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 ...
Phonotactics, which accounts for sound patterning, is affected by language regression in
children with autism. Existing linguistic studies on autism in Nigeria focused mainly on
general description of the disorder and ...
War, a motif in prose fiction, that depicts the varied angles of societal chaos, is explored in
Ugandan novels for different purposes. Existing literary studies on war in Uganda have largely
focused on the representations ...
Herbal sex-enhancement drugs are herbal remedies that function as energisers for sexual
intercourse, and the increase in the usage of these drugs in Nigeria has been influenced by
advertisements. Existing studies on ...
Doctor-patient consultation is a communicative situation which enables doctors to
understand patients’ health challenges in order to prescribe appropriate treatments. Earlier
works on doctor-patient interactions, ...
Virtual communities have become the largest and most diverse domains since the turn of
the century where language plays a dominant role. Studies on communities in the
Nigerian cyberspace have concentrated on discourse ...
Dialogic Internet Memes (DIMs), which aid communication of social interests and
opinions on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), are used to share previous experiences and
negotiate common ground through various contexts. ...