Peculiarities of Lexical-Semantic System of Nigerian English
The article deals with the peculiarities of the functioning of the Nigerian territorial, or regional, variety of English. English in Nigeria has the status of the official language, which unites representatives of different ethnic groups, and is the language of politics, economy, judiciary, mass media, education. The research points out the main causes of globalization of the English language, explores the key linguistic and cultural factors that influenced the development of the territorial variety of Nigerian English. The author pays special attention to the idea of lexical innovations, preserving the regional values and retaining some possibility of fixing the specific features of the culture of Nigeria in dictionaries. In connection with the сentral place of the word meaning in linguistics, which has a complex system of hypotheses, theories, concepts, patterns in each of its branches, it is possible to observe mobility of the vocabulary of the language. It is primarily related to fixing the newly appeared words in the dictionary demonstrating the change in the notion scope and content of phenomena of reality.