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Publication details [#66433]

Mensah, Eyo. 2019. The New Language Policy of the Nigerian Army: National Integration or Linguistic Imperialism? Journal of Asian and African Studies 54 (3) : 331–345.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
armed forces | language acquisition | language dominance | language of wider communication | language policy | linguistic human rights | minority language | multilingualism | pidgin
Language as a subject
Languages, Nigerian | Nigerian Pidgin
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This article asserts that the new language policy of the Nigerian Army recognizes and fosters the dominant languages as resources for military training, intelligence gathering and peace building, while the dominated languages are marginalized, alienated and relegated, thus the policy infringes on the fundamental linguistic rights of speakers of minoritized languages in the army.