Modernism and the 21st Century Literary Analysis Abstract This article gives a brief background to modernist art and literary modernism, considers literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with society and culture in both national and transnational settings, and suggests that modernism should be thought of as an overdetermined, overlapping, … Read more

Nigerian Women Writers and their Contributions to Nation Building CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Although women play very significant roles in various spheres of Nigeria’s development, their contributions to the growth of the country are, often, not acknowledged or encouraged. For instance, the role of women in the development of the Niger delta region … Read more

Reference and Conjunction as Cohesive Devices in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck ABSTRACT This study analyses Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing around your Neck with a view to ascertaining how effectively she has used References and Conjunctives. The study adopts Halliday and Hassan’s (1976) Model. The objective is to analyse the use of … Read more

Reflecting the Times: A Journey of Self-discovery in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page iCertification iiDedication iiiAcknowledgement iv-vTable of Content vi-viiAbstract viiiCHAPTER ONE1.0 Introduction1.1 Background 1-41.2 Statement of Problem 41.3 Aim and Objectives 4-51.4 Scope and Limitation of the Study 51.5 Justification of the Study 5-61.6 Methodology 61.7 Brief Introduction … Read more

Semiotics Analysis of Nigerian and American Films CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the Study Semiotics is a form of communication that uses signs, codes, symbols, and significations to articulate ideas and information. It is a method of communication that investigates the creation of meanings. Adedina and Taiwo (2015:6) define it as the study of … Read more

Music as Language of Communication: The Sound of Music Introduction This paper concentrates on the efficaciousness of music to the human psyche and its communicative inherence; it deliberates on its sonorous alluring effects in softening a heart that seems inflexible with its powerful suasions, as well as on its rhythmic harsh resonance in rebuffing an … Read more

Story and Storytelling: Chinua Achebe’s Narrative Strategy Chinua Achebe has been very conscious about the significance of story and storytelling in African oral societies. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Achebe says: “It’s the storyteller, in fact, who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have … Read more

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 1. THE MAIN ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONAL STYLES 5 2. THE PUBLICISTIC STYLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 7 3. THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE NEWSPAPER STYLE 8 3.1 The Structure of News Stories 9 4. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HEADLINES IN THE ENGLISH NEWSPAPER 13 4.1 The Special Language Features of Newspaper Headlines 14 5. … Read more

Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun ABSTRACT This study is a stylistic analysis of Half Of A Yellow Sun, which comprises four parts with a total number of 37 chapters and 433 pages. The aim of this study is to identify the predominant stylistic devices used by the author in the … Read more

The Contextual Implications of Discourse Markers in a Non-native Linguistic Environment Like Nigeria CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The term discourse has become a reference point of study in a variety of disciplines in recent years, so much so that the concept has become vague, either meaning almost nothing or being used … Read more