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Select bibliography for the centre's research projects (Bibiliografi dem wen yu fit yuz fo cpcs risach projet dem)

Agheyesi R. N. (1971) West African Pidgin English: Simplifications and Simplicity. Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, Ann Arbor: University of Microfilms International.

Appel, R. and P. Muysken (1987) Language Contact and Bilingualism. London: Edward Arnold.

Atkinson, J. and J. Heritage (eds.) (1984) Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chambers, J. K. (1995) Sociolinguistics Theory. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell.

Crystal, D. (1987, 1997) The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, D. (1992) Glossary. In W. Bright (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford university Press.

Decamp, D. (1971) The Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages. In Hymes (ed.) Pidginisation and Creolisation of Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 13-39.

Dike K. O. (1959) Trade and Polities in the Niger Delta, 1830 - 1885. London: Oxford University Press.

Dittimar (1976) Sociolinguistics: A Critical Survey of the Theories and Applications. London: Arnold

Egbokhare, F. O. (1999) The Story of a Language: Nigerian Pidgin in a Spatiotemporal, Social and Linguistic Context. Unpublished Paper.

Egbokhare, F. O. (2001) The Nigerian Linguistic Ecology and the Changing Profiles of Nigerian Pidgin. In H. Igboanusi (ed.) Language Attitude and Language Conflicts in West Africa Ibadan: Enicrownfit Publishers.

Elugbe, B. O. (1995) Nigerian Pidgin: Prospects and Problems. In A. Bamgbose, A. Banjo and A. Thomas (eds.) New Englishes: A West African Perspective. Ibadan: Monsuro.

Elugbe, B. O. and A. Omamor (1991) Nigerian Pidgin: Background and Prospects. Ibadan: Heinemann.

Esizimetor, D. O. (2002a) Toward a Theory of Language Contact in Nigeria. Paper presented at the International Conference on Politics, Society and Rights in Traditional Societies, Models and Prescriptions for Contemporary Nation Building (Institute of Benin Studies) University of Benin, Benin City, 16-17 May, 2002.

Esizimetor, David Oshorenoya (2002b) A Sociolinguistic Exploration of the Use of Pidgin in Advertising on Two Nigerian Radio Stations. An M.A Dissertation in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, August.

Fairclough, N. (1989) Language and Power. London and New York: Longman

Faraclas, N., O. Ibim, G. Woruko A. Minah, and A. Tariah (1983) Rivers State Pidgin English. JOLAN (Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria). 2: 181-198.

Fishman, J. A. (1965) Who Speaks What Language to Whom and When? Linguistics. 67-88.

Fishman, J. A. (1971) (ed) Advances in the Sociology of Language. The Hague: Mouton.

Gumperz, J. J. (ed.) (1982) Language and Social Identity: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hall, R. A. (1966) Pidgin and Creole Languages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Hudson, R. (1980) Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hymes, D. (1974) The Ethnography of Speaking. In B. Blount (ed.) Language, Culture and Society. Mass.: Winthrop, Cambridge. 189-223.

Hymes, D. (ed.) (1971) Pidginisation and Creolisation of Languages. London: Allen and Unwin.

Hymes, D (1972) Models of Interaction of language And Social Life. In J. Gumperz and D. Hymes (eds.) Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 35-71.

Igboanusi, H. (ed.) (2001) Language Attitude and Language Conflicts in West Africa. Ibadan: Enicrownfit Publishers.

Johnson, K (2001) Media and Social change: The Modernising Influences of Television in Rural India. Media, Culture and Society. 23: 47-169.

LePage, R. B. and A. Tabouret-Keller, (1985) -Acts of Identity: Creole-Based Approaches to Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Longe, V. U. (1995) Studies in the Varieties of Language. Benin City: Headmark Publishers.

Mann, C. (1993) The Sociolinguistic Status of Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin: An Overview. In International Journal of Sociology of Language n100-101 p167-78.

Mann, C. (1997) Language, Mass Communication, And National Development: The Role Perceptions and Potential of Anglo-Nigeria Pidgin in the Nigeria Mass Media. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language in Development, 3rd. Langkawi, Malaysia, July 29 - 31.

Marchase, L. and Schnukal (1980) Nigerian Pidgin English: A Progress Report. Paper Presented at the First Conference of Linguistics Association of Nigeria. July 24-26, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Negrine, R. (1989) Politics and the Mass Media in Britain. London and New York: Routledge.

Nerlich, B. (1990) Change in Language: Whitney, Breal, and and Wegener. London and New York: Routledge.

Pride, J. B. and J. Holms (eds.) (1972) Sociolinguistics: Selected Readings. Harmondsworth.

Reinecke, J. E. (1964) Trade Jargons and Creole Languages as Marginal Languages. In D. Hymes (ed.) Language in Culture and Society. New York: Harper and Row, 534-546.

Rickford, J. R. (1992) Pidgins and Creoles. In W, Bright (ed.) International Encyclopædia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Todd, L. (1974) Pidgins and Creoles. London: Routeledge.

Todd, L. (1984) Modern English: Pidgins and Creoles. Oxford: Blackwell.

Trudgill, P. (1983) Sociolinguistics 2nd. edn. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Tschumi (1978) Theory of Culture. Lagos: Nok Publishers (Nig) Ltd.

Wardhaugh, R. (1998) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 3rd Edition. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.