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ASPECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH BASED PIDGIN IN THE SOUTH – SOUTH REGION ...
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ASPECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH BASED PIDGIN IN THE SOUTH – SOUTH REGION ...
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Abstract:
Abstract Pidgin-English has become a common linguistic code of communication in the South-South region of Nigeria. Like many other languages, the lexicon of Pidgin-English has expanded to express new ideas, concepts, objects and new realities. It is indeed, evident that innumerable new words are needed in Pidgin-English in the South-South region to handle ever increasing linguistic needs of the speakers/users of the language. The paper examines some aspects of lexical features in Pidgin-English. Content Analysis model (CA) is used in examining textual information and utterances recorded in Pidgin-English with the aim to ascertain the processes of lexical formation of Pidgin-English in the South-South region. The paper identifies that borrowing, creativity, calquing, reduplication among other factors are processes through which Pidgin-English lexicon in the South-South is formed. The paper observes that Pidgin-English has developed a large number of lexical items to help its speakers/users communicate ...
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Nigerian English, Pidgin-English,linguistic code,language and communication
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/3685263 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3685263
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