DRESSING AS A LINGUAL SIGN AND SYMBOL: IMPLICATION FOR NIGERIAN YOUTHS

Objective of this paper is to highlight dressing as a linguistic sign and symbol. The focus is on the youth and dressing. The way people dress tell others about their inward and outward characters. In the course of highlighting dressing as a linguistic sign and symbol in this paper, language and culture were defined showing their relationship with dressing. Brief effort was made to show that fashion changes and the different stages of developing in the society have their own type of dressing. Youths, personally and dressing were also looked at to show their relationship. The implications of dressing for youths were also discussed to let them know the effect of their dressing on them. Youths were advised to avoid indecent dressing at all times to avoid misplacement of identity and also misinterpretation of their person by the members of the society.