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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

This article investigates the connection between language and its environment, with a focus on the function language plays in relation to ecological degradation and the social ills that accompany it. Using insights from ...

That language is used to convey a broad sense of meanings and that the meanings that are conveyed with language are moulded by our immediate social, political and historical conditions are safe assumptions about the efficacy ...

This study, from a cognitive pragmatics perspective, examines how Thomas Ajayi’s Moremi demystifies male domination in a patriarchal formation. Findings unveil that the writer deploys three major contextual frame models ...

The widespread of COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has been a subject of discourse in the media, with different media outlets striving to report issues of the pandemic to the general public since its outbreak. The question ...

This article investigates grammatical deviation in selected socio-political essays of Osundare in order to highlight some socio-political challenges which these deviations are deployed to communicate. Drawing on content ...

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 ...