ABSTRACT: Stylistics encompasses the examination and analysis of texts through the lenses of both linguistics and literature. The purpose of this study was to analyse the fundamental language characteristics employed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her work, The T...

ABSTRACT: The present investigation entails a comprehensive lexico-semantic analysis of the literary work titled "Half of a Yellow Sun" (ọkara nke an odo anyanwụ).The objective of this research is to analyse and determine the organisation and categorization of identifie...

ABSTRACT: Words form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text messages among the students of the University of Ilorin. Lexical features, Lexical...

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BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: Advertising has often been defined functionally and semantically and there are quite a number of such definitions around. Wri...

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Introduction: The level of orientation achieved by the adolescent in the society today, plays back to the kind of early care which the child received from parents, pre – school teachers and the society...

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Background to the study: One sociolinguistic implication of the diffusion of English language - an amalgam of the three paltry languages of the J...

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INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: As to the review of information technology, it combines the collection, gathering, recording, storing, processing and communi...

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INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the background to the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, scope of the study, delimitation, limitation and the definition of te...

Introduction

Spam is a term used to describe an unrequested and undesirable message transmitted electronically by a sender who has no existing connection with the recipient (Cormack, 2006). There are multiple categories of electronic sp...

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This research is an investigation into the linguistic issues (stylistic and semantic) that are involved in literary translation. The main focus of the work is the study of aspects of style in relation to the functions of language as portrayed in the translated proverbs a...

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This research intentionally investigated the literary works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo‟s Roses and Bullets and Trafficked to reveal their accomodationist styles. Over the years, researchers who engaged in the st...

1.1Background of the Study

The global community of science and technology has continued to advance and hence the requirements for communication in this area has become increasingly demanding. This is in line with the saying of Chinua Achebe that when the bird learns to fly without perch...

1.1Background to the Study

Language is a fundamental element used by humans for the purpose of communication. There are highly technical usages of the word “language” reflecting the way the term has been figuratively applied to all forms of human endeavours, such as the lang...

1.1Background to the Study

The English language has become an international medium of communication among people on earth. The mastery of good English is deemed necessary for bringing a lot of advantages in many ways. This international language is not only used for communication purpos...

An assessment of the phonological implications of language borrowing in Igbo communities

Background of the study
Language borrowing is a pervasive phenomenon in Igbo communities, where historical and contemporar...

The impact of morpheme structure on vocabulary development among Yoruba children in Ibadan

Background of the study
Morpheme structure, the smallest units of meaning in a language, plays a crucial role in vocabul...

The effect of affixation processes on Igbo word formation in Enugu

Background of the study
Affixation, a fundamental morphological process, plays a pivotal role in word formation in Igbo. In Enugu, where Igbo is...

An evaluation of compound word formation in Hausa language in Kano

Background of the study
Compound word formation is a dynamic morphological process that contributes significantly to the expressive capacity of...

An examination of reduplication phenomena in Tiv language in Benue State

Background of the study
Reduplication, the repetition of a syllable or word, is a common morphological process used to convey intensity, p...

An assessment of the role of compounding in the development of Nigerian Pidgin vocabulary

Background of the study
Compounding, the process of combining two or more words to create new lexical items, is a promine...