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- ItemOpen AccessAn Analysis of Illocutionary Force of Metaphor of Abuse in a Nollywood Movie – House of Trouble(Department of English, Ekiti State University, Nigeria, 2018) Sobola, EThis paper investigates the illocutionary force of metaphor of abuse in a Nollywood movie House of Trouble, which is a Nigerian movie produced in English with elements of sociolinguistic background of the setting of the movie. The movie employs several linguistic and cultural nuances to display linguistic features that characterized language usage in the social context in Nigeria one of which is metaphor. Metaphor is a semantic shift in language use which performs diverse communicative functions in social context and has contextual interpretations. Speech acts theory is applied to the metaphors with abusive tendency extracted from the movie, through media monitoring process, to analyse their communicative intention which is also known as illocutionary force of an utterance. The study has shown that every metaphoric utterance has communicative intentions; metaphors of abuse are performative utterances capable of creating social conflicts; metaphors of abuse are social practice with illocutionary force which may provoke perlocutionary reactions; the perlocutionary reactions of metaphors of abuse may escalate to physical violence or psychological torture. The import of the study is that movies are means of expressing social practices, especially language use with communicative intentions through re-enactment. The communicative intentions may be a source of social conflict.
- ItemOpen AccessAnimal Imagery in Selected Urhobo Proverbs and Their Educative Functions.(2008) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Archetypal Search for Kainene: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian State and the Lost Biafran Dream(Centre for African Studies (LUCAS), 2017-03-03) Awelewa, A.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s progress as a writer is remarkable. I begin with a meditation on authorial self-presentation via the signature. Her transformation from “Amanda” to “Chimamanda” is reflective of the desire of someone who suddenly discovers a missing cultural link in her personality and quickly backtracks to find this cultural link with a view to reintegrating the lost elements within the existing corpus. The author finds more in the full complement of deep expression and cultural reinterpretation conveyed by the full name – Chimamanda – which the mutant, Amanda, might never have been able to project. The presence of “Ngozi,” which translates to “blessing” in Igbo is a meaningful portrayal of Adichie’s re-emergence on the Nigerian literary scene, having previously tried her hand at poetry and drama at the onset of her publishing career. The career “makeover” of Adichie is worthy of note in the sense that the less famous poet and playwright Amanda suddenly gives way to the world-acclaimed and award-winning Chimamanda, the novelist.
- ItemOpen AccessArgumentative Patterns in President Goodluck Jonathan’s Inaugural Speech(Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2013) Sobola, EPolitical discourse is an effective tool in the hand of political actors useful for handling sensitive political issues that affect a part of society or society as a whole. Every political actor uses political discourse to present their arguments in a well structured logical way to their people. This paper carries out a discourse analysis of the inaugural speech of President Goodluck Jonathan using Toulmin’s Argument Model to investigate the argumentative patterns in the speech to reveal its communicative and persuasive features. The speech is analysed using the six components of persuasive argument in the model. In this paper we argue that every discourse is an argument; political discourse is a means of expressing political ideology; political discourse has argumentative patterns; and political discourse is an expression of power in a persuasive way.
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- ItemOpen AccessBilingualism in Pluricentrism: Investigating the Conflict of Standards in English Pronunciation in Nigeria(International Conference on African Literature and the English Language,, 2016) Anyagwa, Carol NgoziThe English language in its many varieties embodies the legacy of European colonisation in many African countries, with the consequence of making many Africans bilingual in English and their indigenous languages. One controversial issue about bilingualism in Africa, however, has been the question of accent; given that both endoglossic and exoglossic models exist for English pronunciation. Obviously, on paper, many Anglophone African countries settle for the „prestige‟ accent of their colonial masters which, in former British colonies, is the Received Pronunciation (RP). However, a close look at the accent of English spoken/ taught in a country like Nigeria shows that what obtains is a hybrid accent manifesting not just local features but also pronunciation features of more than one exoglossic standard. Using primary data collected from 100 teachers and students of English in Lagos, Nigeria, the study reveals the confusion created by the coexistence of these multiple pronunciation models in the country. The study, therefore, lends its voice to the query about the rationale behind the adoption of exoglossic spoken models for the teaching of English pronunciation in Anglophone African countries.
- 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 AccessChimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck:(2008) Anyokwu, C.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a much-decorated, award winning female Nigerian novelist whose debut novel entitled Purple Hibiscus and her superlative sophomore war novel Half o fa Yellow Sun have earned her a place in the burgeoning Nigerian (African) canon. Sharing her time between Nigeria, her motherland, and the United States of America where she took all her university degrees and works, Adichie has successfully mined her Diaspora experience as material for her imaginative apprehension of as well as critical engagement with the contemporary (post)-modem condition conveyed through the institutional site of literary creativity. In this connection, therefore, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the story collection entitled The Thing Around Your Neck thematises the timeless problematique of migrancy as the inevitable repercussion of socio-economic adversity occasioned by bad leadership and. at a much deeper level. as an onto logic condition of man. This paper, therefore, uses Adichie's work as template to reflect on migrancy as a shaping or framing term of existential experience of Third world inhabitants in particular and humankind in general.
