作为尼日利亚英语结构性本土化来源的皮金英语谚语

IF 0.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI:10.1111/weng.12699

Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola

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摘要

在本文中，我们探讨了尼日利亚皮金英语（NPE）谚语在语言接触环境中的作用及其对尼日利亚英语（NgE）成语短语发展的影响。在一组 100 个 NPE 谚语中，我们确定了词性关键词，作为在大规模 Nairaland 语料库中进行搜索的锚点，以检测重复出现的搭配模式，这些模式在进一步的近似性搜索中产生了频繁的、词汇语法上可变的模式，可被解释为成语形成早期阶段的创新。研究结果表明，在认知动机的驱使下，NPE谚语中的关键词项可以作为形成多变但在词汇-语法上更加凝练的成语表达的基础。

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Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English

In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect recurrent collocational patterns that in further proximity searches yielded frequent, lexico‐grammatically variable patterns that may be interpreted as innovations at the early stages of idiom formation. The findings suggest that cognitively motivated key lexical items of NPE proverbs may serve as a basis for the formation of variable but also lexico‐grammatically more condensed idiomatic expressions in NgE.

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World Englishes Multiple-

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3.90

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： World Englishes is integrative in its scope and includes theoretical and applied studies on language, literature and English teaching, with emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives and identities. The journal provides recent research, critical and evaluative papers, and reviews from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas. Thematic special issues and colloquia appear regularly. Special sections such as ''Comments / Replies'' and ''Forum'' promote open discussions and debate.