A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of the Language of Sports Reporting in a Nigerian Sports Magazine
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 9
Abstract
The paper examines the role of language in the successful communication of sports with particular focus on aspects of Lexico-semantic variations of Nigerian English, to identify the typologies, their essence and significance for sports communication. Using the Sports Magazine, Complete Football International as source of data, the findings reveal that apart from the conventional categories, the lexico-semantic variations employed on the sports pages include some distinct forms which may be traced to constraints of professional ethics, and the creative efforts of sport writers. Although most the typologies are derived from the English language lexical stock, they have been made to undergo various modifications to give them new forms and functions in the context of sports reporting. Examples of these include inflectional conversion, analogical creation of new idioms, coinages, conversion, loan-shift, acronyms, extension, ellipsis, elliptical conversion, inflections, and figurative expressions. The inquiry into what accounts for their occurrence reveals that they derive from the effort of Nigerians to indigenize the English language. Moreover, there is the functional dimension to their occurrence as they serve as creativity vent for sports writers to engender the varieties that enrich and enliven the sports pages, providing the interesting and dynamic language of the report that the sports reader finds so captivating.
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Alege, Tosin C
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