THE INEVITABILITY OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION AS A PANACEA FOR ECONOMIC STABILITY DURING PANDEMIC IN NIGERIA
2nd Biennial Conference
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Abstract
The paper focuses on the inevitable roles of language and communication towards enhancing economic stability during pandemic, particularly in a multilingual, heterogeneous nation like ours. It begins by examining the concepts of language and communication as veritable tools for promoting economic stability and growth during pandemic. The paper advocates a restraint in the use of emotional, disturbing and panic induced words that could promote depression, personality changes and cognitive problems. We should rather employ the use of reassuring, hopeful, emphatic, persuasive and subtle languages in order to stem the tide of
the pandemic. It further tries to education on the importance of appropriate communication tactics and strategies among the health providers, media organization, family doctors and the patients. The data generation for this study is in two folds, the first one, being historic, is done through the collection of secondary data such as previous researches, journal magazines, newspapers, textbooks, publications and the second, by descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentages used to elicit information from sampled characteristics. It advocated the use of appropriate language (reassuring, mild, reformative) in curbing the rise of coronavirus as well as formulating appropriate policies capable of tackling the increase to enhance economic stability of Nigeria.
Keywords
Inevitability, language, communication, economic, stability, pandemic
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