ABSTRACT Language and man are inseparable and since the languages of the world come in contact, there is bound to be a problem like mother tongue interference which is a sociolinguistic phenomenon. This work takes for granted that grammatical competence is totally different from phonological competence and it has worked on this premise using phonological conventions in analysing the sampled data. The findings proved that interference at the phonological level is a major problem confronting ou...
ABSTRACT The contemporary African Literature is believed to be a revolutionary literature that looks critical into contemporary social situations with a view of amending the wrongs therein. However, no writer writes in a vacuum but within the scope of human experiences, happening around him, and particularly the experiences he met on ground in his society. This is the Orature of his society. The tool adopted for this research was the sociological theory, this is because it e...
ABSTRACT This study has been embarked upon to present the politics and aesthetics in selected plays of Wole Soyinka paying much attention to his The Beatification of Area Boy and Kongi’s Harvest. The study has been able to extract and discuss the ways in which Wole Soyinka applied cultural artifacts to political issues to depict the happenings in his immediate society. The sociological approach has been used in respect to the Marxist theory. The study has conclusively pointed to the fact t...
ABSTRACT There have been interests over ages in studying how people communicate during interaction. This interest has lead to the emergence of discourse analysis which has the aim of studying how people communicate using sentence or clauses. In view of this, Naira has no gender, a play by Olu Obafemi, was selected in order to study and interpret how speeches were formed in the conversation between and among interlocutors in the play. Six transactions, which serve as our data were selected fro...
Abstract It is observed that quite a number of adults are unable to learn a second language apart from their mother tongue. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons behind the poor or no acquisition of Second Language in adults. We have, therefore, collected our data through questionnaire and employed descriptive statistics, using single percentage in tabular form, bar charts and histograms to analyse our data. The major findings are that 18(30%) of our respondents a...
ABSTRACT Slangy expressions and catchy phrases are deliberately used in hip-hop songs in order to reduce the degree of vulgarity in the content of the song so as not to disrupt society moral norms, and to increase the rate of acceptability of such song amidst listeners, to avoid direct stating of the name of the referent (s) in a satirical song for instance, and also for singers to create a landmark worth discussing even while the song is no longer in vogue. Aside all these, slang forms and c...
ABSTRACT This study has been embarked upon to present the politics and aesthetics in selected plays of Wole Soyinka paying much attention to his The Beatification of Area Boy and Kongi’s Harvest. The study has been able to extract and discuss the ways in which Wole Soyinka applied cultural artifacts to political issues to depict the happenings in his immediate society. The sociological approach has been used in respect to the Marxist theory. The study has conclusively pointed to the fact th...
ABSTRACT Facts have been established by researchers and they justify that the English used in Nigeria is a variation of the British English (BE) and not a deviation from the norms of BE. This is an attempt to investigate the extent to which Nigerian columnists use the lexico-semantic features of Nigerian English for their reportings. This work has adopted the lexico-semantic variation of Nigerian English as identified by Babatunde (2001) as our working parameters alongside our data which ar...
ABSTRACT This work focuses on the metaphysical approach as portrayed by Amos Tutuola’s The Palwine Drinkard and D.O Fagunwa’s The Forest of God. This study shows how metaphysics was used in the two plays. Metaphysics is based on the use of myths, gods, medicine and use of god like creatures. The novels are used to show these facts.Research done has helped shed more light on what entails metaphysics and how it exists in our world and the belief people have in it. TABLE OF CONTENTS T...
ABSTRACT Stylistics is the study of linguistic and non linguistic aspects of style in spoken and written text. Advertising is a form of communication used to help sell products and services. Adverts are not just to fascinate, but rather, they are used by advertisers to achieve their persuasive goals. This study reveals the manner in which language is used in Bank advertisements for conveying messages to the public and the effectiveness of the choice of language. The stylistic elements employe...
ABSTRACT This study is set out to analysis the issues of poverty, class stratification and social injustice in Olu Obafemi’s Wheels and Festus Iyayi’s Violence. The purpose is to enlighten Africans on the need to fight against all forms of social injustice. The Marxist theory is adopted for the analysis of this study. The result is that the quest for a classless society is the only way for a better living. TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE i DEDICATIONii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSiii CERTIFICATIONiv ...
ABSTRACT The Concept of Class struggle describes the constant conflict among the existing strata in every society. The purpose of this academic research is to explore the meaning and important of class struggle in the context of the selected texts. The theoretical framework for this research is the Marxist-Leninist theory, which could be simply summarized as the reaction of the exploited to get rid of exploitation and the exploiters. Various styles used by the duo of Iyayi and Falls is descri...
INTRODUCTION Connu également sous le nom de « soccer », le football est un sport collectif opposant deux équipes de onze joueurs dans un stade. L’objectif primaire de football est de mettre un ballon sphérique dans le but adverse sans utiliser le bras. Pour bien soutenir l’idée avancée dans ce paragraphe qui précède, nous proposons d’or et déjà le sujet de notre travail comme « le football au Nigeria et en France » Ce sujet a été choisi, car nous voulons croire que le...
INTRODUCTIONParler de la littérature, c’est tout simplement parler de la vie politique, sociale, économique ou culturelle d’une communauté donnée. Autrement dit, la littérature est la représentation du vécu social, c’est-à-dire, tous les événements positifs ou négatifs qui arrivent à l’homme dans la société. Nombreux auteurs et écrivains se sont inspirés du vécu quotidien de l’homme comme muse pour nous exprimer leur sentiment et leur état d’âmé. En effet, ces ...
INTRODUCTION Comme le sujet l’indique, notre travail sera consacré aux musées francophone et anglophone. L’histoire du musée est généralement vaste ; nous allons traiter essentiellement les musées d’Esie (anglophone) et de Ouidah (francophone). Avant de commencer à traiter le musée, nous allons donner une petite définition du musée. Selon Le dictionnaire Larousse (2009), le musée est un : Lieu, établissement où est conservée, exposée, mise en valeur une collection d�...