GENDER AS A SOCIAL FACTOR OF LANGUAGE VARIATION IN IGBO SOCIETY
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Gender variation in language use has become a very common issue in everyday discourses of our life. When we use language frequently, we generally make differences from each other. The differences mainly occur among male and female. Now days, a variety of language use are occurring mostly among the young people of the Igbo society. This paper examines the common difference and reasons behind variation of language use among the native speakers of the Igbo language. Questionnaires were administered to thirty respondents consisting of a targeted combination of fifteen males and fifteen females respectively. It was found that the speakers have multiple reasons behind the variation of language use between male and female. So, this prompted for the
drafting out of a questionnaire consisting of multiple-choice item, the
questionnaires included fifteen multiple choice questions consisting of two options. In each of the questions students had to choose one specific answerGender variation in language use has become a very common issue in everyday discourses of our life. When we use language frequently, we generally make differences from each other. The differences mainly occur among male and female. Now days, a variety of language use are occurring mostly among the young people of the Igbo society. This paper examines the common difference and reasons behind variation of language use among the native speakers of the Igbo language. Questionnaires were administered to thirty respondents consisting of a targeted combination of fifteen males and fifteen females respectively. It was found that the speakers have multiple reasons behind the variation of language use between male and female. So, this prompted for the
drafting out of a questionnaire consisting of multiple-choice item, the
questionnaires included fifteen multiple choice questions consisting of two options. In each of the questions students had to choose one specific answer
drafting out of a questionnaire consisting of multiple-choice item, the
questionnaires included fifteen multiple choice questions consisting of two options. In each of the questions students had to choose one specific answerGender variation in language use has become a very common issue in everyday discourses of our life. When we use language frequently, we generally make differences from each other. The differences mainly occur among male and female. Now days, a variety of language use are occurring mostly among the young people of the Igbo society. This paper examines the common difference and reasons behind variation of language use among the native speakers of the Igbo language. Questionnaires were administered to thirty respondents consisting of a targeted combination of fifteen males and fifteen females respectively. It was found that the speakers have multiple reasons behind the variation of language use between male and female. So, this prompted for the
drafting out of a questionnaire consisting of multiple-choice item, the
questionnaires included fifteen multiple choice questions consisting of two options. In each of the questions students had to choose one specific answer
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