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The Use of Indigenous Language in Radio Broadcasting: A Platform for Language Engineering

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This paper discusses the practical ways by which language users make use of coinage in order to find expressions for the day-to-day usages of common words, but which albeit are found in other languages like English. The media practitioners are exposed to using words to capture their intensions. Since these practitioners are faced with audience that are of local language, they are constrained to look for words that will express what goes on in the world around them. In an age of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), many of the words used are computer compliant, therefore, it behoves the people interacting with the populace through language to look for those codes that will carry their messages to their audience in the way that will go in conformity to the understanding of their audience. This paper, therefore, looks at those coinages and proposes that they should be collated and integrated into Yorùbaá vocabulary system for the use of people in a general context.
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Akanbi, T. and Aladesanmi, O. (2014) The Use of Indigenous Language in Radio Broadcasting: A Platform for Language Engineering. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 4, 563-572. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2014.44049. 
 

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