The contribution of media to growth and distortion of Kiswahili in Tanzania
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Date
2013
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The University of Dodoma
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find the contribution of media to both the growth and
distortion of Kiswahili in Tanzania.
The study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality and it employed three methods of data
collection. These are interview, observation and corpus linguistics. In structured interview
questions were administered to respondents. The researcher made some observation
through watching EATV and listening to Clouds FM radio to see how language is used in
the named media. Also forty copies of different informal newspapers (Ijumaa, Ijumaa
Wikienda, Risasi, Uwazi, Kiu, Sani, Amani, and Jumatatu) were collected in the corpus
and a careful examination of language use was done.
The findings show that there is incorrect use Kiswahili in the media especially the kind of
lexicon and sentence structure used. The study further revealed that media today has three
major roles, which are: the major agent of language distortion, an agent of language
change and the agent of language growth. It does so through the kind of language it uses
especially the lexicon and the sentence structure. It was also revealed that the non formal
language used by the media has negative impacts to the Kiswahili speech community
especially the young generation. Lastly, the findings show that most old people have
negative attitude towards the use of the non formal language in the media while the young
generation seem to be some how positive.
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Dissertation (MA Linguistics)
Keywords
Language growth, Language distortion, Kiswahili, Language change, Tanzania, Dodoma municipality, Media, Contribution
Citation
Mwisongo, E.G. (2013). The contribution of media to growth and distortion of Kiswahili in Tanzania. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma.