ABSTRACT Background: Children imitate, and model adult speech as noted in Skinner’s theory (Skinner, 1957) of language acquisition and so knowing what the children say and for what they say the words are important. Aim: The aim of the study is to identify ten early words expressed by infants aged 12 to 18 months born to Twi speaking parents. Method: Survey data was collected from 100 mothers each with her child aged 12 to 18 months, recruited from three towns (Obadan, Abotakye and Atuobikro...
Abstract: This study seeks to study narrative distance in Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady. It analyzes the narrative to show how information is dramatically presented to minimize authorial intrusion. The study uses Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse on the narrative as the instrument for determining how the narrative achieves narrator distance. Henry James is one of the key proponents of dramatic method of narration in the early 20th century, and his experiment with this technique ...
ABSTRACT It has been observed that some Ghanaians try to speak English with a foreign accent which they have locally acquired. This phenomenon, a Locally Acquired Foreign Accent (LAFA), is acknowledged to be gradually penetrating the English repertoire of some educated Ghanaians. The phenomenon is youth related. This lately acquired accent is observed to be developing due to the influence of some media institutions, especially the electronic media. This comes about through their entertainment...
Abstract This study analyses and discusses the pragmatical negation in selected U.S and Nigerian presidential speeches. It first examined the process of speaking as a form of intimated and supportive relationship that serves as the cement that holds friendships, families, communities, societies, and government together. The focus is on political discourse which is closely related to power, that puts certain political-economic, and social ideas into practice. Text of acceptance and ina...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to make a linguistic analysis of television talk show, a case study of NTA Kaduna with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in talk show. The usual assumption by discourse analysts is that language used in institutionalized or formal settings is structured and follow the tenets of discourse analysis. As a result...
ABSTRACT This work concern on how the meaning of the words/lexis can be utilized in the language of advertisement in Pidgin English. Furthermore, the result shows that Nigerian pidgin have a significant for advertisement purpose since it combines of both and indignant languages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page - - - - - - - - - - i Certification - - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - - - iii Acknowledgements - - - - - - - - iv Table of contents - - - - - - - - -v CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background Statement - - - - - - 1 1.2 The purpose of study - - - - - - - 4 1.3 The objectives of the study - - - - - - 5 1.4 The delimitation/Scope of the study - - - - 5 1.5 Methodology applied - - - - - - - 6 CHAPTER TWO Literature review 2.1 The theories of language a...
ABSTRACT This study revisits the Trans-Atlantic slavery and analyses themes in slave resistance on the African continent, as fictionalized in Ghanaian literature. The topic, ‘A Vision of Self-Redemption: A Thematic Study of Resistance to Slavery in the Works of Two Contemporary Ghanaian Writers’, is chosen because resistance is one aspect of slavery which is downplayed in the literature. Whereas the records are eloquent on the atrocities and immorality of that evil institution, those on ...
ABSTRACT The study postulates three varieties of English perfomance in the writings of Nigerians, and examines these in detail for thier "common core" features and their "indexical markers".
ABSTRACT Duration, the length of time used in speech production, is a significant phonetic stress-related criterion for determining rhythm, which is crucial for intelligibility in Standard British English (SBE). Some phonological studies on Yoruba, Hausa and Isoko Englishes claimed that these sub-varieties of Nigerian English (NE) tilt towards syllable-timing due to the absence of vowel reduction. Nevertheless, existing phonological studies on Educated Edo English (EEE) – a sub-variety of ...
ABSTRACT The portrayal of women in fictional works is still a contentious ground. Women authors have often bemoaned the portrayal of women in male-authored novels. Various scholars (Chukukere 1995; Kolawole, 1997; Fonchingong, 2006; Ohale 2010) have all argued that male-authored novels do not indeed portray a realistic picture of the African woman. This study looks at the depiction of women by women authors. The study adopts the Negofeminism theory to analyse the protagonists in four woman ...
ABSTRACT Spousal communication, a feature of language, which unravels certain sociolinguistic characteristics of a husband and his wife, is a dominant feature of African novels by female writers. Previous studies on Emecheta and Adimora-Ezeigbo were theme-based, with little attention paid to spousal communication in their novels. This study investigated the dimensions of husband-wife linguistic and paralinguistic practices in two select novels of Emecheta and Adimora-Ezeigbo, with a view to ...
ABSTRACT Crime, an act that contravenes societal values, and punishment, the penalty attracted by such act, are issues that abound in modern African novels. Previous studies on these novels have often examined the authors‟ thematic pre-occupations such as poor governance and political disillusionment, without adequate attention to the novelists‟ depiction of criminal acts and the consequent punishment. This study, therefore, examined the portrayal of these crimes and the punishment they ...
ABSTRACT The importance of prose literature to the students’ academic and moral lives is numerous. However, the rate at which students fail this subject at the school certificate level calls for urgent attention. This has led scholars to determine the influence of many teacher factors on students’ achievement but not many have focused on students’ factors especially in prose literature hence this study. The study adopted the descriptive research design of the correlational type. 223 SSI...
ABSTRACT The dislocation of individuals from homeland and attempts to belong in transnational spaces in contemporary times have become significant aspects of Nigerian migrant prose fiction. This prose fiction has gained prominence following the re-invention of the homeland irrespective of the migrant status of its writers. Studies of these writings have examined the novel genre and the reinvention of socio-political realities, with little attention to the short story genre and its concerns w...