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1. INCORRECT PUNCTUATION, AS A CAUSE OF AMBIGUITY AND MISUNDERSTANDING IN WRITTEN C...

» ABSTRACT Ambiguity is a linguistic phenomenon in which more than one meaning, or deep structure, may be represented by the same expression, or surface structure; the same word or similar sounding words for example can have multiple meaning. It arises from different sources; phonology, syntax and punctuation. In this task, ambiguity is the preoccupation of this task. It is a point where two s...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 9,538 engagements |

2. CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE– IN – ENGLISH

» ABSTRACT This study examined the Correlation between English – language and literature – English: A case study of MELL, UDUS, Sokoto. The research centers on finding out the reason why most students in tertiary institutions being scared of some aspects of the genres of literature with emphasis majorly on poetry. Research questions were formulated based on the above variables. Two researc...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 8,056 engagements |

3. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND HAUSA NOMINAL PHRASES

» ABSTRACT This research studies the occurrence of the constructions and functions of NPs in English and Hausa languages, and finds out the similarities and differences that exist between them. Data are collected from primary and secondary sources, i.e. published Grammar, Linguistics and Comparative Analysis, unpublished lecture note; internet based material as well as personal observation. Th...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 7,753 engagements |

4. AMBIGUITIES IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

» ABSTRACT This project analyses semantic ambiguous headlines stating their communicative effectiveness with regards to print media. Using data from Vanguard and Daily Trust newspapers, the study discovered that ambiguities are prevalent in the newspaper headlines as a result of various manipulations on sentences and lexical choice. This leads to the possibility of multiple meanings and int...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 7,321 engagements |

5. A PRAGMARTICS ANALYSIS OF NEGATION IN SELECTED U.S AND NIGERIAN PRESIDENTAL SPEE...

» ABSTRACT This Study analyses and discusses the pragmatically negation in selected U.S and Nigerian presidential speeches. It first examined the process of speaking as a form of intimated and supportive relationship that serves as cement that holds friendships, families, communities, societies and government together. The focus is on political discourse which is closely related to power, that...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 4,722 engagements |

6. A PEDAGOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

» ABSTRACT This study aims to present a particular view of second language pedagogy. Teaching English as a second language is a quite complex task for a teacher. Language learning should be more fun and enjoyable for students to learn. Teachers need to have effective teaching strategies in order for students to grasp better in learning English. The objective of this study is to investigate the me...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 8,395 engagements |

7. A LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF TELEVISION TALK SHOW

» ABSTRACT This study seeks to make a linguistic analysis of television talk show, a case study of NTA Kaduna with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in talk show. The usual assumption by discourse analysts is that language used in instit...Continue Reading »

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8. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SCAM MAILS

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the general overview of this research work as well as its significance and statement of problems and also possible solution to those problems as this study is aimed to achieve. 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Scam mails are a form of financial fraud in which huge offers of money are made to people provided they pass on ban...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 5,482 engagements |

9. A LEXICO-SEMANTIC STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT IN PIDGIN ENGLISH

» ABSTRACT This work concern on how the meaning of the words/lexis can be utilized in the language of advertisement in Pidgin English. Furthermore, the result shows that Nigerian pidgin have a significant for advertisement purpose since it combine of both and indignant languages. CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background to the study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Objective...Continue Reading »

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10. A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND IGARRA LANGUAGES

» ABSTRACT This research work is divided into five sections. Section 1 5 and are referred to as Chapters wheel the last part deal with bibliography. The first chapter is background of the study, statement of the problem, statement of hypothesis, purpose of the study, significance of the study and lastly scope and limitation of the topic. The third chapter is concern with Data presentation and ...Continue Reading »

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11. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NUMERIC SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES

» CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction This work is a comparative study of the numeric system of two of the most widely spoken languages not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world as a whole. It is to explain the styles adopted by the speakers of both languages in expressing numeral situations. In the early days of some comparison between languages, some scholars had argued that there was such ...Continue Reading »

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12. WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN NIGERIAN SHORT-MESSAGE SERVICE

» Abstract One of the features of a living language is that it constantly changes with new words finding their way into the vocabulary of the language. Languages’ vocabularies grow from time to time as a result of new innovations that continuously spring up in different sectors of life and human endeavour; one of which is the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), in the recent century. ...Continue Reading »

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13. THE PROBLEM OF TENSES AMONG NIGERIAN SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH

» The Problem of Tenses among Nigerian Speakers of English CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Tenses refer to the form of a verb in English Language that clearly indicates time. We use Tenses to show clear time specification. In this sense, it is seen that without verbs, there will not be Tenses as tense in grammar does not only refer to time but also the action of the verb...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 31 pages | 14,124 engagements |

