ABSTRACT
Due to the fact that English language is the official language of Nigeria, and Nigerian is a multilingual country, English language continues to grow popular every day. The Nigerian R&B with its high level of spread lately has contributed a great deal in influencing English usage. This research work has aimed to enlighten people on how Nigerian R&B music penetrates and affect their usage of English language. This research work has examined the various ways in which the Nigerian R&B music affects the use of English language using four randomly selected Nigerian R&B tracks. The result of the analysis shows that Nigerian R&B music introduces and changes a lot in English vocabulary.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgements iv
Abstract v
Table of contents vi
CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA 2
1.2 RHYTHM AND BLUES MUSIC 3
1.3 MUSIC IN NIGERIA 3
1.4 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 4
1.5 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY 4
1.6 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH 5
1.7 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 5
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0 INTRODUCTION 6
2.1 LEXICO-GRAMMAR 6
2.1.1 LEXIS 6
2.2 GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE 7
2.3 SOCIOLINGUITICS 8
2.4 INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN ENGLISH 10
2.5 WORD FORMATION 11
2.5.1 IDIOM 12
2.5.2 NEOLOGISM 13
2.5.3 AGGLUTINATING 14
2.5.4 CONTRATION 14
2.6 SLANG 15
CHAPTER THREE: DATA ANALYSIS
3.0 INTRODUCTION 16
3.1 ANALYSIS OF DATA 16
3.1.1 SLANGS 16
3.1.2 WORD FORMATION 20
3.1.2.1 IDIOMATICITY 20
3.1.2.2 NEOLOGISM 23
3.1.2.3 AGGLUTINATING 25
3.1.2.4 CONTRATION 26
3.1.3 INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN ENGLISH 28
CHAPTER FOUR: SUMMARY AND FINDINGS
4.0 INTRODUCTION 33
4.1 SUMMARY 33
4.2 FINDINGS 34
4.3 CONCLUSION 35
BIBIOLOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
INTRODUCTION
English language is the official language in Nigeria as a tool that facilitates cultural and linguistic unity in the country. Part of the area in which English language is used peculiarly in the country is music. R&B music originated from traditional Rhythm and Blues music. Today, the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of Africa American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s. Nigerian R&B culture started spreading in the 1990s with the likes of Plantashun Boiz, The Remedies etc. When the country witnessed proliferation of computer and cheap music editing software in the 21th century, Nigeria R&B artistes started achieving higher quality recordings that rapidly won over the Nigerian audience.
English language has been adopted as the language of the Nigerian R&B music. In spite of the fact that most Nigerian R&B singers use English language, they still try to identify with their indigenous languages. Nigerian R&B singers use their music as a medium of informing their listeners of the current event and liberation strategies, using alternate language understood only by those within the cultural network. Through the years, many of the words and phrases become integrated and used by listeners who had figured out the context and definitions of these words.