CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION OF TERMINOLOGIES USED FOR LANGUAGE STATUS
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2019-01-25
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Department of English language Nasarawa State University Keffi
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Language is a product of its society. It is unique in nature but shared in application. It is unique in the sense that it gets born in the society with a given speech community as its product, where a child in that speech community has the ability to learn it by birth. It is also shared in application because other people who are non-native to such a given speech community aspire to learn it, and they do so with a certain level of competence, or as argued by linguists, performance. It is the uniqueness and diverse applications of language that the linguistic sub-fields such as sociolinguistics set out to investigate. This paper thereby attempts a conceptual exploration of the given terms in the title
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