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 ...
Exclusive Breastfeeding (EB), the feeding of infants with breastmilk only in the first
six months of life, is a determinant of nutritional status of children and an
enhancement of nursing mothers’ health. Previous studies ...
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Ḥalāl food is food that is in conformity with the Sharī‘ah dictates. However, in the South West, Nigeria, a number of foods patronised by Muslims are largely produced and supervised in the context of Codex ...
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 ...
Genocide and dissonance, experienced by ethnic nationalities in Africa, lead to wanton
destruction of lives and property. Previous studies on these phenomena concentrated on
causal factors and various preventive and ...
Policy development, an iterative process designed to help organisations advance policies
to make them run efficiently in the realisation of their corporate objectives, is pivotal for
organisational success, including the ...
Poetics of politics, the use of poems to reflect governance in the society, is common
among Yoruba written poets. These poets use their poetic prowess to showcase their
political poems. Previous studies on contemporary ...
Riddle, a form of literary art in which a speaker employs formulaic expressions to test
someone’s wit on a veiled phenomenon, is deployed in languages (including Yorùbá) to
express peoples’ experiences about their ...
Lexical elaboration, a strategy in which new lexical items are developed, is a manifest
feature of languages, including Naija. Extant linguistic studies on Naija focused mainly
on the sociological and attitudinal dimensions, ...
Pronunciation Variation (PV), a situation where a lexical item is articulated differently by
speakers of a language, is prevalent in Nigerian languages, especially those with
multiplicity of dialects, including Igbo. ...
Segmental assimilation, which affects features that are inherent in segments, is
generally situated within the phonology-morphology interface across languages,
including Hausa. Previous studies on Hausa reduplicative ...
Pronouns, words which refer anaphorically to noun phrases whose referents are named or
understood from context, are one of the universal linguistic categories that play a central
role in the grammar of languages, including ...
Orin kete and Orin agbè are Yorùbá oral poetic forms predominantly performed among the
Ìbàràpá and Òkè-Ògùn people of Ọ̀ yọ́ State, South-West Nigeria. Previous studies on Yorùbá
oral poetry have focused largely on poetic ...
Herdsmen-farmers’ conflict (HFC) is one of the major conflicts that has been widely reported in
Nigeria. Extant linguistic studies on HFC in Nigerian newspapers focused mainly on linguistic
framing, as well as discursive ...
Stand-up Comedy (SUC), a form of entertainment involving humour, is commonly
deployed for social re-engineering among Africans, including Ivorians. Extant linguistic
studies on humour in Côte d’Ivoire concentrated mainly ...
Orature, a literature that is oral, is evident in African poetry, including that of
Francophone West African Negritude poets. Previous studies on West African
Francophone poetry focused on form, content and style with ...