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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 203–223PDF of Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   patterns of rhythmic regularity and deviation shape voice, emphasis, emotional tension, memory, identity, and representations of social experience. The analysis demonstrates that Brooks frequently adapts the rhythms of ordinary speech

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 157–177PDF of Laughing into Compliance: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Humour as A Persuasive Strategy in Selected Nigerian Health Awareness Posters

   Laughing into Compliance: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Humour as A Persuasive Strategy in Selected Nigerian Health Awareness Posters

   Ogechi C. Unachukwu, Amaka G. Nwuche, Regina O. Olinya and and Benice Ogbochie

   study reveals that humour is predominantly subtle and is realized through visual incongruity, metaphorical representation, exaggeration, and playful comparisons. These humorous resources attract attention, simplify health information, and support message

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 48–79PDF of From Objects To Ensembles: Testing A Multimodal Rhetoro-Pragmatic Theory In The Office of A Cultural Historian

   From Objects To Ensembles: Testing A Multimodal Rhetoro-Pragmatic Theory In The Office of A Cultural Historian

   Adegboye ADEYANJU

   selected for detailed analysis. The study examines how cultural artefacts, academic materials, furniture, framed representations, technology, textiles, storage systems, human presence and spatial organisation operate as components of multimodal ensembles

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 1–20PDF of Spatial Mobility and Female Agency in Aiwanose Odafen’s Tomorrow I Become A Woman

   Spatial Mobility and Female Agency in Aiwanose Odafen’s Tomorrow I Become A Woman

   Ugomma Divine Iroakaze and Chiamaka Amalachukwu Ugoka

   deeply constrained by patriarchal structures that regulate movement, identity and self-expression. In literary representations of women’s lives, these spatial restrictions often sustain gendered power relations and limit female

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 21–37PDF of Gender Coloniality: Patriarchy and Feminist Resistance in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

   Gender Coloniality: Patriarchy and Feminist Resistance in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

   Chinasa Abonyi

   persistently debased her female identity. The paper takes an expository look at the representation of patriarchy, the intersection of class, gender and colonial impact. The paper, however, interrogates the patriarchal

6. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 80–103PDF of Negotiating Tradition in a Globalised World: Women, Migration, and Identity in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

   Negotiating Tradition in a Globalised World: Women, Migration, and Identity in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

   Chioma Patricia Onuorah

   interaction of cultural inheritance, migration, race, class, family responsibility, and personal aspiration. Emecheta’s representation therefore remains significant for understanding African women’s transnational experiences and the complex relationship between