Title:
THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE MINISTRY OF HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH POSTERS

Authors:
Jane Nkechi Ifechelobi (PhD)

Volume:1 Issue: 6

Abstract:
Language is an invaluable gift to humankind by God. The primary purpose of every language, verbal or non-verbal, is communication. Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based Pidgin Language whose superstrate language is English while the indigenous languages serve as its substrate languages. Because no language is inferior to the other, in the midst of all the grudges many scholars bear against Nigerian Pidgin, this paper analyses the communicative function of Nigerian Pidgin in the light of its ubiquitous use in disseminating information to the general public. Data for this study comprised three advertorials by the Ministry of Health. Data were purposively chosen from advertorials that were pasted at Regina Caeli Specialist Hospital, Awka. This research discovers that Nigerian Pidgin is a language of wider communication that plays a huge communication role because it is spoken and understood by different people from different social classes.

Citation:

[Ifechelobi, Jane Nkechi. "THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE MINISTRY OF HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH POSTERS." IJAH July 1.6 (2017): 489-99.]