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...

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

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

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

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...

REDUPLICATION AS A MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURE IN IGBO LANGUAGE

1.1 Background to the Study
Language is a system of signs through which human beings communicate thoughts feelings and intentions. One of the core components of language structure is morphology which deals with the interna...