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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 311–332PDF of A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   A Corpus-Assisted Sociopragmatic Study of Access, Ideology, and the Making of "Educated" Speech in Nigerian English-Pidgin Discourse

   Andrew Ikpomwosa Egbah and Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo

   Educated Nigerian English functions as a prestige variety, often contrasted with Nigerian Pidgin. Although sociopragmatic research views this distinction as interactionally constructed, cross-status discourse remains underexamined. This study investigates … analysis of the Corpus of English and Nigerian Pidgin Code-switching (CENCOS). Adopting a sociopragmatic orientation, the study uses Teun A. van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of discourse