Hinmassia, Rigobert (2024) Language Choice and attitudes in Public Institutions: The case of the University of Maroua. European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, 12 (6). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2055-0138(Print), 2055-0146(Online)
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Abstract
This study sets out to investigate on language choice and attitudes in public institutions. The study intends to scrutinize the factors that account for the language choice made by some language users at the University of Maroua, i.e., to choose any other languages different from the two official languages. To do this, a random sampling of 250 participants was used. The instrument used is a questionnaire with a purely sociolinguistic undertone. Spolsky’s (2009) Language Management and Fishman’s (1972) Domain Analysis backed up the study as frames. At the end of the analyses, it has been shown that, students, the teaching staff (involving some university Administrators) and the support staff have some positive and negative attitudes following the language choices made in relation with where the communication takes place as well as the language situations such as enabling mutual intelligibility, social inclusion/exclusion, intimacy and showing identity, solidarity and work coordination.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Depositing User: | Professor Mark T. Owen |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2024 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2024 13:48 |
| URI: | https://tudr.org/id/eprint/3299 |
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