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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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39. Rule-Based Machine Translation: An Interface between Formal and Natural Language Syntax. |
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Endangered languages -- Nigeria.
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Endangered languages. |
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Nigeria. |
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Linguistic minorities -- Nigeria.
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Linguistic minorities. |
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Language and culture -- Nigeria.
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Language and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri. Language Endangerment : Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages in Nigeria. : M and J Grand Orbit Communications, ©2015 9789785412727 |
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9789785421514 (electronic book) |
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9785421511 (electronic book) |
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