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MALE ABSENCE AND SINGLE PARENTHOOD IN BLACK WRITING: A STUDY OF RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY, TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED, AND LAURETTA NGCOBO’S CROSS OF GOLD

AbstractThis study employs Realism as an analytical tool to assess the various dimensions of male absence and single parenthood in Richard Wright‟s Black Boy (1945), ToniMorrison‟s Beloved (1987) and Lauretta Ngcobo‟s Cross of Gold (1981). This research is thus a comparative stu...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8642 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CLAUSAL COORDINATES AS USED IN THE AMENDED 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThe language of law has been viewed by many as difficult to understand primarily because of archaism in its morpho-syntactic structure. Also, the Latin and French maxims that have characterised legalese have prevented some researchers from delving into it. Another issue of concern to some...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8948 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ABSTRACTThe boom in the use of social media in our time has no doubt brought a lot alteration in different language conventions. The early users of social media battled with space and time. Since social media language is in the borderline of speech and writing they created unusual acronyms and so...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8556 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE DISCOURSE OF IMPOSED IDENTITY IN ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME AND RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

ABSTRACTIdentity studies in African-American literature, over time, have depicted the interaction between black and white Americans and the connectedness of black Americans to their root. This study has explored the theme of identity as influenced by the milieu to represent the place of African-A...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 7702 words | 📚 5 chapters

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STATUS STRUGGLE: EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES IN NIGERIA

AbstractThe presence and the use of the English language in Nigeria has been seen as a threat to the indigenous languages. The truth lies in the fact that Nigeria has adopted the language of her colonial master and has given it priority over the indigenous languages that were in existence before ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11448 words | 📚 5 chapters

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PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION1.1             Background to the StudyLanguage  is a  unique attribute  of  humans,  which  is  used as a  chief  me...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11893 words | 📚 5 chapters

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LANGUAGE AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY: A STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH

ABSTRACTLanguage is an indispensible characteristic of every human society. The language one speaks tells much about one's identity with regards to where the person comes from. In every society individuals and groups of persons would like to be differentiated from others, and in that effect, iden...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11594 words | 📚 5 chapters

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GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NEWS SCRIPTS OF THE BROADCASTING CORPORATION

ABSTRACTThis study was carried out in respect to the grammatical errors that currently exist in the Broadcasting Corporation of Abia State Radio, Umuahia. The sole aim of this study was to carefully investigate the above station's news scripts, examine their structure, and to find out the causes,...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 7786 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EFFECTS OF PIDGIN ENGLISH IN STANDARD ENGLISH USAGE AMONG STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS

ABSTRACTThe use of Pidgin English in the Nigerian context has gone beyond verbal communication to become more of a mode of behaviour as its expression has moved from informal conversation to formal situations. This above scenario necessitated this study which investigates the effects of Pidgin En...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8990 words | 📚 5 chapters

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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHEMES OF THE ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

ABSTRACTSince Language occurs in a great range of modalities; for example, it is encountered in scientific formulas as pure description unconditioned by time and place, and ideally conveys nothing about the individual who constructed it. This study focuses on analyzing and contrasting the process...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9150 words | 📚 5 chapters

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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES

abstractThis 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 c...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 10803 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

ABSTRACTThis work has dealt with the comparative study on some aspects of sociolinguistics in the novels: Things Fall Apart and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichierespectively. The two authors applied their linguistic, and social backgrounds for creati...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8906 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF PROVERBS IN SELECTED WORKS OF OLA ROTIMI

ABSTRACTLanguage is a potent weapon through which ideas, thoughts, opinions, messages and information generally are exchanged between groups of people to ensure inter-personal relationship. It is a symbol of people‟s identity and a means of identifying people‟s value system. This is p...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11794 words | 📚 5 chapters

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TERROR AND TRAGIC OPTIMISM AS SUSTAINING CONSTRUCTS IN CAMUS’S THE PLAGUE AND SOYINKA’S SEASON OF ANOMY

ABSTRACTCamus's The Plague has been read variously as an allegory of Nazi terror in France as well as a depiction of Camus's absurdist philosophy. Many critics of Soyinka's Season of Anomy strangely also have interpreted the text as an allegory of the Nigerian civil war ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9405 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIRE AND THE UNKNOWN IN BREITBACH’S REPORT ON BRUNO, ACHEBE’S A MAN OF THE PEOPLE AND MORRISON’S BELOVED

ABSTRACTThis study examines the extent the conflicts in Report on Bruno, A Man of the People, andBeloved can be related to Lacan's theory of desire. It affirms that desire is fundamentally rootedin the conflicts between the characters and the Other (mother, other subjects, the law ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6134 words | 📚 5 chapters

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