Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin

Deuber, Dagmar; Hinrichs, Lars

doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2007.00486.x

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“…These are not unrelated to similar features that have been discussed by Awonusi (2004a), Chiluwa (2008), Deuber & Hinrichs (2007) and Taiwo (2008).…”

Section: Spelling Peculiarities Of Informal Cmcsupporting

confidence: 78%

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Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication

Ifukor¹

2011

English Today

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Since its coinage by Hiltz and Turoff (1978) the term computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been adapted and broadly conceptualised as interactive communication by and among human beings via networked computers and mobile devices. Several definitions of CMC have been offered in the literature but Herring's (2007) definition of CMC as ‘predominantly text-based human–human interaction mediated by networked computers or mobile telephony’ is adopted in this article because it stresses the textual aspect of the communicative interaction and accommodates all forms of textual language use mediated by the Internet, the World Wide Web and mobile technologies. This approach to CMC focuses on the production, transmission and exchange of naturally-occurring text-based human language and highlights the fact that human beings (as opposed to automated or artificial systems) are both the agents or initiators and recipients of the communication under investigation. Although communication is not unique to humans, the ability to use human language for meaningful social interactions is the exclusive preserve of the human species. Thus the perspective human beings bring to virtual interactions is accounted for in CMC. Internet interlocutors (also known as online interactants, netizens or textizens in the case of regular SMS texts composers/senders) employ textual data to convey and exchange their thoughts, opinions, observations, feelings as well as messages from other people or sources (Ifukor, 2011). These interactive possibilities make CMC a technology, medium, and engine of social relations (Jones, 1995:11) and language use is at the core.

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“…These are not unrelated to similar features that have been discussed by Awonusi (2004a), Chiluwa (2008), Deuber & Hinrichs (2007) and Taiwo (2008).…”

Section: Spelling Peculiarities Of Informal Cmcsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The following are some of the recurrent spelling patterns in the Nigerian CMC: These are not unrelated to similar features that have been discussed by Awonusi (2004a), Chiluwa (2008), Deuber & Hinrichs (2007) and Taiwo (2008).…”

Section: Spelling Peculiarities Of Informal Cmcsupporting

confidence: 54%

Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication

Ifukor¹

2011

English Today

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“…What this means is that, as with many English‐based pidgins and creoles, users are left to their own devices when it comes to writing NP (cf. Deuber and Hinrichs, 2007: 23). Deuber and Hinrichs (p. 44) observe further, particularly with regard to Jamaican Creole (JamC) and NP:…”

Section: Discussion: Can Nigerian Pidgin Be Empowered?mentioning

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Empowering Nigerian Pidgin: a challenge for status planning?

Igboanusi

2008

World Englishes

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In spite of the fact that Nigerian Pidgin (NP) is probably the language with the highest population of users in Nigeria, it does not enjoy official recognition and is excluded from the education system. It lacks prestige because it is seen by many Nigerians as a "bad" form of English and associated with a socially deprived set of people. This paper explores the possibility of empowering NP (and its speakers) by raising the value of the language through status planning, especially in the education system. On the way to realising this goal, it analyses the attitudes of 200 educated Nigerians towards its use as well as towards steps aimed at empowering it. The results show that, although there is no consensus as to whether NP should be granted official status, a large majority of respondents did not favour its use in education. The study highlights three major problems associated with the promotion of NP: (1) lack of economic value, (2) perceived effects on the local languages, and (3) the effect of the use of NP on English language proficiency. The study discovers that empowering 1 NP is a challenge, which will be very difficult to overcome in the near future, and it suggests the way forward.

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“…Method and Experimental Setup Our goal is to create a classifier that identifies whether a sentence contains Naijá. English is significantly more frequent in our news dataset and therefore we downsample English to a 9:1 ratio following the As a primarily spoken language, Naijá has significant orthographic variation in its spelling (Deuber and Hinrichs, 2007). Therefore, we follow insights from language detection approaches (Lui and Baldwin, 2012;Jauhiainen et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2018) and adopt character-based features, which are more robust to such variation.…”

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Wetin dey with these comments? Modeling Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting Code-switching Behavior in Nigerian Online Discussions

Ndubuisi-Obi¹,

Ghosh

Jurgens

2019

Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Multilingual individuals code switch between languages as a part of a complex communication process. However, most computational studies have examined only one or a handful of contextual factors predictive of switching. Here, we examine Naijá-English code switching in a rich contextual environment to understand the social and topical factors eliciting a switch. We introduce a new corpus of 330K articles and accompanying 389K comments labeled for code switching behavior. In modeling whether a comment will switch, we show that topic-driven variation, tribal affiliation, emotional valence, and audience design all play complementary roles in behavior.

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Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin

Cited by 101 publications

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Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication

Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication

Empowering Nigerian Pidgin: a challenge for status planning?

Wetin dey with these comments? Modeling Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting Code-switching Behavior in Nigerian Online Discussions

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