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 ...

Previous studies on political discourse in Nigeria have dwelt on the application of manual approaches to the analysis of political speeches with little or no attention on a corpus-based approach. This study aims to demonstrate ...

Communication is a birthright of all societies, regardless of geographical location. As the globe becomes a global village where a common language is utilised for communication via social media images, there is a need to ...