• Cognition of Metaphorical Text in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Inaugural Speech 

  Sobola, E (Language Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul Korea, 2020-09)

  Political 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 ...

• Metaphor of Time in Ebenezer Obey Songs: A Pragmatic Analysis 

  Sobola, E. (Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, 2016)

  Music is an agent of socialisation which portrays cultural heritage of a group of people through the use of language that reflects philosophical thought, social and linguistic background of a group of people in a figurative ...

• Argumentative Patterns in President Goodluck Jonathan’s Inaugural Speech 

  Sobola, E (Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2013)

  Political 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 ...

• An Analysis of Illocutionary Force of Metaphor of Abuse in a Nollywood Movie – House of Trouble 

  Sobola, E (Department of English, Ekiti State University, Nigeria, 2018)

  This 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 ...

• A Conceptual Mapping of Metaphors in a Nollywood Film - Ẹ̀lúkú Ìràwọ̀ 

  Sobola, E (Department of Linguistic, African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos, 2019)

  Film 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 ...

• INTRODUCTION TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 

  Osoba, S; Sobola, E (Faculty of Languages, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, 2014)

  There is often an interchange of language and discourse by learners in the linguistic and literary fields in the attempt to account for the use of language in various fields of study. In this chapter, we explicate discourse, ...

• Meaning in Metaphors Used in Nollywood Films: A Lexical Concept Integration 

  Sobola, Eniayo (Language Research Institute, Sejong University, 2019)

  This paper examines contributions of the semantic potential of lexical items in the metaphorical expressions used in Nollywood films towards realisation of the intended meaning. Metaphor can be described as a semantic ...

• The Relevance of Metaphors to Sociolinguistic Meaning in Nollywood Movies 

  Sobola, Eniayo (Department of English, University of Lagos, 2019)

  This paper examines the relevance of metaphors in the interrogation of sociolinguistic meaning in the language of selected Nollywood movies. Metaphors are explored through the concept of context as an analytical framework ...

• A SYNTACTIC STUDY OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN NOLLYWOOD MOVIES 

  Sobola, Eniayo; Agboola, Olubunmi (Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2016)

  Syntax deals with structural arrangement of grammatical elements in phrases, clauses and sentences. It does not only involve words ordering in a sentence: it also investigates the relationship between the forms of words ...

• The Relevance of Advertising to the Teaching of English 

  Adedun, E.A (B Prints, 2007)

  Emphasis on language teaching has moved away from the traditional approach of composing and comprehending correct sentences as isolated units of random ocurence.

• ‘Literary Elements as Communicative Strategies in Advertising’ 

  Adedun, E.A (University of Lagos Press, 2006)

  Therefore, 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 ...

• "Carry go" : A Sociolinguistic Study of the Language of Bus Conductors in Lagos (Nigeria) 

  Adedun, E.A (2005)

  Lagos 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 ...

• Identities and Representations: A Socio-Semiotic Perspective to the Challenges of linguistic Pluralism, Conflicts and Nation Building in Nigeria 

  Nwagbara, A. U. (Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos. Akoka, Nigeria, 2001)

  Staff Publications

• Rhetorical Creations, Poetications: A Speech Acts Analysis of Niyi Osundare's "Poetry Is" And Tanure of Jaide's “The Fate of Vultures" 

  Nwagbara, A.U (Pumark Publishers Lagos, 2010)

  This paper carries out an analysis of language use in poetry as a form of creative and rhetorical enterprise that entails the performance of a set of linguistic acts. Based on the principles of J. L. Austin's Speech Acts ...

• "Creativity as Celebrations of Joy and Pain: David Diop's "Africa" and the Semiotisation of History" 

  Nwagbara, A. U. (The Faculty of Arts University of Lagos, 2010)

  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, ...

• Primal Fantasy and Story-Telling in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. 

  Ohwovoriole, F.E. (2008)

• Sound Semiotics of Osundare's Poetry. 

  Anyokwu, C.C. (Purdue University Press ©Purdue University., 2013)

• Marginalized Femininity in a Masculinized World: 

  Ohwovoriole, F.E. (2012-03)

• lconicitv and the Pragmatics of Discourse in Nigerian Poetry in English: The Example of Niyi Osundare 

  Nwagbara, A. U. (African Cultural Institute, 2003)

  Staff Publications

• Power Dynamics and Social Relations in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah. 

  Ohwovoriole, F.E. (2010)

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