Terror and Tragic Optimism as Sustaining Constructs in Camus’s the Plague and Soyinka’s Season of Anomy

Terror and Tragic Optimism as Sustaining Constructs in Camus’s the Plague and Soyinka’s Season of Anomy   Abstract of Terror and Tragic Optimism as Sustaining Constructs in Camus’s the Plague and Soyinka’s Season of Anomy Camus’s The Plague has been read variously as an allegory of Nazi terror in France as well as a depiction of Camus’s…

Desire and the Unknown in Breitbach’s Report on Bruno, Achebe’s a Man of the People and Morrison’s Beloved

Desire and the Unknown in Breitbach’s Report on Bruno, Achebe’s a Man of the People and Morrison’s Beloved   Abstract of Desire and the Unknown in Breitbach’s Report on Bruno, Achebe’s a Man of the People and Morrison’s Beloved This study examines the extent the conflicts in Report on Bruno, A Man of the People, and Beloved can…

Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Political Campaign Speeches of Gubernatorial Candidates in South-western Nigeria 2007-2014

Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Political Campaign Speeches of Gubernatorial Candidates in South-western Nigeria 2007-2014   Abstract of Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Political Campaign Speeches of Gubernatorial Candidates in South-western Nigeria 2007-2014 Previous studies on campaign speeches in Nigeria have tended to be a description and analysis of style, innovative and persuasive strategies of…

A Morphological Analysis of Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

A Morphological Analysis of Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus   Chapter One of A Morphological Analysis of Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The use of language is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the human species. Language is important to stylistics because it is a tool which obeys certain structural laws and which…

A Comparative Study of J.p Clark’s the Raft and Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft

A Comparative Study of J.p Clark’s the Raft and Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft   Abstract of A Comparative Study of J.p Clark’s the Raft and Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft Substantial amount of African literary works are adaptation of older classical, Elizabethan modern and even African playwrights. These adaptations show that writers admit to being influence…

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Speeches

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Speeches   Abstract of A Critical Discourse Analysis of Speeches This study is a critical discourse analysis of Obi Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri’s speeches. It adopts some conceptual framework such as identity and role, ideology, power and institution, discourse of prejudice, language use etcetera; while socio-cognitive and discourse–historical approaches are…

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Threat

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Threat   Abstract of A Critical Discourse Analysis of Threat This study seeks to investigate the highly sensitive utterances of threat by Asari Dokubo in his struggle for the political and economic emancipation of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria; utterances that clearly portray his ideological leaning. Our analysis is…

A Lexico-semantic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

A Lexico-semantic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun   Abstract of A Lexico-semantic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun This study is a lexico-semantic analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun (ọkara nke a odo anyanwụ).The aim of this study is to identify the organization and breakdown of…

Nativization of English in African Literary Texts: a Lexico-semantic Study of Transliteration in Gabriel Okara’s the Voice Ebi Yeibo

Nativization of English in African Literary Texts a Lexico-semantic Study of Transliteration in Gabriel Okara’s the Voice Ebi Yeibo   Abstract of Nativization of English in African Literary Texts a Lexico-semantic Study of Transliteration in Gabriel Okara’s the Voice Ebi Yeibo As a result of the bilingual nature of African nations due to the historical…

A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun

A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun   Abstract of A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun Style is one‟s way of doing a thing. It can be of dressing, speaking, acting, teaching and writing which is influenced by…

A Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s “purple Hibiscus” and Chinua Achebe’s “anthills of the Savannah”

A Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s “purple Hibiscus” and Chinua Achebe’s “anthills of the Savannah”   Abstract of A Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Adichie’s “purple Hibiscus” and Chinua Achebe’s “anthills of the Savannah” Language and style never moves beyond a concentration on the supremacy of words. Literary piece (such as novels) somehow contain meaning of…

The Advent of Christianity and Its Impacts on Tiv Religious Civilization

The Advent of Christianity and Its Impacts on Tiv Religious Civilization   Abstract of The Advent of Christianity and Its Impacts on Tiv Religious Civilization The project work “The advent of Christianity to tiv land and its influence on church growth” traces the origin of Christianity in Tiv land, its impact and progress to the…

Literature in Northern Nigeria: Language and Popular Culture

Literature in Northern Nigeria Language and Popular Culture   Abstract of Literature in Northern Nigeria Language and Popular Culture This essay delves into the study of literature in northern Nigeria. The study discusses the scope of literature, the region of Northern Nigeria and aspects of its popular culture, and finally goes ahead to examine the…

An Examination of Leadership Styles and Their Effectiveness in the Organization Performance

An Examination of Leadership Styles and Their Effectiveness in the Organization Performance   Abstract of An Examination of Leadership Styles and Their Effectiveness in the Organization Performance This research project aims at investigating leadership Styles and work productivity in an organization: A study of Keffi Local Government Council. Some of the topics dealt with are…

A Stylistic Analysis of the Syntactic Features and Cohesive Devices in the Columnists’ Use of English Language in Nigerian Newspapers

A Stylistic Analysis of the Syntactic Features and Cohesive Devices in the Columnists’ Use of English Language in Nigerian Newspapers   Abstract of A Stylistic Analysis of the Syntactic Features and Cohesive Devices in the Columnists’ Use of English Language in Nigerian Newspapers The study was a stylistic analysis of the syntactic features and cohesive…

