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1. FACTS AND FICTION IN AKACHI ADIMORA – EZEIGBO’S CHILDREN OF THE EAGLE AND TH...
» ABSTRACT This research work addressed itself to the way people tend to see fictional works. People see fictional works as being fictitious, but they are over laid with fact. This long essay, using Akachi Adimora. Ezeigbo’s works as guide, demonstrated the impact of the intermeddling of fact with fiction in literary works. They do not always obstruct each other and when harnessed depending on the...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,526 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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2. EMERGENT TRADITION AND THE AFRICAN POETRY, A CASE STUDY OF TANURE OJAIDE’S THE...
» ABSTRACT This work looks into the themes and central ideas of emergent tradition and the African poetry. It aims at examining the message of Ojaide’s as on emergent writer and his opinion about political themes and cultural themes in relation to literary tradition in African poetry. Used in this research work is the writer’s realist ideas, background, experience and the themes preoccupying...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,167 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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3. CULTURE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHE...
» ABSTRACT Over the years, the major challenge facing the female folk is discrimination and unfair treatment in the society. This work discusses cultural practices that discriminate against women. This research work is a critical analysis of two African novels: Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of motherhood, and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. For secondary sources, materials were got from the...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 10,371 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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4. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF OLA ROTIMI”S OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN
» ABSTRACT Analysis on a discourse level has been used in the analysis of texts, but this study attempts to carry out a Critical Discourse Analysis of Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again. The Norman Fairclough theory has been applied in this approach, paying more attention on the socio cultural and political issues in the text. The text, is a social drama which the author has used to ex...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,647 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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5. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA’S INAUGURATION SPEECH (...
» ABSTRACT This research work examined the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as enshrined in his inaugural address. The analysis is grounded on Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in Critical Discourse Analysis, claiming that ideologies reside in texts that it is not possible to remove or ignore ideologies from texts and that texts are open to diverse interpretations. The se...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,855 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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6. CONFLICT BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN CULTURE (A CASE STUDY OF SOYINKA’S DE...
» ABSTRACT Conflict is a disagreement or clash between people, ideas; or in the case of our study, cultures. Therefore, culture becomes a unique and sentimental phenomenon that is not only cherished but also protected dearly by an individual as well. Thus, a literature has become the means through which cultural sentiments are projected and expressed. For a long time, Africans in particular, have be...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,093 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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7. CODE MIXING AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MEDIUM IN SOME SELECTED SONGS IN THE NIGERIAN M...
» ABSTRACT Language plays an important role in the society and this leads to the study of code mixing in relation to sociolinguistics and how code mixed utterances have been triggered as a result of language gap, stylistic motivations, domains, societal factors, message intrinsic factors, physical settings and situational factors. This work examined how these motivations have resulted in code mixed ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,166 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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» ABSTRACT The Concept of Class struggle describes the constant conflict among the existing strata in every society. The purpose of this academic research is to explore the meaning and important of class struggle in the context of the selected texts. The theoretical framework for this research is the Marxist Leninist theory, which could be simply summarized as the reaction of the exploited to get ri...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,306 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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9. CLASS STRATIFICATION, POVERTY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE (A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FESTU...
» ABSTRACT This study is set out to analysis the issues of poverty, class stratification and social injustice in Olu Obafemi’s Wheels and Festus Iyayi’s Violence. The purpose is to enlighten Africans on the need to fight against all forms of social injustice. The Marxist theory is adopted for the analysis of this study. The result is that the quest for a classless society is the only way for ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,098 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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10. CHARACTERS AND JOURNEY IN AMOS TUTUOLA’S THE PALM WINE DRINKARD AND GABRIEL AJ...
» ABSTRACT This project work deals with a critical analysis of characters and their journey using the novels of Amos Tutuola’s The Palm wine Drinkard and Gabriel A. Ajadi’s The Forest of God annotated translation of D. O. Fagunwa’s Igbo Olodumare. This study tends to explore man and his adventurous life as a result of his quest. Sociological approach was adopted in this study to show that ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,848 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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11. ART AND POLITICS IN WOLE SOYINKA’S THE BEATIFICATION OF AREA BOY AND OLA ROTIM...
» ABSTRACT This study has been able to show how Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi have treated politics artistically in their various texts. This study aims at examining the adventure of the military into politics and the playwrights have shown how unaccomplished the military has been in their governance. In the study, we have seen that art and politics go hand in hand and the two are inseparable. At the ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,898 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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12. AFRICANISM THEME, AND TECHNIQUE IN AMOS TUTUOLA’S THE PALMWINE DRINKARD
» ABSTRACT This project work deals with a critical evaluation of Africanism in relation to theme and techniques of Amos Tutuola’s novel – THE PALMWINE DRINKARD. This study tends to examine the important of African culture and promotion of its cultural heritage which was bastardized by the colonial masters during colonization. In the course of this essay, chapter one will deals with intro...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 12,855 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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13. AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE IN TANURE OJAIDE’S THE ACTIVIST AND HELON HABILA’S ...
