Henning Schreiber
List of John Benjamins publications in which Henning Schreiber is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 12. The sociolinguistics of English in the plurilingual ecology of Lagos (Nigeria): A pilot study on class, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 258–290 | Chapter
Nigeria as a country is characterized by a highly diverse language ecology. In Nigerian mega-cities such as Lagos, English is the official language and dominant in media and education. Language attitudes and choices in Nigeria follow particular trends (Igboanusi 2008). However, language… read more
2013 Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Article
This paper investigates the outcomes of contact-induced language change in two neighboring speech groups (Pana and Northern Samo) in an African multilingual setting. It describes the historical and social conditions of the area as a prerequisite for the understanding of linguistic contact processes. read more