Efurosibina Adegbija
Biographic Data
| ID | 92965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Efurosibina Adegbija |
| GIVEN NAMES | Efurosibina |
| FAMILY NAME | Adegbija |
| SIGNATURE | ADEGBIJA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ilorin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Language Policy and Planning in Nigeria
This monograph describes the language planning situation in Nigeria, one of the most multilingual countries in Africa. It is divided into four sections. The first section presents the language profile of Nigeria and provides a background of the general language situation in the country. The second section discusses language spread and use. It focuses particularly on language in education and the media. The core section of the monograph investigat…
Language and Attitude Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The semantics of 'okay' (OK) in Nigerian English
This paper investigates the contexts in which 'okay' is used in Nigerian English. While some of these senses may readily be accessible to the speakers of English in other contexts because they are basic and literal, many others, such as its use to convey a rebuke, a bye bye, or the termination of discourse, an ironical affirmation of authority, etc. could pose problems for non-Nigerians because their senses are anchored in the Nigerian sociolingu…
Language attitudes in West Africa
This study presents an overview of language attitudes in West Africa, tapping from a variety of methodological approaches, including the ethnographic, the questionnaire, and participant observation, which have been used by earlier scholars in their investigations. The importance of language attitudes for West Africa is examined: the language-attitude molders and shapers in West Africa are identified and the patterns of language attitudes within t…
The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria
Article The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1997, issue 125)
Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as a National Language
This paper examines arguments for and against the candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as an official language. Potent buttressing arguments include its widespread use at the grassroots level; its apparent cultural neutrality; and the ease in acquiring it. Arguments against its candidature include its stigmatization; its lack of a cultural base; queries over its bona fide indigenous status; its being a threat to the mastery and use of "standard" Englis…
Survival Strategies of Minority Languages
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English and indigenous languages in Kwara State (Nigeria)
The Implications of the Language of Instruction for Nationhood
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Lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English
This study describes some aspects of lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English. The causes and types of variation are discussed within a sociolinguistic framework. Typical Nigerian English innovations are related to the local socio‐cultural and linguistic context of Nigerian culture and society. Five major classes of lexico‐semantic variation are identified: transfer, analogy, acronyms, semantic shift or extension, and coinage or neologisms. …
Teaching English in Nigeria
English is still taught in Nigerian universities more or less as it is taught in the English‐speaking world. The paper examines features of the pragma‐sociolinguistic context of English in Nigeria to suggest alternative models more adapted to the Nigerian context. Four features of the use of English in Nigeria are discussed: (1) the ambivalence in Nigerian attitudes to English, which is seen both as a prestigious international language and as a c…
A comparative study of politeness phenomena in Nigerian English, Yoruba and Ogori
My friend, where is Anini
Speech Act Functions
This paper examines samples of spoken data with a view to elucidating the problem of the performing of speech acts in a Second language context of English usage. The encoding and decoding of speech acts, the author shows, involve a network of cognitive processes in which the linguistic competence of the participants, their world knowledge, their psychological state, and their knowledge of socially and culturally relevant factors of the situation …
Lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English
This study describes some aspects of lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English. The causes and types of variation are discussed within a sociolinguistic framework. Typical Nigerian English innovations are related to the local socio‐cultural and linguistic context of Nigerian culture and society. Five major classes of lexico‐semantic variation are identified: transfer, analogy, acronyms, semantic shift or extension, and coinage or neologisms. …
The semantics of 'okay' (OK) in Nigerian English
This paper investigates the contexts in which 'okay' is used in Nigerian English. While some of these senses may readily be accessible to the speakers of English in other contexts because they are basic and literal, many others, such as its use to convey a rebuke, a bye bye, or the termination of discourse, an ironical affirmation of authority, etc. could pose problems for non-Nigerians because their senses are anchored in the Nigerian sociolingu…
A comparative study of politeness phenomena in Nigerian English, Yoruba and Ogori
Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language Policy and Planning in Nigeria
This monograph describes the language planning situation in Nigeria, one of the most multilingual countries in Africa. It is divided into four sections. The first section presents the language profile of Nigeria and provides a background of the general language situation in the country. The second section discusses language spread and use. It focuses particularly on language in education and the media. The core section of the monograph investigat…
Language attitudes in West Africa
This study presents an overview of language attitudes in West Africa, tapping from a variety of methodological approaches, including the ethnographic, the questionnaire, and participant observation, which have been used by earlier scholars in their investigations. The importance of language attitudes for West Africa is examined: the language-attitude molders and shapers in West Africa are identified and the patterns of language attitudes within t…
The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria
Article The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1997, issue 125)
My friend, where is Anini
English and indigenous languages in Kwara State (Nigeria)
Speech Act Functions
This paper examines samples of spoken data with a view to elucidating the problem of the performing of speech acts in a Second language context of English usage. The encoding and decoding of speech acts, the author shows, involve a network of cognitive processes in which the linguistic competence of the participants, their world knowledge, their psychological state, and their knowledge of socially and culturally relevant factors of the situation …
My friend, where is Anini
The Implications of the Language of Instruction for Nationhood
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Lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English
This study describes some aspects of lexico‐semantic variation in Nigerian English. The causes and types of variation are discussed within a sociolinguistic framework. Typical Nigerian English innovations are related to the local socio‐cultural and linguistic context of Nigerian culture and society. Five major classes of lexico‐semantic variation are identified: transfer, analogy, acronyms, semantic shift or extension, and coinage or neologisms. …
Teaching English in Nigeria
English is still taught in Nigerian universities more or less as it is taught in the English‐speaking world. The paper examines features of the pragma‐sociolinguistic context of English in Nigeria to suggest alternative models more adapted to the Nigerian context. Four features of the use of English in Nigeria are discussed: (1) the ambivalence in Nigerian attitudes to English, which is seen both as a prestigious international language and as a c…
A comparative study of politeness phenomena in Nigerian English, Yoruba and Ogori
The Candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as a National Language
This paper examines arguments for and against the candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as an official language. Potent buttressing arguments include its widespread use at the grassroots level; its apparent cultural neutrality; and the ease in acquiring it. Arguments against its candidature include its stigmatization; its lack of a cultural base; queries over its bona fide indigenous status; its being a threat to the mastery and use of "standard" Englis…
Survival Strategies of Minority Languages
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English and indigenous languages in Kwara State (Nigeria)
The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria
Article The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1997, issue 125)
Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language attitudes in West Africa
This study presents an overview of language attitudes in West Africa, tapping from a variety of methodological approaches, including the ethnographic, the questionnaire, and participant observation, which have been used by earlier scholars in their investigations. The importance of language attitudes for West Africa is examined: the language-attitude molders and shapers in West Africa are identified and the patterns of language attitudes within t…
Language and Attitude Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The semantics of 'okay' (OK) in Nigerian English
This paper investigates the contexts in which 'okay' is used in Nigerian English. While some of these senses may readily be accessible to the speakers of English in other contexts because they are basic and literal, many others, such as its use to convey a rebuke, a bye bye, or the termination of discourse, an ironical affirmation of authority, etc. could pose problems for non-Nigerians because their senses are anchored in the Nigerian sociolingu…
Language Policy and Planning in Nigeria
This monograph describes the language planning situation in Nigeria, one of the most multilingual countries in Africa. It is divided into four sections. The first section presents the language profile of Nigeria and provides a background of the general language situation in the country. The second section discusses language spread and use. It focuses particularly on language in education and the media. The core section of the monograph investigat…
Linguistics (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works)