Multilingualism and language endangerment flame via Covid-19-crisis communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa (0000-0001-9394-8973, Southwest University), Xu Wen (0000-0003-3781-1125, Southwest University, corresponding author), Abdulkadir Adamu (0000-0003-3462-8317, Gombe State University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Multilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-0718 • E-ISSN: 1747-7530 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14790718.2023.2233533 |
| OpenAlex | W4383894817 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
Drawing from health-crisis communication literature and anchoring the study on what we have coined as Dressler-Schmidt’s endangered language model, we aim to explore the extent to which COVID-19 pandemic has become a language endangerment window for users of English as a second language (ESL) in Nigeria. To achieve this, data was collected from respondents via online questionnaires and follow-up interviews. The analysis of the data was done using frequency count and percentage while that of the interview responses was done thematically. Overall, the analysis reveals that Nigerian languages are facing a serious linguistic dislocation amid the COVID-19-crisis communication. The paper concludes that the wheel of language endangerment may keep rolling in the multilingual Nigerian society and can get accelerated by any health-crisis communication. We, therefore, propose a COVID-19-crisis communication model to slow down the language endangerment flame in the country
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Crisis communication · Language contact · Linguistics · Local language · Multilingualism · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |