Nigerian English in informal email messages

Chiluwa, Innocent

doi:10.1075/eww.31.1.02chi

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“…In some cases, these official titles may be combined with first person pronouns such as My HOD. Such examples have been noted in Chiluwa (2010) where he cites examples such as My Prof in email messages. On some occasions, a term like HOD may be used in order to get a request done as an interviewee notes:…”

Section: Official and Occupational Titlesmentioning

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“…As Chiluwa (2010) observes, Nigerians have a title-conscious tradition, which transcends the academic setting. Moreover, the clipped terms, prof and doc are used to indicate familiarity between the addresser and addressee (see also Chiluwa [2010] for the use of prof as salutations in Nigerian informal email messages). These clipped items are also usually used when the interactants are close as they occur in banter amongst friends.…”

Section: Academic Titlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

Unuabonah¹

2018

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This paper examines the forms and functions of address terms employed among staff members and the language ideologies that inform the use of these address forms in a southwestern Nigerian university. The study is guided by Anchimbe’s (2011a) categorisation of address forms, and theories on language ideologies. The data are collected through participant-observation, oral and written interviews, and these are analysed qualitatively. The analysis reveals that forms of address used in the university include academic titles, official titles, kinship terms, social titles, nicknames, first names, surnames, and different combinations of these address forms. The address terms are derived from English, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin and other indigenous Nigerian languages. The address forms are informed by postmodernist and functionalist language ideologies which are influenced by cultural ideologies where interactants’ cultures play significant roles in the choice of address terms.

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Section: Official and Occupational Titlesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Academic Titlesmentioning

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Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

Unuabonah¹

2018

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“…Mientras que en los países occidentales la repercusión de los estudios lingüísticos sobre la comunicación en Internet es manifiesta, en África podemos destacar la labor llevada a cabo por algunos autores nigerianos como Chiluwa (2010aChiluwa ( , 2010b, quien ha publicado y editado varias obras con repercusión internacional que tratan de la creación de la identidad nigeriana en los correos electrónicos en inglés de Nigeria o sobre la pragmática de las llamadas cartas nigerianas.…”

Section: La Comunicación Electrónica En áFrica Y Camerúnunclassified

“…A pesar del gran alcance académico de estas publicaciones, su área de influencia se limita, en gran medida, al mundo occidental, mientras que en otros continentes como el africano, todavía no han alcanzado su máximo desarrollo. En África, en efecto, el estudio de la repercusión de Internet en la vida diaria de los ciudadanos y en el ámbito académico está en un estadio incipiente, exceptuando algunos casos como el de Chiluwa (2010aChiluwa ( , 2010b, aunque poco a poco va ganando espacio y despertando el interés de la comunidad universitaria. En Camerún, la ausencia de investigaciones sobre la comunicación electrónica es aún si cabe más patente por la escasa penetración de Internet que ha obligado a que nuestro estudio se centre en un género específico de la comunicación electrónica: las cartas de bienvenida a las instituciones de educación superior.…”

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El discurso público de la universidad: estudio socio pragmático contrastivo de Camerún, España y Francia

Pérez-Sabater

Moffo

2018

CLAC

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The informalization and conversationalization of public discourse in the latter part of the twentieth century is a complex phenomenon that has been well documented in English speaking societies. This article parts from Fairclough's (1995) premises to analyse how this phenomenon is taking place in Romance languages with a similar technological development in comparison to the discourse practices of a country where the penetration of the Internet in the everyday life of its _____________

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“…Adverts, questions, rendezvous immediate and ongoing, rendezvous near future, events, instructions, reminders, jokes, sign on , sign off, gossip, dates, information-personal, informationcommercial, information-operational In Nigeria, some studies (e.g. Awonusi, 2004;Chiluwa, 2010) have shown that the linguistic forms and practices of the English of SMS text messages have become so popular among the youth (16-25) and young adults (25-45).…”

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confidence: 99%

Innovations and Reproduction in Second Language (L2) New Media: A Discursive- Semiotic Study of Selected SMS Text Messages in Nigeria

Opeibi¹,

Oluwasola²

2013

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Since the turn of the new millennium, the new media has continued to alter the communication configuration in modern societies. The social media tools have been influencing the way we interact and communicate. These wireless networks have confirmed that our world has indeed become a global village by creating a superhighway for communication possibilities never witnessed in human history. While scholars have explored the roles of some of the new media platforms e.g. Facebook blogging, and twitter for private and public discourses(e.g., Taiwo, 2010; Presley, 2010, 2012), previous studies in the use of SMS in Nigeria have concentrated more on sociolinguistic, lexical, or morphosyntactic features of text messages (e.g., Awonusi, 2004; Chiluwa, 2010). The present study, however, considers aspects of the new media discourse strategies as resources in a second language setting that demonstrate users' bilingual creativity. It adopts a discursive-semiotic approach in its analytical paradigm to examine how participants, sharing the mobile protocols, deploy linguistic and non-linguistic facilities as well as contextual resources to create relationship and to enact meaning. The approaches of Discourse Analysis (DA) and Semiotics (Schiffrin, 1994; Chandler, 2001) as well as insight from Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), and Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA)(Herring 2001, 2004; O'Riley, 2005; Herring, 2007) provide the theoretical underpinning for this study. CMC and CMDA, for instance, have been used as tool kits to study and to explain how the new media technologies influence the strategies with which language users within a given virtual sphere engage a wide range of audience through the virtual protocols. The study finds that the use of text messages has opened up creative ways of deploying the resources of a non-native language (English) among bilinguals in Nigeria. The outcome of this innovative and reproduction process confirms the emergence of varieties of new media-based discursive practices in English that reflect the socio-cultural contexts of the communicative event.

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Nigerian English in informal email messages

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

El discurso público de la universidad: estudio socio pragmático contrastivo de Camerún, España y Francia

Innovations and Reproduction in Second Language (L2) New Media: A Discursive- Semiotic Study of Selected SMS Text Messages in Nigeria

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