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Exploring multilingual resources of U.S.-Nigerians on a Nigerian web forum - Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA. Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vii + 338. Hardback €105.00, ISBN 9789027207395

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Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA. Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vii + 338. Hardback €105.00, ISBN 9789027207395

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2021

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English Today , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 132 - 134
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