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Characteristics of the Language Policy in India and Nigeria |
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Kurchenkova E.A. Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor,, kurlena@mail.ru |
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World Philology |
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811.111’28 |
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This article describes the features of the language policy in India and Nigeria in relation
to the English language. The author refers language policy to types of conscious activity of
the society, aimed at regulating the use of language; it deals with such issues as the formation,
regulation and control of the rules of the language as well as the identification and
legal consolidation of different variants of languages in the state. The article distinguishes
between types of language policy as negative and positive, formal and informal, internal
and external, prospective and retrospective. Uneasy ethnic and linguistic situation is a
great problem for communication between the various peoples within the country because
of the great diversity and multiplicity of languages and dialects spoken by inhabitants of
both countries. The article states that India and Nigeria in the post-colonial period faced the
implementation of positive formal and informal language policy. External language policy in
India and Nigeria is characterized by strengthening of the English language, its nomination
for the role of a mediator for communication of the various peoples of these countries to
stimulate the transition to the new standards of literary and spoken variants. Internal language
policy dealing with native varieties of English spoken in Nigeria, has also a positive
practice, as it promotes creolization of Pidgin English. Domestic policy of Indians in relation
to the English language is also positive, which leads to the spread of Indian English in the
fields of business, entertainment, tourism, politics and international journalism, pop music,
mass media, science and medicine.
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| Key words |
postcolonial English, language policy, language situation, varieties and
variants of the English language, official language. |
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