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- Title
English in a Nigerian linguistic landscape.
- Authors
ADETUNJI, AKIN
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Studies on Nigerian contexts have not been greatly documented in the linguistic landscape (LL) literature, despite the country's sociolinguistic significance in Africa. This qualitative study, examines how sign-producers put layering, an aspect of linguistic landscaping, to meaning-making uses in Ìbàdàn, a major Nigerian city. By analyzing and illustrating with purposively sampled photographic data, answers were sought to two main questions: (1) how meaningful is layering to the Ìbàdàn linguistic landscape; (2) how does this situation of layered signs align with the literature on layering in linguistic landscape research?
- Subjects
IBADAN (Nigeria); NIGERIA; ENGLISH language; LINGUISTIC landscapes; ENGLISH language -- Social aspects; SIGNAGE -- Design &; construction; MULTILINGUALISM -- Social aspects
- Publication
World Englishes, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 4, p654
- ISSN
0883-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/weng.12158