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Peer reviewedBrann, C. M. B. – Linguistics, 1975
This article is a qualitative sociolinguistic profile of the present language situation in Nigeria. The home, the government, religion, holidays and leisure activities, education, work, the market, clubs, and mass media are described in their relation to language types and functions. (SCC)
Descriptors: African Languages, Bini, Diglossia, Hausa
Peer reviewedBrann, C. M. B. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1986
Describes how triglossia in Nigerian education lies in the complementary distribution of languages by functions, with the languages of home, community, and school corresponding roughly to the affective, conative, and cognitive psychological categories. Provides a triglottic model which describes actual function of language in education in Nigeria.…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