14. THE IMPACT OF THE NIGERIA CIVIL WAR IN THE LIVES OF TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN

» Introduction War as defined by Webster’s Dictionary “is a state of open and declared, hostile armed conflict between states or nations, or a period of such conflict” This captures a particularly political – rationalistic account of war and warfare, i.e. that war needs to be explicitly declared...Continue Reading »

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15. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LINGUISTIC AND GRAMMATICAL THEORIES

» Abstract This paper attempts to make a discussion of the differences between linguistic and grammatical theories. Although there exist relationships between grammatical theories and linguistic theories in their attitudes towards language, their goals, and their methods, they are both independent of and interacting with each other. 1.0 Introduction At its most fundamental level, a theory is a set o...Continue Reading »

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16. SYNTACTIC INNOVATION PROCESSES IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH

» ABSTRACT This study investigates the syntactic features of Nigerian English which have been created through the following processes – the use of subjectless sentences, reduplication, double subjects, Pidgin influenced structures, discourse particles, verbless sentences, and substitution. It observes that the fact that some features of Nigerian English syntax are shared by other new Englishes ...Continue Reading »

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17. DEICTICS AND STYLISTIC FUNCTION IN J.P CLARK-BEKEDEREMO'S POETRY

» 1. Introduction There is no doubt that J.P. Clark Bekederemo is one of the leading lights of Nigeria’s first generation of writers. This thesis springs from his historicity, the quantity and quality of his literary procreations and the prodigious critical attention and acclaim these works have attracted across the globe. However, unlike other Nigerian writers such as Soyinka and Osundare, the...Continue Reading »

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18. SOCIOLINGUISTIC SITUATION OF NIGERIA: THE BILINGUAL CONDITIONS AMONG NIGERIAN SP...

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Over half the world’s population is bilingual and many people are multilingual. They acquire a number of languages because they need them for different purposes in their everyday interactions. The research had it that most of African nations are multilingual. Nigeria is as well a multilingual nation, with 452 different e...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 16,344 engagements |

19. SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

» Chapter one: Introduction 1.1 Background of Study Community development policies in Nigeria over the years have shown that our policy makers have either not really understood the problems of community, ray. Community developments are deliberately ignoring the problems of community development in Nigeria. Even the nongovernmental organizations (Ngos) that are community focused have somehow ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 10,610 engagements |

20. SMS TEXTING AMONG GSM USERS IN NIGERIA: A MORPHO-SYNTACTIC

» Abstract The gradual shift from the offline to online communication such as text messaging has given way to innovative language short forms whose morph syntactic aspects have permeated the linguistic characters of the texters. For about a decade now, there exist a growing body of research on mobile phone text messaging by linguists but only very few have been done in the area of morpho syntax. ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,898 engagements |

21. PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF SEXUAL HARRASSMENT OF FEMALE STUDENTS BY LECTURERS ...

» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The social vices called sexual harassment is not a new topic to the generality of people today especially in the tertiary institutions such as universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education.As observed by Taiwo and Omole (2014:1) ,the fact is that, “in every human society where there is interaction between oppo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,358 engagements |

22. PRAGMATIC STUDY OF BOVI AND BASKETMOUTH

» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 Preamble This study examines the pragmatics of comedy. Adrian Akmajian conceives of pragmatics as a term that “covers the study of language use, and in particular the study of linguistic communication, in relation to language structure and context of utterance.”(361)When Charles Morris proposed his famous trichotomy of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, he d...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,042 engagements |

23. MUSIC AND REVOLUTION: A STUDY OF FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION What is music? Music a general melody of sounds that unify the mind and soul,not even language differencescan’t stop music fromreaching out to her selected audience, even before recorded history, people created music, whether through drumming, singing or chanting. Some of our strongest emotions may be brought on by listening to a piece of music. In this modern a...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,454 engagements |

24. OIL IN NIGERIAN PROSE FICTION: A STUDY OF HELON HABILA’S OIL ON WATER AND KAIN...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human environment interactions. The modern environmentalist movement as it emerged first in the late nineteenth century and, in its more recent incarnation, in the 1960s, gave rise to a rich array of fictional and nonfictional writings concern...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,306 engagements |

25. A PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOUND SYSTEM OF JABA LANGUAGE

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study This study focuses on describing the sound system of Jaba. The research comes under the purview of phonology which is a branch of language study. Language is a major cultural phenomenon in the human society and therefore, an important regulator of individual consciousness and social interaction. It is vital in human existen...Continue Reading »

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