Axel Bohmann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Axel Bohmann is involved.

Title

English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires

Axel Bohmann

This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.

Articles

Bohmann, Axel and Adesoji Babalola 2023 Verbal past inflection in Nigerian English: A case for sociolinguistic compound vision New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 16–41 | Chapter

We analyze variation in Nigerian English verbal past inflection on the basis of 2,989 verbs with past-time reference. Observations were extracted from the spontaneous conversations category of the International Corpus of English Nigeria and from two sets of sociolinguistic interviews. In… read more

Bohmann, Axel and Michael Westphal  The multilingual embedding of English in Nigerian pop music: A diachronic corpus study English World-Wide: Online-First Articles | Article

Research in World Englishes is increasingly turning its attention to processes “beyond and between the Three Circles” (Mair 2016), including contact among varieties and the interaction of global and local resources. This paper presents a diachronic study of language choice in Nigerian pop music.… read more