In:World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
[Varieties of English Around the World G63] 2020
► pp. 47–70
Chapter 4Data and methods
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g63.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g63.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Web forums as a data source
- 4.1.1Nairaland: A Nigerian web forum
- 4.1.2Nairaland as a virtual community
- 4.2Corpus compilation and composition
- 4.2.1The “World languages – digital languages” project
- 4.2.2The Nairaland 2 corpus
- 4.2.3The Net Corpora Administration Tool
- 4.2.4The core 50 subcorpus
- 4.3Global comparisons: The Corpus of Global Web-based English
- 4.4Methods of analysis
- 4.5Legal and ethical issues
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