Ayobami Sodiq Analyzing Oby Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri Speeches from a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The major thrust of this dissertation is to analyze the speeches of two of Nigeria’s frontline women, Oby Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The study is motivated by the fact … Read more
Comparative Study of Morphological Processes in English and Hausa Languages ABSTRACT This work aims at investigating the relationships that exist between the English and the Hausa languages at the level of their morphological processes; and the implication this relationship will have on the teaching and learning situation. The study adopted a contrastive analysis theory cum contrastive analysis … Read more
Contemporary African Poetry “To have any sense of evolving African poetics, one must be aware of the socio-political significance of literary expression and the ideological character of literary theory.” Thomas Knipp (1985: 117) The inaugural moment of the scholarly engagement with modern African poetry is best seen as coinciding with efforts at making modern African … Read more
A Pragmatic Study of Selected Utterances in Asare Konadu’s a Woman in Her Prime ABSTRACT This research is a pragmatic study of selected utterances in Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime. In focus, the study discusses the application of the conversational maxims in the text to interpret the implicatures arising from the breaches in … Read more
Feminist Visions in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-yellow and Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Idia: The Warrior Queen of Benin ABSTRACT This research work examines the feminist visions of Nigerian female writers by discussing the role of women in the socio-economic development of Nigeria using the works of Kaine Agary and Irene Salami-Ogunloye respectively. The aim of the research is … Read more
Foregrounding in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign God’s Inc. Abstract The study is a graphological inquiry on foregrounded elements in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign god’s Inc. The various paralinguistic graphological devices in the text complement the verbal signifiers and foreground critical and strategic aspects of meaning in relation to context of situation and textual function. Conventional wisdom that … Read more
Functionality of Archetypes in Films It is plausible to say that filmmaking is one of the most veritable tools for shaping ideas and thought patterns of people, dating back to the last century. The astronomical rise of the power of films is overwhelming, without an end in sight as the world continue to advance technologically. A typical … Read more
Humor and Pragmatics of Jenifa’s Diary 1.0 Introduction The interdisciplinary relationship between linguistics and other fields of studies have been witnessed in Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Neuro- Linguistics – the list is indeed endless. The closest or nearest way linguistics connects to literature is in the field of stylistics – which … Read more
Language Borrowing: English Loanwords in Hausa Language Abstract Language borrowing is increasingly becoming an interesting topic of study in recent years. Intercultural contact, communication and globalization have led to inter language borrowings among almost all languages. This paper is restricted on Lexical borrowing of English by Hausa Language. 1.1 INTRODUCTION According to Encyclopaedia Britannica (2010), … Read more
Modernism and the 21st Century Literary Analysis Abstract This article gives a brief background to modernist art and literary modernism, considers literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with society and culture in both national and transnational settings, and suggests that modernism should be thought of as an overdetermined, overlapping, … Read more