Language Use among Road Transport Workers in Abeokuta Metropolis, Ogun State, Nigeria
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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Language use among informal social groups in the society has not been accorded its right of place, as these groups of individuals tend to be looked down upon by most people in the society. However, the oratorical skills, and the creativity they exhibit through language use tend to contribute immensely to the vast repertoire of language in the society. Though assumed to be filled with oddities, absurdities, vulgarity and obscenities, language use among road transport workers is usually mutually intelligible. It is filled with numerous linguistic and extra-linguistic features and richly laden with multiplicity of linguistic flavour deployed in achieving specified objectives. This study was therefore carried out to investigate language use among road transport workers in Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis. The Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory provided the theoretical anchor for the study, while the descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative instrument were adopted for the study. The study identified Yoruba and Pidgin English as the languages mostly used by road transport workers in Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis. The features of the languages identified in this study indicate coinages, code mixing, neologism, code switching and slangs which are found to be prominent in the languages identified in the study. The languages were used for salutation, deliberate deception, cracking expensive jokes, expressing amplifications, carrying out bulldozing
effects, expressing knowledge of places, disabusing the minds of people and so on. Basically, languages are used to execute specified functions among road transport workers in the various Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis.
Keywords: Abeokuta Metropolis, Language use, Nigeria, Ogun State, Road Transport Workers
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Abeokuta Metropolis, Language use, Nigeria, Ogun State, Road Transport Workers
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Kate Turabian