The Nollywood cultural effect in Zimbabwe: manifestation of Nigerian lingo in everyday discourses

The Nollywood films, Nigeria’s greatest cultural export, have had phenomenal cultural impact in Zimbabwe. Deploying a theoretical gaze grounded in the social learning theory and notions of linguistic diffusion, lexical and pragmatic borrowing, this article explores the manifestation of lexis, accent...

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Main Author: Mpofu, Phillip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1941064
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4834
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