatic Markers in Nigerian Journalists’ Boko Haram Terrorism Reports 387
- Chapter 18 General Extenders in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study 405
- Index 431
