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SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER

Authors: IDOWU Olubunmi

Publication Type: Chapters in Books

Journal: Gammar Applied Linguistics And Society/obafemi Awolowo University Press

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Sociolinguistics is a linguistic field that studies the different kinds of interactions between language and society. The various forms of interactions between the two variables form the basis of any sociolinguistic study. Although there abounds an inexhaustible source of possible sociolinguistic studies due to the dynamic nature of the human society economically, educationally, politically, culturally, socially, and even religiously, one major aim of any sociolinguistic study is to derive a theory which provides a motivated account of the ways language is used in a community as well as the choices people make when they use language. It is a linguistic discipline that seeks:

The linguistic forms used in a speech community and their social functions/ meaning.
The social factors that motivate people to use one set of forms rather than the other or in preference to another.
The explanation for why some specific social factors lead to the use of one set of linguistic forms rather than another (Holmes2013:2).

The focus of this paper is to investigate the various possible sociolinguistic consequences of the various interactions between English Language and the Christian religion in Nigeria. The approach to this work is historical and descriptive in order to account for the mutual relations between the two major variables, using a sample Nigerian Christian sermon. Specifically speaking, the sociolinguistic implications of the use of English in a Nigeria Christian sermon will be explicated.

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IDOWU,O. . (0000). SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER, 1 (), 486-486.

IDOWU,O. . "SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER" 1, no (), (0000): 486-486.

IDOWU,O. and . (0000). SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER, 1 (), pp486-486.

IDOWUO, . SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER. 0000, 1 ():486-486.

IDOWU,Olubunmi , . "SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER", 1 . (0000) : 486-486.

I.Olubunmi , "SOME THOUGHTS ON A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN NIGER" vol.1, no., pp. 486-486, 0000.

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