A MILITARY DISCOURSE AND STYLISTIC VARIATION: LANGUAGE USE IN ODOGBO ARMY BARRACKS IN OJOO-IBADAN NIGERIA

This study examines language use among soldiers in the Odogbo army barracks Ojoo-Ibadan during training and parade activities. A good number of scholars have investigated armed forces, many them adopted different approaches arrived at conclusions. However, there is a paucity scholarship on shared knowledge that deploy their training, parades, other special The adopts qualitative method since data involved are descriptive. used this was harvested through participant observations activities by soldiers, as were audio recordings interactions parade. Army Barracks Ojoo, Ibadan, purposefully selected it first Ibadan saddled with responsibility coordinating military southwestern Nigeria. collected analysed from sociolinguistic perspective identification interpretation context vis-à-vis interlocutor. paper concluded soldiers’ involves an authoritative style obeyed troop result knowledge.