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- ItemOpen AccessSetting The Prisoners Free:(The Nigerian Group for the Study of African Cultures (NIGSAC), C/O Department of English, Ogun State University, Ago - Iwoye, Nigeria., 2000) Ezewanebe, O.C.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Past is prologue(African Writing Online Magazine, 2000) Anyokwu, CAfrican writers of fiction have long reconciled themselves to the so-called ‘fatalistic logic’ in the use of European languages such as Portuguese, French and English in the production and criticism of African literature. This is following the writers’ unwillingness to adopt a single or a group of indigenous African languages for the writing of African literatures. It has thus become fashionable for African writers of literature of English expression to fashion out an English which incorporates local African speech patterns and oral resources to convey their peculiar experience. Karen King-Aribisala, a Guyanese-Nigerian novelist and short story writer also adopts in her work, particularly The Hangman’s Game a variety of English somewhat different from the “standard” form in depicting the historical challenges which her native Guyana and her adopted country, Nigeria, have had to meet and in their common struggle for socio-economic and political emancipation from British imperialism and postcolonial contradictions. In this paper, therefore, we examine her handling of English, and the role of the language itself in shaping social life in Africa and its Diaspora.
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- ItemOpen AccessIdentities and Representations: A Socio-Semiotic Perspective to the Challenges of linguistic Pluralism, Conflicts and Nation Building in Nigeria(Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos. Akoka, Nigeria, 2001) Nwagbara, A. U.Staff Publications
- ItemOpen Accesslconicitv and the Pragmatics of Discourse in Nigerian Poetry in English: The Example of Niyi Osundare(African Cultural Institute, 2003) Nwagbara, A. U.Staff Publications
- ItemOpen AccessUsing Terrorism to Defeat Terrorism:(2005) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen Access"Carry go" : A Sociolinguistic Study of the Language of Bus Conductors in Lagos (Nigeria)(2005) Adedun, E.ALagos is a cosmopolitan Nigerian city with an elaborate transport system which is built around commercial buses of different types. Each of the commercial dialectal and highly idiosyncratic: This paper examines the language use of bus conductors in Lagos with a view to unearthing the sociolinguistic underpinning conditioning such use. A combination of notes taken through personal observation and discreet tape recording of two hundred and twenty-one communicative interactions involving the bus conductors constituted the methodology for the investigation. The outcomes of the investigation reveal that the language of Lagos bus conductors is creative, attitudinal, emotional, group-directed, solidarity corr.- ious and a manifestation of the nation's sociolinguistic imperatives.
- ItemOpen AccessElite Corruption:(2005) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessNiyi Osundare and the Interface Language Factor.(2005) Anyokwu, C.Niyi Osundare is arguably the guiding light of the "post"- Soyinka- Okigbo - Clark generation of African poets, a fact borne out by not only his prolificity but the numerous local and international awards and decorations he has won. Osundare has steadily matured over time in his deft handling of language through his unique conflation of his native Yoruba (source language) and the English language (i.e. target language). This phenomenon, akin to the Achebean prescription, is what we have termed "the Interface language". Thus. this paper seeks to demonstrate using Osundare's oeuvre how "the people's poet" does this
- ItemOpen AccessPerformance and its Aesthetics:(2005) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessLanguage, Identity And Characterisation In Selected Nigerian Plays.(University or Lagos Press, University of Lagos, Akoka - Yaba,Lagos., 2006) Eghagha, H.The multilingual or bilingual skills of the average African writer may be said to be one of the benefits of the colonial encounter. termed "ambiguous blessing" by Bjomson (19). This is evident in the ability of the continent's writers to communicate in more than one language. Apart from the language of the colonial exploiter, there are the indigenous languages of the nationalities that were brought into the ambit of colonial control. In Nigeria. which was colonised by the British. the official language was and is English. As citizens went through western education the English language was imposed and accepted as a mode of instruction in primary and secondary schools. It was also the language of the newly emergent civil service. the new elite.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Dirge As a Literary Expression.(2006) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen Access‘Literary Elements as Communicative Strategies in Advertising’(University of Lagos Press, 2006) Adedun, E.ATherefore, in this paper, an attempt is made to prove that ad vertisersare conscious of the fact that literary language contains the artistry which they strive for in their effort to achieve communicative dynamism, and this is why advertisements are spiced with literary elements. The paper makes use of ten advertisements randomly selected from the field of fashion and cosmetics. Each of the adverts is then analysed for its literary qualities.
- ItemOpen AccessKing's Horseman or Olokun- Esin? History and the Politics of Translation(University of Lagos Press, 2006) Anyokwu, CFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessKing's Horseman Or Olokun-Esin?(University or Lagos Press, University of Lagos, Akoka - Yaba,Lagos., 2006) Anyokwu, C.
- ItemOpen AccessWordPlay and Fancy: the Nigerian Question in Karen King- Aribisala's Kicking Tongues(Department of English, University of Lagos, Akoka, 2006) Anyokwu, CFull papers attached.
- ItemOpen AccessProverbializing Society:(2006) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessLiterature, Society And Terrorism:(2006-10-12) Afolayan, B.F.This paper is an attempt to investigate the causes of 'terrorist' activities in the plays of Ngugi and Osofisan. It seeks to interrogate such issues as political, social and economic malaise in society especially the issues of poverty, hunger and land expropriation which necessitate arrned resistance from the people against the government.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Relevance of Advertising to the Teaching of English(B Prints, 2007) Adedun, E.AEmphasis on language teaching has moved away from the traditional approach of composing and comprehending correct sentences as isolated units of random ocurence.
- ItemOpen AccessCulinary Norms and Social Cohesion: A Study of the Gustatory Images in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Trilogy(2008) Ohwovoriole, F.E.Socialization is a recurrent learning process through which a person becomes familiar with the social customs of a group of people. Food and wine play a central social role in life and have provided material for literature in many cultures. Food has a great deal of significance in many societies; ritualistically, symbolically, socially and practically. Consequently, cooking practices bind people together in many cultures. Literarily, gustatory images are prevalent in poetry, prose and drama both in African and European literatures. Even in the Bible food plays a vital role from Genesis to Revelation. In Ezeigbo's trilogy, food is used to elucidate gastronomic norms, as a subject of discourse, as a weapon of rivalry and as a tool for 'Social cohesion. This paper explores the culinary concerns and gustatory images in Akachi Adirnora- Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones, House of Symbols and Children of the Eagle, and assesses how they facilitate social bonding in the societies depicted in the novels.