PETER, REDZIE(Benue Journal of Media Arts and Literary Studies, 2021-06)
With the assumption that there are structural ambiguities in Dul Johnson's novel 'Across the Gulf', this paper set out to find and disambiguate any sentence that conveys multiple meanings due to its structure. Sixteen ...
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In communication, a listener infers or deduces a speakers’ intended meaning from utterances beyond the sematic context of the sentence uttered. This type of meaning cannot be captured only from the simple and ...
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Language is the birthright of every human being regardless of gender. Sociolinguistic studies of gender show that variations in the use of language reflect social inequality and male dominance in so many societies. ...
KAPTANI, YUSUF(MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION, 2022)
The focus of this paper is on e-learning strategies and its benefit to re-engineering
education for sustainable development. The objectives of education which include:
functional change, social need, self-fulfillment, ...
Politics can be defined not only as that profession devoted to govern¬ing affairs or opinions about politics but also as the understanding of the prevailing social order that regulates or shapes the writer's world, and his ...
JOHNSON, Dul(Bineham Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (BJHSMS),, 2019-12)
Literature is not taken as seriously as it ought to be. Most people tend to think that all literature is mere fantasy "stories" to be read or listened to, to while away time, and therefore it is nothing other than entertainment ...
PETER, REDZIE(JOS JOURNAL OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 2021-06)
This paper investigates the application of English morphophonological rules by the students of English in Bingham university in Nigeria. using an experimental research design, copies of a questionnaire were administered ...
PETER, REDZIE(Human Nature Research Publisher, 2023-12-30)
Aim of the Study: This is a fresh perspective on the thematic concern in
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s Americanah and the theme of unfaithfulness in
Ngugi Wa Thiong‟o‟s A Grain of Wheat.
Methodology: The study seeks to ...
Adebayo, Mary(Northern University Bangladesh & Institute for Leadership and Development Communication, Nigeria, 2022-06-21)
Identity discourses are becoming more focal and prevalent in postcolonial women’s writings. However, these discourses tend to focus more on the female predicament and images as victims of male dominance. This paper seeks ...
Mary Adebayo(Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger state, Nigeria, 2022-06-20)
Oral literature has remained a source and material for
African literature. The intentions of most African writers are
to uphold and ensure that the traditions do not go extinct. This
paper maintains that The Marriage ...
Mary Adebayo; JOHNSON, Dul(Brystevand Publishers, 2018-05-04)
Research remains an integral and critical concern in the academia, and it is the mainstay of all disciplines. But different disciplines have different ways of research, the reason why there are different styles, methods, ...
Environmentalism in the oil-rich Niger Delta has continued to generate literary
responses from scholars and well-meaning Nigerians who feel that with the region’s
enormous contribution to the growth and development of ...
Prisca Godspower Ochulor, Mary Adebayo(IJLL, 2017-06-12)
Oral literature has remained a source and material for African literature. It forms part
of the repertoire that maintains a society aimed at curbing social ills. Hence, African
writers use this form of literature in ...
ALUYA, Isaiah; TERVER, Jime(Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS), 2019-06)
This study examined 86 headlines in the columns of Newswatch by Niyi Osundare which had been relatively underexplored. The aim was to determine their functional significance based on their peculiar stylistics choices. The ...
ALUYA, Isaiah(International Journal of Linguistics and Communication (IJOLAC), 2020)
That discourse and dominance are closely linked and in various ways inseparable is undeniable. This paper examines the relations between both constructs paying particular attention to how the former contributes to the ...
ALUYA, Isaiah; OCHULOR, Prisca Godspower(Jos Journal of the English Language, 2023-06)
This study investigates how grammatical modifiers influence the propositional content of Niyi Osundare and Ray Ekpu's media essays. In order to accomplish this goal, the study applies the experiential and logical functions ...
ALUYA, Isaiah(Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2020-06)
‘Figurative language,’ a potent resource indispensable to all modes of discourse, is one of the stylistic devices with which creative writers articulate more than they literary mean. This study seeks to account for the ...
ALUYA, Isaiah(Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2019-06)
‘Face’ an attribute of politeness theory is one of the most considerable frameworks for the analysis of social interaction. The proclivity of this study unveils how President Muhammadu Buhari (henceforth PMB) deploys ...
ALUYA, Isaiah(Akwa Journal of Linguistics and Languages, 2016)
This paper focuses on graphic signs as signallers of meaning in Osundare’s ‘Dialogue with my country’. It has been observed that Osundare’s literary work mirrors Nigeria’s social and economic challenges of grave concern, ...
ALUYA, Isaiah(Canadian Journal of Language and Literature Studies, 2024-05)
This article investigates the speech by President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to determine the discursive strategies used to construct ingroup and outgroup identity, and the functions that these strategies ...