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Title: MONSIGNOR PROFESSOR SIMON O ANYANWU'S CALL FOR A DAILY
CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IGBO
LANGUAGE PROMOTION
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Authors: Bartholomew Nnaemedo, Nigeria |
Abstract: Msgr Prof Simon Anyanwu, in his work, Igbo Catholicism on the Move, called for a daily Catholic
newspaper in Southeast Nigeria. This paper investigates the implications of that call for Igbo
language promotion. Specifically, it aims to portray how implementing that clarion call would
promote Igbo language documentation, preservation, maintenance, development, propagation,
revitalisation, renaissance, and hybridisation. The primary data sources are the work mentioned
above and interviews, while the library and the internet are the secondary sources. The theoretical
framework is Joshua Fishman's theory of revising language shift. The data analysis and
interpretation methods are descriptive, analytical, and hermeneutical. However, the finding
indicates his advocacy for a daily Catholic newspaper is implicitly Igbo language-promoting.
Thus, this paper recommends that the proposed newspaper promote the Igbo language
unreservedly and simultaneously translate to running Igbo and English versions.
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