“He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI:10.1075/eww.21065.ola

Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Folajimi Oyebola

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Abstract

This study examines the use of general extenders in Nigerian English, from a variational corpus-pragmatic framework, with British English as a reference variety. The data are extracted from the Nigerian and British components of the International Corpus of English . The results reveal that Nigerian English has patterns of use of general extenders that differ systematically from British English. Overall, Nigerian English users employ general extenders less frequently than British English users, as a result of a low preference for disjunctive extenders; there are no significant differences in the frequency of adjunctive and other general extenders between Nigerian and British English users. The study also identifies variants of general extenders unique to Nigerian English such as and all that one, and and other things (like that). In all, the results indicate that register and regional differences play important roles in determining general extender usage among English users.

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"他是个律师，你知道的"

本研究从变分语料库-语用框架出发，以英式英语为参照系，考察了尼日利亚英语中一般扩展词的使用情况。这些数据是从国际英语语料库的尼日利亚和英国部分提取的。结果表明，尼日利亚英语的一般扩展词的使用模式与英国英语有系统的差异。总体而言，尼日利亚英语用户使用一般扩展词的频率低于英国英语用户，这是由于他们对析取扩展词的偏好较低;尼日利亚英语使用者和英国英语使用者在使用助词和其他一般扩展词的频率上没有显著差异。该研究还确定了尼日利亚英语特有的一般扩展词的变体，如和所有那个，和其他东西(像那样)。总之，研究结果表明，语域差异和地区差异在决定英语使用者普遍使用扩展语方面起着重要作用。

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期刊介绍： English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.