LINGUISTIC STUDY OF SELECTED NIGERIAN CHILDREN’S POETRY IN OSSIE ENEKWE’S GENTLE...
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Poetic language is the language in which the words are artfully selected and combined in their best order in order to convey thoughts meaningfully....
LITERATURE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS AMONG USERS OF ENGLISH...
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The study of a second language aims at a good command of the language for the purpose of communication and does not therefore rule...
MARXIST ANALYSIS OF ABUBAKAR GIMBA’S WITNESSES TO TEARS AND IFEOMA OKOYE’S...
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This research examines the objective issues raised by the African/Nigerian pioneer Marxists. One of such issues is that the majority of African/Nigerian authors have...
MERGER OF THEME AND STYLE IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND...
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This work is a study of the merger of theme and style in Chimamada Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman. It is an analysis of...
METAPHORIZATION OF LEADERSHIP CRISIS IN SOME CARTOONS OF NATIONAL DAILIES
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This study takes a critical view on how metaphor choices used in the language of cartoons in national dailies depict leadership crisis, as well as views...
MODIFIERS IN ADVERTISEMENTS INTHE PUNCH AND THE SUN NEWSPAPERS
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The world of advertising may seem commonplace but its language is actually arcane to many, for they are naive to the subtlety and nuances...
NARRATING RACISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS...
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Really, racism against the Black man has had a long history, although it ranks unarguably amongst the most unspeakable crimes in human history. The...
NARRATIVE TIME IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S PETALS OF BLOOD, DEVIL ON...
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Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Petals of Blood, Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow are novels that have attracted a great deal of critical attention, and they...
NATURE AND NURTURE IN SELECTED NOVELS OF AGARY KAINE, OKPEWHO ISIDORE,...
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The effects of nature and nurture on lives cut across disciplines and deal with the question of what determines patterns of human behaviour, including...
Nigerians and Politeness Expression in the English Language: A Study of...
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In Nigeria, the English language is the language of everyday communication, especially in work places. To support this, most employers of labour expect a...
ODO ONYEKA MA Thesis
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
One of the problems of the problems of governance structures of the present Igbo society is the myth of...
OLUCHI OKEUGO ph.d main thesis
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
What does it mean to be autotelic? Is autotelic an attribute of the individual, or do certain environmental factors...
ORALITY AND THE AESTHETICS OF PERFORMANCE IN EGARA POETRY OF OBIMO
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This investigation of egara as an oral genre is challenged with the fact that there had not been any previous research on it even at ethnographic...
POLITENESS FORMS AND HEDGING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH AMONG IGBO BILINGUALS
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The objective of the study was to conduct a linguistic analysis of politeness and hedging strategies in the conversational English of Igbo bilinguals. Through...
Pragmatic Analysis of the Dramatic Dialogues in Ngugi Wa Thiongo &...
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The work focused on the Pragmatic Analysis of Dramatic Dialogues in Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Micere Githae Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and Femi Osofisan’s Morountodum. ...