Mending the Schizo-Text: Pidgin in the Nigerian Novel
Domaine:
natural language processingType de record:
paper
Créateur:
Cha
Hôte:
Post-colonial West African writers writing in English may have been too scripturally schizophrenic, too busy with the dichotomy mother tongue/ other tongue, to account fully for the presence of auxiliary contact languages in their writing. Yet it is in that space in-between, in the contact language itself, that writers like Kafka and Louis Wolfson2 have nestled to redefine writing in the mother tongue. I will here examine how Pidgin has insinuated itself into the very texture of Nigerian writing, at first under the decorative guise of an unobtrusive, 'auxiliary' language confined to dialogues and, subsequently, as the potential vehicle for multilingual and cross-cultural hybridized poetics.
Similaires
A transformer-based approach to Nigerian Pidgin text generationasr-nigerian-pidgin/nigerian-pidgin-1.0Web-Scraped Nigerian Pidgin English Text Dataset from Digital News PlatformsThe Case for Promoting the Nigerian Pidgin LanguageThe Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin EnglishThe prosody of preverbal markers in Naijá : Applying a novel intonosyntactic treebank format to a corpus of Nigerian Pidgin