Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author s rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its...