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Towards a Typology of Locutionary Strategies: A Case Study of Selected Nigerian Film Discourses
Language users violate linguistic conventions because meaning is not exhaustive. They control language for effective communication. This study attempts a classification of locutionary (communicative) strategies via an analysis of selected utterances from Nigerian film discourses (recorded conversational ...
Participant Roles in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Editorials
The study investigated participant roles in selected editorials in Nigerian newspapers. The data for the study were editorials. The editorials were taken from The Nigerian Tribune, The Punch and The Vanguard. Seven editorials were selected and each editorial was labelled T1, T2, ... T7 for proper analysis. ...
From The Theory of Mimesis to Moral Corruption in The Family: A Literary Critique of Helon Habila’s Measuring Time
This paper investigates the motif of moral corruption that has taken root in the modern family. The focus is on Helon Habila’s novel, Measuring time, and analysis is provided on Habila’s use of language, characterisation, symbolism, collocation and the saturation technique to expose the motif ...
Language Policy and Planning in Nigeria: The Journey So Far
This study is an incisive overview of issues bordering on language policy and planning in multi-lingual Nigeria. British rule in Nigeria marked the beginning of doom for Nigerian languages. This was because English was entrenched constitutionally in sensitive and significant spheres of nation-building: ...
Implications of the Sociocultural Theory on Students’ Reading Comprehension
In the Nigerian classrooms, teachers focus much attention on the linguistic aspects of the text neglecting the other aspects such as readers and background knowledge in teaching reading comprehension. Therefore, this paper discusses the sociocultural views on reading comprehension and reports students’ ...
The potency of pragmatic theoretical frameworks in the analysis of female literary writings in northern Nigeria
The paper examines the potency of pragmatic theories in the analysis of female writings in northern Nigeria. As a literary genre, poetry is unique for deploying enchanting language in the communication of the poet’s thematic preoccupations. In using language to communicate themes or subject matter, ...
“The accident of the accent”: satiric reflections of contemporary Nigeria in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata
The accident of the accent is the hilarious and artistic device Wole Soyinka employs to portray the societal failings and ways to ameliorate them in Alapata Apata as a writer of national consciousness and global realities. Previous critical studies on this text have focused on the avalanche of satirical ...