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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"pidgin"”.
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
In the history of pidgins and creoles, many documented contact languages are European-based ones because they arose as a direct result of European colonial expansion between the sixteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, contact languages are developing entirely outside …
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Young Saudis' Attitudes toward Saudi Pidgin Arabic
… the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, toward Saudi Pidgin Arabic (SPA), an Arabic-Asian pidgin language. Though SPA is widely used among foreign workers and between employers and their foreign workers, little is known about the specific attitudes of the young Saudi generation toward this stigmatized …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
… Guinea. It was originally an English lexifier pidgin language and has developed as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin covers a large number of varieties due to the various …
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Nigerian Pidgin: The Identity of a Nigerian Away from Home
… Nigerian-Canadian speakers engage with Nigerian Pidgin (NP) and how their linguistic behaviors reflect broader socio-cultural and educational trends. Despite being Nigeria’s most widely spoken language, NP has historically been marginalized and perceived as a ‘broken’ form of English (Agheyisi, …
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Nigerian Pidgin English in Cape Town: exploring speakers’ attitudes and use in diaspora
Nigerian Pidgin English is widely spoken in different parts of the country and “has been called the native language of a substantial population of people in the Niger Delta, particularly in the Sapele and Warri areas” (Igboanusi, 2008: 68). According to Balogun (2012: 90), “Nigerian Pidgin English …
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Exploring the emergence of an incipient English Pidgin in Kuwait: A continuum of bilingual behaviour
… was created. Despite the literature presenting pidginization as an extreme form of language restructuring, it has become increasingly widespread around the world (Rickford & McWhorter, 1997). The occurrence of an incipient trade pidgin variety is investigated, focusing on Kuwaiti-Migrant …
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From gee to haw (and everything in between): Deconstructing the transspecies pidgin of mushing in northern Saskatchewan
… deconstructs the Gee Haw transspecies pidgin of settler origin mushing in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Through a focus on multisensory methodological inquiry, I describe interspecies communication and human perceptions around nonhuman knowledge in the context of sled dog racing. This …
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An Identity and Certificate Manager
… in a plugin for a popular chat-client, called Pidgin. The plugin allows users to engage in authenticated communication over any of the chat protocols supported by Pidgin, such as Jabber and Oscar (AIM). The plugin relies on ICE to provide assurances about users' identities and to efficiently …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
… heritage languages such as Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin English in the diaspora in terms of language maintenance and shift? To the researcher's current knowledge, there is no study on language maintenance and shift with regard to Nigerian Pidgin and Yoruba in Cape Town. Therefore, there is no …
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Lot 17 and Other Stories
… 17,” realism in "Fatness”, southern gothic in "Pidgin”. The story "Dancing Boy at the Intersection” experiments in form and point of view. Combined, these stories offer various ways for readers to participate in short fiction.
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Language variation and change: A case study of Shaba Swahili
… corrupt, deteriorated, and sub-standard or pidgin variety of East African Swahili (EAS).
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Football fandom, glocalisation and the ‘Man United in Pidgin’ Twitter community: a study of the glocal village created through the social media practices of a Twitter account dedicated to West African Manchester United Football Club’s fans
This thesis on ‘Man United In Pidgin’s (MUIP’s) Twitter account discusses how the glocalisation of Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) made possible via that account assists the construction of a postcolonial West African masculine online identity or fandom. MUIP is an unofficial MUFC’s social …
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Prior Pidginization and Creolization in Moroccan Arabic
… makes a claim about the processes of prior pidginization and creolization, and a process of current decreolization in Moroccan Arabic (a colloquial dialect of Arabic spoken in Morocco). The claim of this thesis is based on the theory of pidginization and creolization in Arabic as posited by …
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Prior Pidginization and Creolization in Moroccan Arabic
… makes a claim about the processes of prior pidginization and creolization, and a process of current decreolization in Moroccan Arabic (a colloquial dialect of Arabic spoken in Morocco). The claim of this thesis is based on the theory of pidginization and creolization in Arabic as posited by …
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Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
… one shared language (Arawak) alongside a Carib pidgin that was spoken only by the men when engaging in trade with South American mainlanders. Central to this dissertation is the application of theories in contact linguistics to explain how it was possible that a group of Africans could have …
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English-derived words in Sierra Leone Krio
… theories about the origins, and definitions of pidgin and creole languages. It also discusses the historical and linguistic background to Krio, tentatively postulates an acrolect-basilect continuum and undertakes to describe the dynamic state of native Krio speech. The section ends with a …
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A - Y: Of ‘British Chinese’ Art
… diaspora and ‘home,’ and the inevitability of ‘pidgin’ languages and cultures. These essays seek to identify various historical and cultural contexts to inform the coincident and divergent aesthetic strategies and thematic concerns of a number of peer practices, among them my own, which is …
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Associating adverse drug effects with protein targets by integrating adverse event, in vitro bioactivity, and pharmacokinetic data
… target predictions obtained with the tool PIDGIN, with drug plasma concentrations compiled from literature, such as Cmax. Compared to a constant bioactivity cut-off of 1 uM, using the ratio of the unbound drug plasma concentration over the drug potency, i.e. Cmax/XC50, results in different …