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Author Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri

Title Language Endangerment : Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages in Nigeria
Published M and J Grand Orbit Communications, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (680 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; 1. Language Documentation: A Dependable Linguistic Practice for Minimizing the Effects of Endangerment on Languages in Nigeria; 2. Language Endangerment: Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages in Nigeria; 3. Threats to Mother Tongues in Nigeria: Strategies for Revitalisation; 4. The Use of Nigerian Languages in Radio Broadcasts; 5. Applying Systemic-Functional Linguistics to Safeguard Indigenous Genres; 6. Towards the Preservation of the Gure Language; 7. Towards the Preservation of the Tyap Language
8. Play Songs and Peer Group Activities as Resources for Revitalising the Tiv Language9. Measures to Safeguard the Etulo Language; 10. The Fate of the English Language in Nigeria in the Cyber Age; 11. A Thematic Study of Jean la Fontaine's Fable & Chinyereude's Chant: Implications for Minority Languages; 12. Translating Scientific Terms into Indigenous Languages: A Case for African Technological Development; 13. Translating Texts in English into Sleeping Languages: Basic Issues for Consideration; 14. Translation Endangerment: An Appraisal of Barriers
15. Harnessing Linguistic Resources for Effective Translation: A Way of Preserving the Status of a Language16. Translating Technical Texts: The Igbo Language Example; 17. The Igbo Language before, during, and after the Biafra War (1500 to Present) in Nigerian: The Igbo Question; 18. Broadcasting in African languages: The Case of the Igbo language; 19. The Imperatives of Nigerian Languages in Sustainable Development; 20. Sociopragmatic Significance of 'Sound and Fury' in the Nigerian Political Context; 21. Linguistic Communication Pitfalls
22. The Use of Shared Knowledge and Symbols in Jukun Proverbs23. Encyclopaedic and Mutual Knowledge as Pragmatic Determiners in Hausa Discourse; 24. A Pragmatic Analysis of some Selected Political Billboards Advertisement in Nasarawa Metropolis; 25. Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in The Potter's Wheel; 26. Metaphor: A Tool in every Hand; 27. Stylistic Peculiarities of Public Speeches; 28. A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of the Language of The Forest of God Translated by Gabriel A. Ajadi; 29. An Analysis of Linguistic System and Linguistic Context: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective
30. Orientation as an Ultimate Parameter for the Lexical Signs in the Hausa Sign Language31. A Comparative Study of the Rhythm of Fulfulde and Hausa; 32. Phonological Processes in Verb Inflection in C'lela; 33. Exploring Polar Syntactic Effects of Verbal Extensions in Basà; 34. Negation Marking in Defaka; 35. Phonological Neutralisation among Nigerian Users of English; 36. La Pluralisation des Noms en Français et En Fulfulde: Procédés et Marques; 37. Subject-Complement Agreement in Bassa; 38. The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English and Kambari
Summary This commemorative volume is the 12th edition in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series devoted to Professor (Mrs.) Appolonia Uzoaku Okwudishu. The majority of the papers were presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (CLAN) which was held at the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria, and the 26th CLAN which was held at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The title derives from the theme of the 27th CLAN: Language Endangerment: Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages in Nigeria. A large number of the papers address the major theme of the conference, while the balance address various aspects of Nigerian linguistics, languages, communication, and literature. Fifty-one papers are included, ranging from sociolinguistics through applied linguistics to formal areas of linguistics which include phonology, morphology and syntax of Nigerian languages. Papers on language endangerment and language revitalisation strategies for safeguarding the vanishing Indigenous tongues of Nigeria are the major focus, and the book serves as important reference material in various aspects of language and linguistic studies in Nigeria
Notes 39. Rule-Based Machine Translation: An Interface between Formal and Natural Language Syntax
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Subject Endangered languages -- Nigeria
Linguistic minorities -- Nigeria
Language and culture -- Nigeria
African history.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Endangered languages
Language and culture
Linguistic minorities
Nigeria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789785421514
9785421511