A Linguistic Analysis of Violent Political Language ABSTRACT The relationship between language and politics is a complementary one. Since language can be a tool for integrating and disintegrating the masses in politics, politicians have crashed in on this medium which they manipulate to canvass for votes from the populace. This language sometimes leads to violence […]
A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page … … … … … … … … … … iiDeclaration … … … … … … … … … … iiiCertification … … … … … … … … … … ivDedication … … […]
A Morphophonological Analysis of Selected English Language Loanwords in Hausa Language A Study Of Selected Entries From Hausa Dictionary ABSTRACT This dissertation examines English loan words in Hausa language and their nativisation through morphophonological processes. The contact situation between speakers of both languages through colonialism has brought about borrowing from the English language into the Hausa language. However, certain […]
A Peep into Modernist English Literature Modernism The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. Experimentation and individualism became virtues, […]
A Pragma Sociolinguistics Analysis of Slangs in Nigerian Hip-Hop Music Abstract The paper presents a Pragma Sociolinguistic analysis of anti-social themes found in some Nigerian Hip-hop music lyrics. Universally, utterances reliably reflect personality which is consequent upon what we listen to and what we read. The personality of an individual is shaped by their linguistic […]
A Pragmatic Analysis of Conversational Breach in Frank Ogodo’s Harvest of Corruption GENERAL INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Language is a means of communication between people in a community. According to Osisanwo (1), “it is the human vocal noise or the arbitrary graphic representation of this noise, used systematically and conventionally by members of a […]
A Study of Archetypes in Mel Gibson and Kunle Afolayan Films CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the Study Jung (1938, 1959) is the philosopher credited with founding what is today known as analytical philosophy, which is also referred to as Jungian philosophy. This philosophy espouses the concepts of extraversion and introversion, as well as […]
A Study of Conjuncts and Cohesion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The interpretation of a text is tied to the ability of the readers to not just make sense of the individual lexicon but also draw a connection between the groups of words, phrases […]
A Study of Signs in Selected Films The Concept of Semiotics The term semiotics has been in use since the seventeenth century. Accounts that it was spelled semeiotics, and was first used in English by Henry Stubbes (1670:75) to precisely denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. Semiotics has its […]
A Stylistic Approach to Chimamanda Adichie’s Work A Case Study of Americanah ABSTRACT This project aims at investigating features of style in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. It majorly focuses on identification of features of style in line with contemporary stylistics and the analysis of the same features through graphological, syntactic and semantic levels. The features under study include: […]