Music as Language of Communication: The Sound of Music Introduction This paper concentrates on the efficaciousness of music to the human psyche and its communicative inherence; it deliberates on its sonorous alluring effects in softening a heart that seems inflexible with its powerful suasions, as well as on its rhythmic harsh resonance in rebuffing an … Read more
Story and Storytelling: Chinua Achebe’s Narrative Strategy Chinua Achebe has been very conscious about the significance of story and storytelling in African oral societies. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Achebe says: “It’s the storyteller, in fact, who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have … Read more
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 1. THE MAIN ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONAL STYLES 5 2. THE PUBLICISTIC STYLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 7 3. THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE NEWSPAPER STYLE 8 3.1 The Structure of News Stories 9 4. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HEADLINES IN THE ENGLISH NEWSPAPER 13 4.1 The Special Language Features of Newspaper Headlines 14 5. … Read more
Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun ABSTRACT This study is a stylistic analysis of Half Of A Yellow Sun, which comprises four parts with a total number of 37 chapters and 433 pages. The aim of this study is to identify the predominant stylistic devices used by the author in the … Read more
The Contextual Implications of Discourse Markers in a Non-native Linguistic Environment Like Nigeria CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The term discourse has become a reference point of study in a variety of disciplines in recent years, so much so that the concept has become vague, either meaning almost nothing or being used … Read more
The Role of Women in the Socio-economic Development of the Niger Delta Using Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow and Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Idia, the Warrior Queen of Benin CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Although women play very significant roles in various spheres of Nigeria’s development, their contributions to the growth of the country are, often, … Read more
A Semantic Analysis of Crime Investigation: The Case of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abstract The paper examines a semantic analysis of crime investigation using EFCC investigative report. The methodology is a content analysis and a descriptive approach to investigate the semantic components of language use of the EFCC. A sample was taken … Read more
The Struggles of the Female Gender in the Light of the Socio-cultural Realities of Traditional African Society Abstract This paper examines the struggles of the female gender in the light of the socio-cultural realities of the traditional African society from a feminist perspective. Adopting a content analysis as its methodology, Joys of Motherhood mirrors the … Read more
The Techniques and Technicalities of Coordination and Subordination in English-Medium and Yoruba-Medium Newspapers CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Levels of linguistic analysis refer to the points at which a language may be described. There are four basic levels of linguistic analysis: phonetics/phonology, morphology/syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Phonetics/phonology refers to the level of … Read more
STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEMS Taking the existing criticism as a starting point, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison explores how Pecola, the black protagonist, becomes a representati”e of whole world’s marginal, neglected childhood and resultant devastation of individual talents.She suffers throughout her life negligence of parents, deprivation of love in the past, and madness in present … Read more