Lexico-Grammatical Study of Nigerian Pidgin Used among Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) Undergraduate Students

Resumen

This study investigates the lexico-grammatical study of Nigerian Pidgin used by the undergraduates of Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU), Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, in Nigeria, with the prospect of depicting some agreeable inference regarding the use of Pidgin among Nigerian university students. Data for this study were obtained primarily from casual speech of the students, through participant observation and recording of their interactions. Some flexible interviews were equally conducted to ascertain the variety spoken in their campus setting. Discussions on topical issues trending in Nigeria polity were initiated. These include the skyrocketing in the price of fuel, resulting from subsidy removal and consequently, hike in prices of virtually everything in the country, and how the government intends to relief people of the pains and anguish, through palliative measures were debated. The paper adopts Bales (1950) Social Interaction Theory as its theoretical framework. The study sought to investigate linguistic peculiarities of Nigerian Pidgin, especially the variety spoken in JABU. A qualitative method is employed for the analyses of the data. A descriptive analysis of the work is given. The findings reveal that JABU students communicate among themselves in pidgin language in an informal setting and that the lexicogrammatical structure of the