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How the English Language Became the Global Lingua Franca. The English language didn’t seal its current status as the world’s common language until the late 1980s. Let’s explore the steps that led up to the adoption of a new international language.
importance of the English language in Nigeria is not in terms of the number of its speakers (where it may not rank among the first three. languages spoken in the country), -but in terms of the variety of. functions that the English language performs when compared with. Nigeria's indigenous languages.
The number of its speakers, the frequency of its uses and the range of its functions have been expanding ever since its first formation from local jargons of Antera Duke's type when the need for an interethnic lingua franca arose. Increasing social and geographical mobility have continuously added to this expansion.
The paper found that English language is a foreign and an imposed one, it has so far been the most expedient language for Nigeria"s politics, administration and lingua franca, has on one...
Abstract. The use of the English language in Nigeria dates back to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century when British merchants and Christian missionaries settled in the coastal towns called Badagry, near Lagos in the present day South Western Nigeria and Calabar, a town in the present day South Eastern Nigeria.
- Rotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo
- 2009
Feb 26, 2024 · This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic hegemony, following Phillipson’s 1992 framework. It scrutinizes English’s role in the...
Jan 22, 2015 · The chapter considers the evolution, relevance, and utility of the constructs English as a lingua franca (ELF) and lingua franca English (LFE) described in the applied linguistics and world Englishes literatures.
