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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 381–403PDF of Zebrudaya's “Special” English Syntax as a Departure from Standard British English: Entertainment and Communicative Intelligibility

   Zebrudaya's “Special” English Syntax as a Departure from Standard British English: Entertainment and Communicative Intelligibility

   Edenowo T. Enang and Festus Uwakwe Ngwoke

   This study examines Zebrudaya’s “Special” English syntax as a departure from Standard British English, focusing on patterns of variation, entertainment, and communicative intelligibility. It compares the syntactic structures … varieties and investigates how Zebrudaya’s usage achieves meaning within its sociocultural context. The study is anchored in the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH), Speech Act Context, and Halliday’s Systemic