Disability, a motif in African fiction, is used as a trope of postcolonial disillusionment and empowerment. Existing studies on disability in African fiction have concentrated mostly on its literal interpretations, with ...
Significations are important features of disaster narratives that have consistently featured
in online news. Previous linguistic studies on disaster mainly focused on lexicosemantics,ix
discourse patterns and rhetoric ...
Entitlement, which typifies context-bound expression of individuals’ rights, power and privileges
over environmental resources, constitutes a major theme in news reports on herdsmen-farmers
conflict on Nigerian online ...
Public opinion columns in Nigerian newspapers often provide vital information on
sociopolitical issues. Previous studies on political media discourse focused on how public
opinions shape pre-election political debates ...
African migrant fiction, which recreates characters’ experiences at home and abroad, is
increasingly preoccupied with the representation of dystopian realities. Critical appraisals
of the fiction have largely focused on ...
Apology, a face-supporting act that maintains harmony between interactants in
discourses, also occurs in drama texts, including those of Wole Soyinka and Ola
Rotimi. Extant linguistic studies on apology largely focused ...
The representation of political leaders in editorials provides insight into the media organisations'
perception of their policies, activities and socio-political reforms of these leaders. Previous
studies on Nigerian ...
Translation, a means through which messages are conveyed to non-native speakers of a language, is deployed in subtitling of films, including Túndé Kèlání's. Existing linguistic studies on Yorùbá films focused mainly ...
Multilingualism is one of the features of language contact that characterise language use in
the public space of cosmopolitan areas like Ibadan. Existing linguistic studies on landscape
mostly focused on semiotic analysis ...
Physics is an important science subject that should be given a solid foundation at
secondary school level. However, reports have shown that students, especially in Ondo
city, Nigeria, considered it as a difficult subject ...
Olusegun Obasanjo‘s non-fictional texts explicate a representation of Nigerian socio-political
history and have stirred up serious national political arguments. Extant studies on Obasanjo‘s
self-constructs have mostly ...
The discourse of environmental degradation captures monumental losses which culminate
in trauma, and this largely informs the content as well as the form of Niger Delta poetry.
Existing studies on critical engagements ...
Terrorism is a controversial subject because of its variations and the perpetrators. Extant
literary studies have approached terrorism from the trauma perspective and the relationship
between the West and its Others, ...
During presidential election campaigns in Nigeria, online media platforms deploy cartoons
as strategies to project their preferred candidates. Existing linguistic studies on presidential
elections focused largely on ...
Child vulnerability which involves the susceptibility of a child to abuse can spring from
the interface of harmful sociocognitive factors, evident in the discourse of Anti Human
Trafficking and Child Protection Unit ...
Crime narratives of Accused Rapists (ARs) in correctional facilities, like Agodi
Custodial Centre, Ibadan, offers insights into confessional cues that could aid
administration of justice in Nigeria. Existing linguistic ...
Banter, a form of playful and humorous social communication, is deployed in football
discourse on Twitter. Previous studies on banter focused largely on the social bonding
function of banter in daily interaction and the ...
Presidential election campaign advertisements in Nigerian newspapers deploy multimodal
and persuasive discourse strategies, which are contextually predetermined to influence
voters’ decisions before an election. Existing ...
Paradoxical metaphor, the co-occurrence of paradox and metaphor, constitutes an
unusual trope in the representation of mental processes of ailing characters in novels.
Existing studies on the representation of ailing ...
Discourse representations ascribed to social actors unveil ideological orientations in
newspaper reports on migration. Previous studies on migration have explored sociolinguistic,
media and literary issues, with little ...