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A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Code Switching And Code Mixing In Selected Jenifa’s Diary Episodes
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On the other hand, by virtue of communicative configuration, imitated
speech can be used. It should be stressed that Jenifa’s Diary allows for
a dramatized discourse; it can create, correlate, and contrast
different speakers. By so doing, it imitates real life scenarios of the
deployments of different languages in a typical oral discourse among
Nigerians.
But on a lighter yet more serious note, this trend might
not be bad, but it definitely ain’t productive. And why do something
unproductive when the time could be better spent doing the opposite. And
for those arguing that English is not our mother tongue, it might not
be our mother tongue, but it is still the official language. And it is
still a compulsory subject in o’level and all other sorts of exams
(Anozie, 2017). It is on this note that this study intends to find out
what motivated code switching and code mixing in some of the characters
in Jenifa’s Diary Episodes, and it also intends to find out why.
1.2 Statement of the problem
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few studies have been carried out on bilingual speakers of English.
Some of the studies focus on the way speakers of English code switch and
mix between different language codes in their daily dialogues or
conversations. All these studies drew their data from real life
contexts. None of them investigated the use of code switch and mix in
dramatized utterances. Investigating code switch and code mixing in
Jenifa’s Diary Episodes will assist us in identifying how these
phenomena are used among Nigerians. This is the gap this study intends
to fill.
1.3 Aims and objectives
1.5 Significance of the study
The
research will x-ray the possible social relevance of code switching and
code mixing in TV soap opera in a multilingual Nigeria. The results of
the study will assist in creating a better understanding of the code
switching and mixing phenomenon amongst Nigerian bilinguals. Finally, it
is hoped that this study will serves as a reference material for
further research in this area.
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