» ABSTRACT Since Nigeria’s political independence in 1960, ensuring administrations have virtually towed the path of devastation. How have Tanure Ojaide and Helon Habila been able to portray the aesthetics of resistance in The Activist and Waiting for an Angel respectively using the New Historicism theory. The authors through various characters and events have been able...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,123 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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14. AESTHETIC OF AFRICANISM IN CAMARA LAYE’S THE AFRICAN CHILD AND THE RADIANCE OF...
» ABSTRACT It was obviously vital that African should be treated for culture preservation. This research attempted the exposition of Camara Laye’s The African Child and The Radiance of the King with a view to appreciate the African Aesthetics in the novels. Formalism approach is used to critically study the aesthetics in the selected African novels and we made wide consultation of books on A...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,607 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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15. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED POEMS OF WOLE SOYINKA
» ABSTRACT Language and style never moves beyond a concentration on the supremacy of words. These words somehow contain meanings style is effectively language manipulated in ways that signal it as different from ‘ordinary’ language. A stylistic analysis of the selection of some Wole Soyinka’s poems is carried out to educate, explicate and expose to everybody that comes across this write up, in...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 12,344 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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16. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
» ABSTRACT Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic and literary perspectives. This work was done to examine the basic linguistic features that have been used by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in The Thing Around Your Neck to pass some messages across to the readers and the society. A functional approach was adopted, an approach where particular note is taken of the stylistic ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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17. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO’S TRAFFICKED
» ABSTRACT Stylistics is the study of literary and non literary texts using linguistic and literary descriptions. The aim in this research work was a stylistic analysis of Akachi adimora ezeigbo’s Trafficked. The study critically analysed the data through the use of some levels of stylistic description namely; graphology, morphology, syntax, lexico semantics and cohesi...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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18. A SOCIO-LINGUISTIC STUDY OF CODE-MIXING AND CODE-SWITCHING IN NIGERIAN INSTITUTI...
» ABSTRACT For communication to be effective in any human society, the appropriate language must be put in to use in the appropriate context. This work examined the motivation for code mixing and code switching among undergraduates. The natural conversations of some undergraduates of the University of Ilorin were recorded, and analysed and it was found that code switching is a display of bilinguals�...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,815 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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19. A PRAMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CARTOONS FROM NIGERIAN DAILIES THE ‘GUARDIAN, ...
» ABSTRACT This work investigates how meaning is derived in an utterance through cartoons. It aimed at a pragmatic analysis of selected cartoons from these Nigerian dailies: The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation, in order to know the different functions of language in relation to context using Participants, Implicature, Inference, Presupposition, Intention, World Knowledge, Mutual Contextual Be...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,693 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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20. A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS: AN EXAMPLE OF “EFE AND JUDE”
» ABSTRACT In this study, we undertook a pragmatic study of newspaper comic strips, using “Efe and Jude” as an example. Pragmatics deals mainly with the use of language by a speaker and how the meaning can be interpreted by the hearer. The aim of this research work was to examine the use of language used by Efe and Jude and to explain what was not said by the participants. This research used the...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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21. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SLANG AND CATCHY PHRASES USED IN SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN ...
» ABSTRACT Slangy expressions and catchy phrases are deliberately used in hip hop songs in order to reduce the degree of vulgarity in the content of the song so as not to disrupt society moral norms, and to increase the rate of acceptability of such song amidst listeners, to avoid direct stating of the name of the referent (s) in a satirical song for instance, and also for singers to create a landma...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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22. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CARTOONS IN VANGUARD NEWSPAPER
» ABSTRACT Artists, especially, cartoonists have made vigorous effort to portray the society by familiarizing people with the on going events in such society. This work aimed at investigating how pragmatic elements could be deployed to properly interpret the ways in which cartoons and their utterances depict and satirize socio political realities in Nigeria. In this regard, s...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 1 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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23. A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD
» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Introduction This chapter introduces the background of the research topic and describes its scope in addition, the purpose and justification for the study are also discussed. It concludes by giving the biography of the author of the text. 1.1 Background to the study Man is the most superior and unique of all the creatures in the entire creation, in term...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 1 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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24. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL INTERVIEWS IN A SELECTED DAILY NEWSPAPER (THE ...
» ABSTRACT Language is an integral part of our socio cultural heritage that serves as the primary medium of communication for mankind. Pragmatics evolved to drill out meanings and to give interpretations to utterances beyond what is literarily said. This research work was carried out in order to give light to political interviews and to bring out meanings that are embedded in utterances made by poli...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 1 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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25. ''CORRUPTION” IN THE NOVELS OF ADAOBI NWAUBANI TRICIA’S I DO NOT COME TO YOU...
» Abstract Corruption has long been harmful and dangerous to the development of Nigeria systems. This study therefore, sheds light on the scourge of materialism and relevant institutions. The sociological theory, which supports investigation unto the function of systems in the society, has been deployed in this study. One of the findings of the research is that, social systems, presently, malfunctio...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,834 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials