The Standardization of Nigerian Pidgin English

Agheyisi, Rebecca N.

doi:10.1075/eww.9.2.06agh

Article published In: English World-Wide
Vol. 9:2 (1988) ► pp.227–241

Get fulltext from our e-platform

Download PDF

The Standardization of Nigerian Pidgin English

Rebecca N. Agheyisi | Dept of Linguistics, University of Benin, Nigeria

Published online: 1 January 1988

https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.9.2.06agh

Cited by (17)

Cited by 17 other publications

Order by:

Abidoye, Mary Ifeoluwa & Hans‐Georg Wolf

2025. Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English. World Englishes

Tosin Gbogi, Michael

2022. Language, identity, and urban youth subculture. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 171 ff.

Mazzoli, Maria

2021. The ideological debate on Naijá and its use in education. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English 42:3 ► pp. 299 ff.

Oyebola, Folajimi & Ulrike Gut

2020. Nigerian newscasters’ English as a model of standard Nigerian English?. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 56:4 ► pp. 651 ff.

Moody, Andrew

2019. World Englishes in the Media. In The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, ► pp. 652 ff.

Yakpo, Kofi

2016. “The only language we speak really well”: the English creoles of Equatorial Guinea and West Africa at the intersection of language ideologies and language policies. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2016:239

Yakpo, Kofi

2020. Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa. In Advances in contact linguistics [Contact Language Library, 57], ► pp. 61 ff.

Akande, Akinmade T.

2010. Is Nigerian Pidgin English English?. dig 18:1 ► pp. 3 ff.

Bamiro, Edmund

2009. Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting by Dagmar Deuber. World Englishes 28:2 ► pp. 275 ff.

DEUBER, DAGMAR & LARS HINRICHS

2007. Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin. World Englishes 26:1 ► pp. 22 ff.

Görlach, Manfred

1996. The typology of dictionaries of English-based pidgins and Creoles. In Contrastive Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 291 ff.

Zabus, Chantal

1996. “Wɔta Don Pas Gari”: EnPi as the Post-Ethnic Voice in Nigeria. In Voix éthniques, ethnic voices. Volume 2, ► pp. 37 ff.

Pandey, Anita & Anjali Pandey

1993. NIGERIAN ENGLISH TODAY. World Englishes 12:3 ► pp. 401 ff.

BAMIRO, EDMUND O.

1991. Nigerian Englishes in Nigerian English literature. World Englishes 10:1 ► pp. 7 ff.

BAMIRO, EDMUND O.

1991. The social and functional power of Nigerian English. World Englishes 10:3 ► pp. 275 ff.

[no author supplied]

2003. Pidgin and Creole English. In A Survey of Modern English, ► pp. 471 ff.

[no author supplied]

2018. Bibliographie. In Le palimpseste africain, ► pp. 271 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 9 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.