An Examination of the State of the English Sentence in Conformity to Societal Standard ABSTRACT Information communication technology continues to play an ever increasing role in information dissemination. In this regard, this study seeks to examine the state of the English sentence as regards conformity to standard in a society where emphasis is concentrated on … Read more
An In-depth Study of Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This project is centered on An In-depth Study on Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa, with the aim to study the English and Hausa lexical loan words. The concept borrowing has been defined and explains by different scholars. It is a universal socio-linguistic … Read more
Analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone and the Level of its Influence on Femi Osofisan’s Tegonni, An African Antigone Tegonni, Femi Osofisan’s Adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone: A Work on the Interface Between Antigone and Tegonni Abstract This paper examines Sophocles’ Antigone to determine the level of its influence on Femi Osofisan’s Tegonni, an African Antigone. The study … Read more
Analyzing Oby Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri Speeches from a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The major thrust of this dissertation is to analyze the speeches of two of Nigeria’s frontline women, Oby Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The study is motivated by the fact … Read more
Comparative Study of Morphological Processes in English and Hausa Languages ABSTRACT This work aims at investigating the relationships that exist between the English and the Hausa languages at the level of their morphological processes; and the implication this relationship will have on the teaching and learning situation. The study adopted a contrastive analysis theory cum contrastive analysis … Read more
Contemporary African Poetry “To have any sense of evolving African poetics, one must be aware of the socio-political significance of literary expression and the ideological character of literary theory.” Thomas Knipp (1985: 117) The inaugural moment of the scholarly engagement with modern African poetry is best seen as coinciding with efforts at making modern African … Read more
A Pragmatic Study of Selected Utterances in Asare Konadu’s a Woman in Her Prime ABSTRACT This research is a pragmatic study of selected utterances in Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime. In focus, the study discusses the application of the conversational maxims in the text to interpret the implicatures arising from the breaches in … Read more
Feminist Visions in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-yellow and Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Idia: The Warrior Queen of Benin ABSTRACT This research work examines the feminist visions of Nigerian female writers by discussing the role of women in the socio-economic development of Nigeria using the works of Kaine Agary and Irene Salami-Ogunloye respectively. The aim of the research is … Read more
Foregrounding in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign God’s Inc. Abstract The study is a graphological inquiry on foregrounded elements in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign god’s Inc. The various paralinguistic graphological devices in the text complement the verbal signifiers and foreground critical and strategic aspects of meaning in relation to context of situation and textual function. Conventional wisdom that … Read more
Functionality of Archetypes in Films It is plausible to say that filmmaking is one of the most veritable tools for shaping ideas and thought patterns of people, dating back to the last century. The astronomical rise of the power of films is overwhelming, without an end in sight as the world continue to advance technologically. A typical … Read more