Code Switching in Northern Nigeria: a Study of Kanywood Film Industry

Code Switching in Northern Nigeria a Study of Kanywood Film Industry   Abstract of Code Switching in Northern Nigeria a Study of Kanywood Film Industry This study is an examination of the language use in the northern Nigeria film industry called Kannywood. This work focuses on Hausa-English code-switching in contemporary Kanywood films. Thenature of code-switching in…

Coinages in Nigeria English: a Sociolinguistic Perspective

Coinages in Nigeria English a Sociolinguistic Perspective   Abstract of Coinages in Nigeria English a Sociolinguistic Perspective Nigerian English coinages have been widely investigated in different literatures ranging from studies in Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Syntax to Metaphors and Cognitive linguistic studies. This present paper is a re-visitation of the Nigerian English lexicon, taking cue…

Dignity or Suppression: the Portrayal of Women in Thunderbolt Nollywood Home Video Film

Dignity or Suppression the Portrayal of Women in Thunderbolt Nollywood Home Video Film   Chapter One of Dignity or Suppression the Portrayal of Women in Thunderbolt Nollywood Home Video Film  INTRODUCTION Background to the study Film has been in existence since time immemorial, it serves many generations as a tool of understanding and passing across…

Discourse and Communication: a Comparative Study

Discourse and Communication a Comparative Study   Abstract of Discourse and Communication a Comparative Study Discourse and communication are two interrelated concepts, intricately interwoven and grossly assumed as overtly synonymous. This study therefore, attempts to demystify these concepts and also aim to unearth the intricate relationship that exists between them .In this regard, the study…

Discourse, Stylistics and Pragmatic: a Study of Convergence

Discourse, Stylistics and Pragmatic a Study of Convergence   Abstract of Discourse, Stylistics and Pragmatic a Study of Convergence Discourse, stylistics and pragmatics are sub-fields of linguistics that have attained independent statuses in the arts. With the seeming differences between these fields, there exist a lot of relationships that connect the three areas of study…

Feminism: an Examination of Zulu Sofola’s Sweet Trap and Ola Rotimi’s Our Has Gone Mad Again

Feminism an Examination of Zulu Sofola’s Sweet Trap and Ola Rotimi’s Our Has Gone Mad Again   Chapter One of Feminism an Examination of Zulu Sofola’s Sweet Trap and Ola Rotimi’s Our Has Gone Mad Again Introduction Feminism has continued  to dominate  the temporary literary discourse as african societies are becoming increasingly of the urgent…

Feminist Criticisms of Some Selected Feminist Works

Feminist Criticisms of Some Selected Feminist Works   Chapter One of Feminist Criticisms of Some Selected Feminist Works INTRODUCTION There are view shared by all feminists is that women are discriminated against on account of their sex. Feminists stress the relevant of gender segregation in society and it present these segregation as working to the…

Fiction, Emotion and Narration in Selected Novels of Chinua Achebe

Fiction, Emotion and Narration in Selected Novels of Chinua Achebe   Chapter One of Fiction, Emotion and Narration in Selected Novels of Chinua Achebe INTRODUCTION Fiction and Emotion Narration as a concept is the weaving of several strands of events into a story. This means narrative comes out of oral or written account of an…

Graphological Foregrounding in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Graphological Foregrounding in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus   Abstract of Graphological Foregrounding in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus There is a symbiotic relationship between language structure and language function, which is particularly exploited by literary artists to relate language forms deployed in their texts to their intended messages and visions. This is possible because of the…

Language and National Development: Challenges and Impediments in a Multilingual Society

Language and National Development Challenges and Impediments in a Multilingual Society   Chapter One of Language and National Development Challenges and Impediments in a Multilingual Society INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Human Beings are social animals and language is an instrument of the society which is acculturated into a given society. Through the instrumentality of…

The Effects of Language Diversity on National Development

The Effects of Language Diversity on National Development   Abstract of The Effects of Language Diversity on National Development This research work focuses on the Effect of Language Diversity on National Development. It adopts descriptive and comparative approaches in analyzing the nature of Language and the policy situation in Nigeria, considering in clear terms the…

The Linguistic Features of Nigerian English and Their Implications for 21st Century English Pedagogy

The Linguistic Features of Nigerian English and Their Implications for 21st Century English Pedagogy   Abstract of The Linguistic Features of Nigerian English and Their Implications for 21st Century English Pedagogy Like its users, one important feature of language is its dynamism. Thus, language adapts to situational constraints as its users vary across regional/geographical, social,…

A Phonological Analysis of the Sound System of Jaba Language

A Phonological Analysis of the Sound System of Jaba Language Chapter one of A Phonological Analysis of the Sound System of Jaba Language INTRODUCTION Background to the Study This study focuses on describing the sound system of Jaba. The research comes under the purview of phonology which is a branch of language study. Language is…

Oil in Nigerian Prose Fiction: a Study of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow

Oil in Nigerian Prose Fiction a Study of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow   Chapter One of Oil in Nigerian Prose Fiction a Study of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to…