RACIALISING ENGLISH
It is racism, rather than anything else, that leads Western linguists to regard speakers of English in the ‘first diaspora’ countries as native speakers but speakers of English in the ‘second diaspora’ countries are regarded as ‘non-native’ speakers
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Countries such as the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia belong to what Kachru refers as the ‘first diaspora’ (Kachru, 1992). The ‘first diaspora’ refers to the way in which English was transported to the countries of the ‘New World’ which experienced settler colonisation...
Jan 26, 2020 • 11 tweets • 12 min read
Nigerian English Words in Oxford Dictionaries: My Role as the Consultant
I’m extremely pleased to be part of the project which saw the inclusion of 29 Nigerian English words in Oxford Dictionaries. I’m all the more pleased with the reception, especially in Nigeria
...but also in other places. The widespread positive reception points to one obvious fact: that Nigerians are proud of their own. While battling with a feeling of vainglory, I’m extremely excited that the release will serve as a forerunner of my doctoral work which argues that...
