奥莫，你还在等什么？omo在奈及利亚多语线上互动中的语篇语用输入

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.011

Rotimi Oladipupo, Aderonke Akinola

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本文对尼日利亚多语网络互动中借用的一个双语语用项目进行了研究，以确定其使用频率、句法特征、搭配模式和语篇语用功能。这些数据是从全球网络英语语料库的尼日利亚部分提取出来的，并在语用借用和后殖民语料库语用学的框架内进行定性和定量分析。研究结果表明，omo（约鲁巴语中的借词，在英语中翻译为“孩子”）经常出现在尼日利亚多语言在线互动的话语开头位置，并具有延伸的意义和功能。它在网络评论中充当一个号召词，用来挑出一个特定的收件人并引起他们的注意，它也是一个感叹词，可以表达不同程度的情绪，强调不同的言语行为。该研究确立了语言资源在多语言情境下的持续相互作用。

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Omo, what are you waiting for? The discourse-pragmatic imports of omo in Nigerian multilingual online interactions

This paper examines a borrowed bilingual pragmatic item omo in Nigerian multilingual online interactions to establish its frequency, syntactic features, collocational patterns and discourse-pragmatic functions. The data are extracted from the Nigerian component of the Global Web-based English corpus and analysed qualitatively and quantitatively within the framework of pragmatic borrowing and postcolonial corpus pragmatics. The findings show that omo, a Yoruba loan translated as ‘child’ in English, is routinely found at utterance-initial position in Nigerian multilingual online interactions and has assumed extended meaning and functions. It serves as a vocative among online commenters to single out a specific addressee and gain their attention, and as an interjection that signals various shades of emotions and emphasises different speech acts. The study establishes the continuous interplay of linguistic resources in a multilingual situation.

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Journal of Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.90

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18.80%

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219

期刊介绍： Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.