- ItemOpen AccessCognition of Metaphorical Text in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Inaugural Speech(Language Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul Korea, 2020-09) Sobola, EPolitical discourse has gained prominence in Nigeria and a crop of literature has emerged from different fields of study to discuss how the discourse has presented issues prevalent in the country at different political epochs. Political discourse uses figurative language such as metaphor, simile, metonymy, paradox, irony and antithesis. The use of figurative language raises issues on interpretation and cognition of political discourse. This study investigates cognition of metaphors used by President Muhammadu Buhari in his inaugural speech on his assumption of office as the president of Nigeria on 29th May, 2015, which was identified as data and collected through media monitoring. Theory of lexical concept and cognitive model (LCCM) propounded by Vyvyan Evans was employed for analysis. The study concludes that metaphors are used in political discourse to encode ideological belief; interpretation of ideological views in the metaphorical text contributes towards cognition of the metaphor in political discourse; a metaphor is an embodiment of ideologies which could not be easily interpreted in a literal sense; linguistic contents in the metaphor and their relationships contribute towards interpretation and cognition of metaphors, and metaphors in Nigerian political discourse address Nigerian contemporary political issues.
- ItemOpen AccessComprehension and Summary Writing' Use of English GST 105. Oko Okoro and E.A. Adedun (eds) Lagos:(University of Lagos Press, 2012., 2012) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessA Conceptual Mapping of Metaphors in a Nollywood Film - Ẹ̀lúkú Ìràwọ̀(Department of Linguistic, African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos, 2019) Sobola, EFilm is one of the effective tools used in communicating cultures through language use in a speech community, and such language is enriched with metaphorical expressions. The use of language in film is a reflection of language as it is used in real human society. Nigerian films make use of language filled with metaphorical expressions. This paper examines the use of metaphors in Ẹ̀lúkú Ìràwọ̀ (Ẹ̀lúkú the star), a contemporary Nigerian film produced in Yoruba and subtitled in English. The paper utilized the Conceptual Metaphor Theory as propounded by Lakoff and Johnson for the study of metaphor in everyday language to examine the analytical mapping of metaphors in the film. The study reveals the beauty of language use in the film and makes the creative work aesthetically satisfying by showing understanding of one conceptual domain in terms of another. It also shows that there is metaphor in our everyday language as portrayed in the film, and that metaphor is rightly situated in the appropriate context of language use with cultural expressions. The paper concludes that metaphors and especially conceptual metaphors are veritable cultural tools that enrich language use, spur artistic productions and aid aesthetic satisfaction.
- ItemOpen Access"Creativity as Celebrations of Joy and Pain: David Diop's "Africa" and the Semiotisation of History"(The Faculty of Arts University of Lagos, 2010) Nwagbara, A. U.The conjuration of history as a metaphor of creativity in African literary writings represents a seminal reconstruction of the intensity of the collective experiences of the continent, a re-living of its joys and pains, the creative enterprise and the culture of its actualisation in African literary experience 10 u large extent signify the expression and celebration of the joys and pains of its history. The persistent interjection of fact and fiction in African literary imagination represents the reconstruction and re-enactment of the experiences of the African peoples over lime, the revocation of the power of memory as a process of not just probe and recall, bur a journey into the collective subconscious of Africans as a celebration of their history through literature. 111 this sense, creativity is, as well as en/ails a complex and intricate process and activity of recall. the conscious invocation of the collective experiences and encounters of the African peoples with their past, their transformation into the present and a projection into the future. This paper therefore sets out 10 study Diop's "Africa" and its signification of history as celebrated encounter of recall an-d reconstruction of Africa's joy and pain through time and space, it sets out to examine how literary creativity constitutes an avenue through which the collective -experience of a people is expressed as well as being a medium for marking and celebrating the joys and pains of their historical realities and interests, This situation is more relevant in Africa given the close link between history and literature.
- 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.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Dirge As a Literary Expression.(2006) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessDrama And Social Change:(2012) Afolayan, B.F.This paper is an exploration of the concept of drama as an instrument of social re-ordering and of Osofisan 's belief in its use to assert the equal humanity of all men. In Once upon Four Robbers, Osofisan argues that armed robbery is a societal creation and as such demands a societal solution and not recourse to divine intervention. The paper investigates the unusual theme and characterisation, harsh and vitriolic use of language and tone as employed by Osofisan in this play. It concludes with the playwright's artistic mediation. of this social experience and his proffered solution to the social menace constiiuted by armed robbery. Change is at the centre of this discourse. The play becomes a veritable weapon in Osofisan's hand to call for change in society. Whether he succeeds or not in this bid is what is examined in this paper.
- ItemOpen AccessEffective English for Business And Professional Communication(Verodays Publishers Lagos, Nigeria., 2010) Adedun, E.A.
- ItemOpen AccessElite Corruption:(2005) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessEnacting The Dirge:(2012-06) Ohwovoriole, F.E.The dirge is poetry performed within the context of funeral and memorial ceremonies. This study deals with the performers of dirges among the Urhobo of the Niger-Delta of Nigeria. The performance of the poetry is done by both men and women and each category has distinct role to play. The dirge is all art that is essentially literary and utilitarian and there are significant features of performance which make the dirge unique in the literary situation of the Urhobo. Although the deceased is the focal point of most of the dirges, the artistry of mourners/performers is as evident as insights into the people's way of life. Performers enact various styles in delivering the dirge. The purpose of this paper is to examine the various performative categories ill the process of enacting the dirge.
- ItemOpen AccessEschatological Motifs and Socio-Spiritual Aspects of Urhobo Funeral Poetry.(2010) Ohwovoriole, F.E.
- ItemOpen AccessGood Writing And Excellent Communication.(Verodays Publishers Lagos, Nigeria., 2010) Adedun, E.A.