Apart from the occurrence of now as a temporal adverb and as an attention pragmatic marker, there is the existence of a third type of now which until now has not been explored in Nigerian English. This paper, examines the phonetic properties, meaning, frequency, syntactic patterns, and extended discourse-pragmatic functions of an indigenised now in Nigerian English. The paper takes its data from conversations in the International Corpus of English-Nigeria and analyses this nativised now from a grammatical-pragmatic approach. The results reveal that this third type of now has adopted the tonal structure of some indigenous Nigerian languages and occurs mainly at the final position of utterances. This Nigerian indigenised now performs only interpersonal functions as it serves as an emphasis marker and as a mitigation marker.

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尼日利亚英语中 now 的扩展语篇语用用法

除了作为时间副词和注意语用标记的now之外，还有第三种now的存在，直到现在尼日利亚英语还没有探索过。本文探讨了拼音性质，意义，频率，句法模式，并indigenised的扩展语篇语用功能目前在尼日利亚的英语。该论文从国际英语-尼日利亚语料库中的对话中获取数据，并从语法-语用的角度分析了现在的本土化。结果表明，这第三种类型的现在采用了一些尼日利亚土著语言的声调结构，主要出现在话语的最后位置。这个尼日利亚本土人现在只执行人际交往功能，因为它可以作为强调标记和缓解标记。