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Ismail Olaitan Afolabi; Herbert Igboanusi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Against the backdrop of the warnings by some previous studies about the danger of the Yorùbá language losing domains because of the increasing dominance of English, the present study examines the broadcast languages of selected radio stations in Osun State, Nigeria, to ascertain the extent of the threat of English to Yorùbá in broadcast media…
Descriptors: African Languages, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Language Usage
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Arshad Ali Khan; Amina Khalid; Tahir Saleem – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study investigates the function and morphosyntax of English Embedded Language (EL) islands in Pashto-English bilingual data, using the Matrix Language Frame model to explore the role of the two languages in codeswitching and the pragmatic force behind the selection of EL islands. A dataset of 14 hours was collected from AVT Khyber, a YouTube…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages