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Download full textBamiro, Edmund O. – 1994
An analysis of lexical innovation in Ghanaian English uses ten linguistic categories identified in earlier research on Nigerian English, offering an explanation of each category and a number of examples. The categories include: loanshifts (English words manipulated to produce and transmit meanings beyond purely denotative reference and conveying a…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, English, Fiction
