On the context of situation

Peng, Fred C.C.

doi:10.1515/ijsl.1986.58.91

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“…Given the above facts, it is suggested that a sociolinguistic and social-psychological framework, similar to those proposed by Halliday (1978), Halliday and Hasan (1985), Hasan (1978Hasan ( , 1985, Giles and Powesland (1975), and Peng (1974Peng ( , 1986, provides us with a framework that can explain lingusitic behavior in societies. In the following analysis I will specifically use the concepts field and tenor in the sense in which these concepts have been used in systemic linguistics [see Halliday (1978), and Halliday and Hasan (1985)l.…”

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“…the cluster of socially meaningful participant relationship, both permanent attributes of the participants and role relationships that are specific to the situation" (Halliday, 1978: 143). However, the concepts of field and fenor would be linked with Peng's (1986) insight. In the context of the analyses done in this study, insight means the attempt to achieve an explanation or interpretation of what the text is about when it is measured against or placed in the 'context of situation' as a background.…”

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The social and functional power of Nigerian English

Bamiro

1991

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This paper employs the frameworks of sociolinguistics and social psychology to explore the social and functional power of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) as it is featured in the novels of two prominent Nigerian authors, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. It is argued that, although NPE has not risen to the position of the acrolect or the prestige variety, its social and functional power as an interpreter of the Nigerian social structure cannot be discounted. Thus, the analyses undertaken in this study not only demonstrate how NPE exposes the tension and conflict between the dominant and dominated groups in Nigeria, but also how it reveals the contempt and anger the dominated have for the dominant. NPE thus becomes a code that symbolizes the solidarity of the dominated class in Nigeria. Furthermore, the analyses not only demonstrate how the dominant class use NPE as an accommodation strategy, but also how some privileged members of the dominated groups employ NPE to maintain their communicative and social distance, thereby enforcing power relations and neutralizing cultural norms. The analyses also show how the codes of the dominated groups in Nigeria become the vehicle by which they are further exploited and subjugated by the dominant class.

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The social and functional power of Nigerian English

Bamiro

1991

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“…The instances are labelled I --X. The data were translated and analyzed according to Insight theory of Peng (1986).…”

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The Manifestation of Code Switching Among 3 Year-Old Yoruba/English Semilinguals

Olajoke¹,

John²

2013

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Communication is the most symbolic function of language. Hence, The present study explored the manifestation of code switching with reference to ten selected 3 year-old school children .Code switching as a sociolinguistic phenomenon has been studied by various scholars but efforts have not been made to assess its manifestation among school children in the context of Yoruba/English. The Yoruba language serves as the children first language and the English language serves as the second language (L2). The children at this acquisition age code-switch for diverse reasons and these showed that the manifestation of code switching at this age is distinct from that of adult since the children are at the language acquisition stage. With a critical focus, the paper presents appealing case studies and analysis that are useful in gaining deeper insights into reasons that make code switching as a linguistic phenomenon an unavoidable ornament in the beautification process of language learning of children known as language acquisition.

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“…Given the social stratification in Nigeria (where the linguistic polarization between the dominant and dominated groups, mirrored through code-alternation in Soyinka's and Achebe's novels, reflects the social polarization between the ''powerful'' and ''powerless'' social classes in the country), and the fact that Nigeria is fractured along ethnic and religious lines, it is suggested that a sociolinguistic and social-psychological framework, similar to those proposed by Halliday (1978), Halliday and Hasan (1985), Hasan (1978Hasan ( , 1985, Giles and Powesland (1975), and Peng (1974Peng ( , 1986, provides us with a framework that can explain linguistic behavior in societies. Consequently, in the ensuing analyses, I will specifically use the concepts of field and tenor in the sense in which these concepts have been used in systemic-functional linguistics, but will link these concepts with Peng's insight.…”

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The politics of code‐switching: English vs. Nigerian languages

Bamiro¹

2006

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The present study explores the politics of code-switching with reference to the novels of two prominent Nigerian authors, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. In addition to drawing a theoretical distinction between overt and covert modes of code alternation, the study points out that at the primary degree of delicacy, code-switching not only reveals the tensions and conflicts in the Nigerian social structure, but this linguistic phenomenon is also used to mark identity, solidarity, exclusion from an in-group membership, status manipulation, and social and communicative distance. At the secondary degree of delicacy, the politics of code-switching reveal that in the sociolinguistic balance of power, English dominates the local languages identified in the study. The sociolinguistic situation described in the study is thus symptomatic of the linguistic situation in Nigeria generally where the local languages are in a subtractive polyglossic relationship with English. Subtractive polyglossia, in turn, results in the Nigerian English users' subtractive bilingualism and linguistic schizophrenia. And unless urgent steps are taken to redress the geolinguistic imbalance between English and Nigeria's minority languages in the hierarchy of code functions, Nigeria's local dialects -except Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba -face continuous decline and degeneration, if not possible death.

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On the context of situation

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The social and functional power of Nigerian English

The social and functional power of Nigerian English

The Manifestation of Code Switching Among 3 Year-Old Yoruba/English Semilinguals

The politics of code‐switching: English vs. Nigerian languages

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