The Case for Promoting the Nigerian Pidgin Language
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 27 (4), 679-684
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00020504
Abstract
Nigeria is a nation of tremendous socio-cultural diversities – in historical background, ethnicity, religion, belief, and especially language, which more often than not is the strongest factor giving identity, harmony, and continuity to ethnic groups, shaping the perceptions of their members. John Paden sees language as ‘a major mechanism of social communication between sub-systems …and… of expressing values, culture and ethnicity within a sub-system’.1 It is easy to see, in this light, how the most difficult problems of the entire political fabric of Nigeria are related to its great diversity of language.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Pidgin in Nigerian journalismPaper in Linguistics, 1981