Cultural conceptualisations in Nigerian Pidgin English proverbs

This article explores Nigerian Pidgin English proverbs as a source of cultural conceptualisations that reflect traditional wisdom as well as the modern urban setting of West Africa. A total of 173 proverbs sourced from the BBC News Pidgin's Instagram service were analysed for recurrent lexical...

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Published inWorld Englishes Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 471 - 490
Main Author Callies, Marcus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2024
Subjects
Language culture relationship
Nigerian English
Pidgins
Proverbs
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