English Language & Literature

CRITICALLY EXAMINE THE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF SEMANTICS Abstract Semantics, the area of linguistic study that concerns itself with the study of meaning is a...

An Insight Analysis into the Book of Acts Author The Book of Acts does not specifically identify its author. From Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1-3, it...

AN EXAMINATION OF LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN THE ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE. Leadership is an important aspect of management. Indeed it exists in various segment of the population that is studies, military, business, home, mosque, church, etc.

An Appraisal on the Condition of Economic Progress in Britain, West Europe and United State Of American in the 18th And 19th Century. After becoming one of the prosperous economic regions in Europe between 1600 and 1700, Britain dominated the European and world economy during the 19th century.

AN APPRAISAL OF THE INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF LEXICAL FIELD ANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF MEANING. The focus of semantics is the study of meaning and meaning related terms. This paper is an appraisal of the indispensable role of lexical field analysis in the study of meaning.

AN ANALYSIS OF ASIAN THEATRE. Attempting to look into the drama and theatre of the Asian world is like saddling one with the task of looking into the deep blue sea to fish out all the species of fishes therein. W. B. Worthen, based on the multifacetedness of the Asian world

Literature in Northern Nigeria: Language and Popular Culture. According to the online Encyclopædia Britannica (2015: 5), Literature is a form of human expression. But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature.

ADVERTISEMENT AS A LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION (A CASE STUDY OF EBONY MAGAZINE). In today’s media landscape where it’s very difficult to shape consumers attitude and intentions and move them to next level of buying process, advertisers find it even more difficult and challenging to break through the clutter of competing advertisement.

THE ADVENT OF CHRISTIANITY AND ITS IMPACTS ON TIV RELIGIOUS CIVILIZATION. The project work “The advent of Christianity to tiv land and its influence on church growth” traces the origin of Christianity in Tiv land, its impact and progress to the church in Tiv land.

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S “PURPLE HIBISCUS” AND CHINUA ACHEBE’S “ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH”. Language and style never moves beyond a concentration on the supremacy of words. Literary piece (such as novels) somehow contain meaning of style with language; effectively manipulated in ways that signal it as different from “ordinary”

A Study of Relationship Between Pragmatics and Stylistics. Discourse, stylistics and pragmatics are subfields of linguistics that have attained independent statuses in the arts. With the seeming differences between these fields, there exist a lot of relationships that connect the three areas of study together.

A STUDY OF COMPARISONS IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS. The Gospel of John is the fourth Gospel in the New Testament. It contains a variety of statements and information about Jesus not contained in the Synoptic Gospels.

A REVIEW OF CHAPTERS 4&6 AND PAGES 126-135 OF THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY BY B. ABANUKA CHAPTER 4 LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR: NEGRITUDE leopold sedar...

A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Computer-Mediated Discourse in Select Instant and Text Messages of Nigerian Students. The advent of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has ushered in a new era of new media, signalling unbounded possibilities for language and communication studies.

A LEXICO-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN ABSTRACT This study is a lexico-semantic analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun (ọkara...

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Threat: A Case Study of Asari Dokubo’s Utterances. Discourse analysis is generally an umbrella term for the many traditions by which discourse may be analysed. It is a critique of cognitivism that developed from the 1970s onwards, although it has its roots in the ‘turn to language’ in the 1950s (Woolgar, 1988).

A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SPEECHES BY OBY EZEKWESILI AND ABIKE DABIRI. This study is a critical discourse analysis of Oby Ezekwesili and Abike Dabiri speeches. It adopts some conceptual framework such as identity and role, ideology, power and institution, discourse of prejudice, language use etcetera; while socio-cognitive and discourse–historical

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF J.P CLARK'S THE RAFT AND FEMI OSOFISAN’S ANOTHER RAFT. Substantial amount of African literary works are adaptation of older classical, Elizabethan modern and even African playwrights.

A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS. The use of language is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the human species. Language is important to stylistics because it is a tool which obeys certain structural laws and which adapts itself to the requirement of the task for which it is used.