Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society. Vol I - Softcover
The book contains 77 papers (published in two volumes) meticulously selected from over 150 papers read at 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria. Table of Contents: The Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) and the Promotion of Language and Linguistics (Ayo Bamgbose) - Using Africa's Indigenous Languages as Tools for Sustainable Development: A Pragmatic Approach (Kola Owolabi) - Variations in Transmission of Message of Proverb between Hausa & Swahili Cultures (Xahiru Muhammad Argungu) - The Mass Media as an Agent of Cultural Transmission and Globalization: The Language Perspective (Sadiya Sani Daura) - Towards Investigating Perceived Endangerment Status of the Igala Language (Joseph Abuh) - Body Language as Social Dialect in Hausa Culture (Aliyu Mu'azu) - A Semantic Study of Obscenity and Verbal Abuses in Jukun (Butari Nahum Upah) - Honorifics in Igala (Abdullahi Ahmad) - Semantic Changes: An Annotative Exploration of Select Hausa Political Coinages (Khalid Imam) - Language in National Development: The Nigerian Perspective (Ndubuisi Ogbonna Ahamefula) - Religion: The Cultural Language of Order & Stability in Society (Bartholomew Chidili) - Study Hausa, Understand Kanakuru (Paul Newman) - An Overview of the Procedures & Guidelines for the Development & Approval of Orthographies of Nigerian Languages (Garba D. Gandu) - NEEDS Analysis of Igbo for Specific Purposes: The Case of Non-Igbo Speaking Youth Corps Members (Ndubuisi O. Ahamefula & Evelyn Ezinwanne Mbah) - Endangered Languages and Strategies for their Preservation in Nigeria (Ramlatu Jibir Daura) - Towards a Stable Orthography for Urhobo (Odirin Victor Abonyi) - Computerization and Preservation of West African Pre-colonial Manuscripts: A Case Study of Hausa Ajami (Yakubu Aliyu Gobir) - etc. Vol I: (Ch. 1-42).
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- PublisherLINCOM GmbH
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 3862886727
- ISBN 13 9783862886722
- BindingPaperback
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