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A STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL EMBEDDING IN THE GUARDIAN AND DAILY TRUST EDITORIALS

ABSTRACTThis work is a study of ideology and its workings in two Nigerian Newspapers: The Guardian and Daily Trust using Modality as the analytical element. Modality as a property oflanguage use is generally exploited by language users and its role in newspaper editorials is of importance in that...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6669 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF TONI MORRISON‟S A MERCY AND GLORIA NAYLOR‟S THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE AND MAMA DAY

ABSTRACTThe study of Psychoanalysis over the years has helped to reveal the relation between the mind, language and personality trait which are not easily observable or revealed in our regular acts and use of language. By placing much emphasis on literary elements such as metaphor, metonym or sym...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6380 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INFORMATIVENESS AND CONCISENESS IN THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT OF THE NIGERIAN PRINT MEDIA

ABSTRACTLanguage is the chief medium of communication used for all forms of social interaction, the most important of which is passing and receiving information and messages. Advertisement also a form of communication, relies on language to pass its message in order to attract consumers to what i...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11600 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF CHILD LANGUAGE

ABSTRACTThis thesis titled "A Pragmatic Interpretation of Child Language: A Case Study ofTelegraphic Speech has been carried out to determine the role of context in understanding language use by children or children‟s speech. Pragmatics is the study of speaker context meaning…. It is a comp...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11563 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CONTEXT AND ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON MEANING AND INTERPRETATION OF IGALA PROVERBS

ABSTRACTProverbs play very important functional, communicative and pragmatic roles in Igala language. Their social and contextual importance has been attested to by ethnographers, philosophers, literary and other language experts, as instruments of communication, cultural education and channel of...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8078 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH IN THE SUBTITLES OF SELECTED NIGERIAN HOME VIDEOS

ABSTRACTSeveral theories have been developed by linguists all over the world in explaining pragmatics as a sub-field of linguistics. What is central in the contributions of the scholars is identification of „invisible‟ meanings from what is said or written by the intended listeners as inten...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6570 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PORTRAIT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN SOME SELECTED WORKS OF ALICE WALKER AND TONI MORRISON

ABSTRACTThis work focuses on African-American women in the Black family structure as portrayed by Toni Morrison in her novels; Paradise, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and Alice Walker in The Color Purple, Meridian, and In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. Consid...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 7245 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LOAN WORDS AMONG YORUBA SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ABSTRACTThe thesis entitled "A Morphological Analysis of Loan Words among Yoruba Speakers of English in Kaduna Metropolis" is a documentation and analysis of some English, Hausa and Arabic loan words in Yoruba language. The study is propelled by the following observations: that a large part of th...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9934 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A LINGUISTIC-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE OF HUMUOR IN OPA WILLIAMS’ “NITE OF A THOUSAND LAUGHS”

ABSTRACTOne of the most intriguing things about language is its redeployment to accomplish a multiplicity of functions by different people in different places at different times. One of such functions of language is humour- making. People often make use of humour in social, political and cultural...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 10251 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A LINGUISTIC STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

ABSTRACTStyle is one‟s way of doing a thing. It can be of dressing, speaking, acting, teaching and writing which is influenced by a lot of factors or ideologies such as history, religion and culture. However, the style of a writer albeit creative may pose a challenge to readers. This study ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8760 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN-NESS’ OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN IN SELECTED LITERARY WORKS

ABSTRACTThis thesis titled "A Linguistic study of the „Nigerian-ness‟ of Nigerian Pidgin in Selected Literary Works" was embarked upon because of the resistance many Nigerians have to the use of Nigerian Pidgin (NP); they see it as foreign and a corruption of the English Language. Besides, ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12892 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND THE ROAD

ABSTRACTAfrican literary elites have responded to the call by Africans to free the continent from all forms of colonial and slave mentality. While others have responded overtly, Soyinka does so covertly. As a result, over time, critical commentaries on his works have been on the mythical presenta...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12804 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF “TURN-TAKING” IN THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA

ABSTRACTTurn-Taking in conversation varies from one language to another because Turn-Taking is usually bound by natural etiquettes attributable to the people's culture. Turn-Taking in Yorùbá conversation is no exception. It reflects to a large extent the culture of the Yorùbá People. Hitherto, po...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 7107 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF TIV AND ENGLISH PLURALISATION PROCESSES

ABSTRACTThis research work entitled: "A Contrastive Analysis of Tiv and English Pluralisation Processes" discusses the fact that Tiv Language is still yearning for development as much is needed to study on Tiv Language. This is to help develop and standardize the language through orthograghy, mor...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12136 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MOROA FOLKTALES

ABSTRACTThe research tittled, "AFunctional Analysis of Moroa Folktales"provides insights into the status and nature of African traditional oral art as a literary form for aesthetic and educational purposes. The study revolves around the collection, analysis and the functional analysis of folktale...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9705 words | 📚 5 chapters

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