Semantics of occupational lexis in Nigerian English  

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Alabi, Victoria A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 1 (2000), page 107-112.
Fulltext: WE_19-01_2000_Alabi.pdf (71.19KB)

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This paper describes forms of semantic re-investment of occupational lexical items in Nigerian English. Three categories and two subcategories of re-investment are identified: shift, generalisation, narrowing (subcategories of `shift'), re-assignment, and analogy. These types of semantic re-investment are considered within a socio-cultural and linguistic setting of Nigeria as a developing country. The paper also discusses the intranational and international intelligibility and implications of such semantic re-investment.

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