Linguistic Marketing in "... a marketplace of ideas": Language choice and intertextuality in a Nigerian virtual community

Pragmatics and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-147

  Ifukor, Presley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intercultural pragmatics; Interdiscursive code switching; Intertextuality; Nigerian computer mediated communication; Nigerian Village Square; Online deliberation; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861749096     PISSN: 18789714     EISSN: 18789722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ps.2.1.06ifu     Document Type: Article

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