Although the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English
around the world, no study of the Nigerian variety intended for the international market has …

This paper proposes that global popular culture and, specifically, hip‐hop music offers
prospective sites for examining interaction between varieties of English in the context of …

This study explores the power of English in Nigeria following Kachruvian six parameters of
the power of English. The paper indicates that the range and depth of English in Nigeria …

In this chapter, 1 I shall be concerned with the effects of globalization and the spread of
English language as the lingua franca of the globalized world. My focus will be on Latin …

The overarching aim of this thesis is to delineate the place of English in Kuwait using
Schneider's (2003; 2007) Dynamic Model. The model posits that postcolonial varieties of …

Braj Kachru proposes a redefinition of the concept of 'nativeness' of English, and advanced
this proposal by distinguishing between 'genetic nativeness' and 'functional …

The term 'LAFA'stands for 'locally acquired foreign accent'and refers to a style of speech
popularly known in Ghana as 'slurring'. It emerged in the 1990s, as a mainly phonological …

My main contention in this article is that the nation‐state paradigm for policies targeted at
effecting development in sub‐Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries …

This article explores one underestimated aspect of language in migration settings, namely
the experience of not being in full control of circumstances and doing. Recent research has …

We analyze variation in Nigerian English verbal past inflection on the basis of 2,989 verbs
with past-time reference. Observations were extracted from the spontaneous conversations …