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ABSTRACT The effects of nature and nurture on lives cut across disciplines and deal with the question of what determines patterns of human behaviour, including the results of conflicts in nature and nurture of the characters in the environment. This work studies the influence of nature and nurture in the Niger Delta region through the characters of the novels with response to the issues emanating from the region as they ...

ABSTRACT In  the   past,   it used  to   be   convenient   to   identify   two distinct   groups   in   the   history   of  Modern   Nigerian   Poetry   • the pioneers   and   the   first generation   of Modern   Nigerian   Poets, However,   the   art   and   type   of  commitment   of  the   new  Iigerian poets  have  marked   them   out   as  the   second  generation   of  Fodern Nigerian   Poets, Many   of  these  poets   are   sympathetic   to   socialism,   and   use their   poetry   to   draw  ...

ABSTRACT Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are two of the leading contemporary African-American female writers. Morrison is a Nobel Prize winner, while Walker  is a Pulitzer Prize winner.  They  also  have  to  their  credit  a  plethora of  literary  awards.  Some  critics, particularly male critics, have accused them of being very cruel in their presentations of the male characters in their works. Coming under serious attack is Alice Walker in particular, ...

ABSTRACT The global outcry of ecological degradation by human beings has been an emerging thematic focus in the creative oeuvres of writers and eco-critics in the literary domain as regards the degraded Niger Delta region of Nigeria and its consequent activism amongst her people. In view of the foregoing, this research in distancing itself from previous studies, comparatively examine the representation of ecological degradation and activism in Tanure Ojaide’s The ...

ABSTRACT Dislocation is more than a physical fact. It is an attitude, a frame of mind, appearing in gradual and harmful ways. Although dislocation is indigenous, its impact in the psyche might either be beneficial or disastrous. No wonder when it disappears in its raw form, it manifest later in subtle disguises. In this study, the researcher has been able to explore the psychology of dislocation in Amitav Ghosh’s The ...

ABSTRACT The tragic and the supernatural are key issues in African literature. The sense of the tragic is  embedded  in  the  belief  that  man  is  not  happy  by  nature.  The  concept  of  the supernatural and the tragic have been explored by writers and critics of African literature from different perspectives. This study however looks at the tragic as a mode of experience. The influence of fatalism on the characters in ...

ABSTRACT Nigerian English came into existence about four decades ago. It has been noted that some of the English language items have been attached different meanings by the Nigerian speakers of English. This semantic deviation contributed greatly to the poor development of standard grammatical competence and communicative performance among speakers of English. This work therefore, examines some of the English lexical items whose meanings have been greatly adopted to suit ...

ABSTRACT Legal language is a peculiar language used by law professionals designed for the sole objective of achieving justice through its normative and performative functions. In other words, it is used to impose rights and obligations, and equally regulate human behaviour and human relations. The irony is that the language that performs these essential roles in the lives of every individual sounds strange to the majority of non-professionals as a ...

ABSTRACT The  brutality  of  the  transatlantic  slave  trade  and  colonization  left  one  intransigent problem in its wake – the absence of authentic self-knowledge in the continental Africans and Africans in diaspora. The slave masters and colonialists portray African culture as negative and irrelevant to make Africans and the Caribbean people have no alternative but to assimilate and conform to the colonial paradigm.  The European slave and colonial masters employ the ...

ABSTRACT Character study most frequently comes up in the criticism of narrative, one of the three forms of literature.  This  is  so  because  a  narrative  text  comprises  a  unique  world—of  creatures (characters), a language and incidents—that prompts thought. The thesis is set out to investigate the peculiarity of a hero’s tragic situation. This problem is introduced in chapter one, with the attendant research questions for which the literary investigation intends ...

ABSTRACT This study is a stylistic analysis of two novels: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and House of Symbols by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo both of which were written in the 20th and the 21st centuries respectively. The stylistic insights that we get from literary texts can differ from one writer to another. This is because every writer is faced with a wide range of linguistic options from which he/she makes ...

Abstract This research studies the poetry of Christopher Okigbo as collected in the book Labyrinths. It aims at doing a text based explanation of the collection so that any understanding made of the poems in the collection point to the text and not outside of it. Paul Ricoeur’s theory of depth semantics is adopted in reading the poems as this is concerned with the study of literary works as objects ...

ABSTRACT Dislocation is more than a physical fact. It is an attitude, a frame of mind, appearing in gradual and harmful ways. Although dislocation is indigenous, its impact in the psyche might either be beneficial or disastrous. No wonder when it disappears in its raw form, it manifest later in subtle disguises. In this study, the researcher has been able to explore the psychology of dislocation in Amitav Ghosh’s The ...

ABSTRACT This research work is aimed at looking at the problems of racism and apartheid in South Africa and America with references to two selected texts from the two countries. The instruments used include library research and text analyses. Chapter one deals with introduction, background to the study, statement of problem, purpose of the study, scope and limitation, methodology used and justification. Chapter two of the work is basically concerned ...

ABSTRACT The concept of disability as an entity worthy of study in  African literature is  hardly ever considered, yet it an engaging issue. Disability means different things to different people at different times and that is what the research work sought. The four works under study: Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike, Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine, Cyprian Ekwensi’s The Drummerboy, and Gabriel Okara's The Voice looked at the subject of ...

ABSTRACT This study is a pragmatic analysis of selected political speeches of Nelson Mandela. Using the Speech Acts theory the researcher interprets Nelson Mandela’s utterances, and determines the perlocutionary acts of Mandela’s speeches in order to judge whether his speeches meet the felicity conditions as spelt out by J.L Austin (1962). The linguistic and non linguistic factors such as speech acts, socio-political context and deixis are considered as relevant situational ...

Abstract Second  language  learners  of English  find  it difficult  to  use  the  inflectional  morphemes properly when writing. The difficulties in using the morphemes arise because of the structural differences between the English language and the mother tongue of the learners. This study explores and highlights the causes of the problems faced by Igbo  learners of English as a second language in using the morphemes.  The study reveals  that the Igbo ...

Abstract Human reality has been one of the major concerns of literature. But human reality cannot  be  fully  explored  without  history.  However,  history  and  literature  have remained antithetical fields of study since we assume from the conventional notion of history as being all about the presentation of facts and literature, an untrue story. This  study  builds  from  the  existing  studies  which  have  recently  established  a relationship between history and literature; ...

ABSTRACT This study was geared towards determining how Buhari deployed persons, time, space and social relationships in the deictic field of his campaign speeches and how meaning and effect are shaped  and  conveyed  by the president’s  use of deictic  expressions  in  the  speech  to persuade APC members and  Nigerians that he was the best presidential candidate in the 2015 presidential elections. The researcher, guided by a framework  anchored on Hanks’ ...

ABSTRACT Analyses of oral literature have for long concentrated on function and form, with little or no attention paid to the aesthetic and linguistic aspects. This work applies linguistic principles to the analysis of oral literature. The purpose is to arrive at an interpretation of the tales, based on the structure, to enable us study some of the lexical and grammatical categories isolated from the tales, and to attempt constructing ...