The very first time that I was ever “appreciated” in the elliptical idiom or grammar of Nigerian christian religiosity, it was with a bag of rice. The “appreciator” was a pastor, a man of the cloth.

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Anita Fetzer is Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg. Her research encompasses pragmatics, discourse analysis and discourse grammar. She has made contributions on ...