A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Language Variation Among The Academic And Non Academic Staff Of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

📄 Project Abstract

This study "ASociolinguistic Analysis of Language Variation among the Academic and Non Academic Staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria"is preoccupied with the intrinsic relationship between language variation, sociolinguistics, social context and culture of individual as well as diverse groups in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. It established language variation as an inseparable part of human society, human civilization and cultural integration. The study sourced its data from questionnaires and random sampling method, with face to face direct procedure applied in the data elicitation process. A brief pilot survey was undertaken to test the instruments. The study adopts the community of practice theory in order to overcome the limitations presented by earlier linguistic theories such as the speech community model and social network theory. The theory was also adopted in this study because it permits us to draw on the linguistic and social information necessary to understand variation ...