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Edenowo T. Enang and Festus Uwakwe Ngwoke
This study examines Zebrudaya’s “Special” English syntax as a departure from Standard British English, focusing on patterns of variation, entertainment, and communicative intelligibility. It compares the syntactic structures … Grammar (SFG). CAH facilitates the identification of similarities and differences between Zebrudaya’s “Special” English and Standard British English, while Speech Act Context explains how meaning is derived from linguistic
Usman Abdullahi, Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo, Bernice Nonye Ogbochie, Aminu Saleh and Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi
This study investigates the influence of Gbagyi phonotactic constraints on the pronunciation of English consonant clusters among Gbagyi-English bilinguals in Niger State, Nigeria. Twenty-seven participants were purposively selected … based on native Gbagyi proficiency, English as a second language, regular use of both languages, and absence of reported or observable speech, hearing, or language disorders. The study adopted
Memunat Olayemi Mahmud
This study examines Yoruba-English code-switching as a stylistic and pragmatic resource in contemporary Yoruba praise-and-worship music. Contemporary gospel music remains comparatively under-examined as a site … than being evenly distributed throughout the lyrics. The songs display two broad compositional tendencies: English-anchored hooks set against Yoruba-dominant verses or ad-libs, and Yoruba-anchored refrains containing
Andrew Ikpomwosa Egbah and Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo
Educated Nigerian English functions as a prestige variety, often contrasted with Nigerian Pidgin. Although sociopragmatic research views this distinction as interactionally constructed, cross-status discourse remains underexamined. This study investigates … educated speech” is negotiated in real time through an analysis of the Corpus of English and Nigerian Pidgin Code-switching (CENCOS). Adopting a sociopragmatic orientation, the study uses Teun
Mohammed Sani Ya’u
This article presents a corpus-assisted comparison of visual and auditory perception metaphors in English and Hausa romance fiction. The data come from four English novels containing 520,425 words … twelve Hausa novels containing 521,052 words. AntConc 3.5.7 was used to retrieve the English lemmas see and hear and the Hausa verbs gani and ji. A random sample
Marvelous Damilola Adegbule and Anthony Elisha Anowu
This study investigates semilingualism in relation to linguistic proficiency in Yoruba-English bilinguals. The concept of semilingualism is a contentious issue in Linguistics. The general perception is that people … using the two languages in their repertoire. The study drew data from Yoruba-English undergraduates at Anchor University, Lagos, Nigeria. The researchers used oral interviews to collect data from
AFOLABI, Ayobami Adetoro, AKANO, Richard. Damilare. and Salawu, O. D.
This study investigated the effectiveness of intensive reading instruction in improving vocabulary acquisition and English language use among secondary school students in Osun State, Nigeria. The study adopted a quasi … effective pedagogical strategy for enhancing vocabulary acquisition and improving students’ communicative competence in English. The study recommends that English language teachers regularly incorporate intensive reading activities into classroom practice
Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
This article examines the translation of gendered metaphor in Yoruba – English discourse, focusing on how metaphorical representations of gender are retained, transformed, attenuated, intensified, or reframed in English. The study … while Feminist Translation Theory provides a basis for examining the ideological implications of alternative English representations. The findings indicate that translation is not simply a neutral transfer of proverbial meaning
Ozoemena, Johnkenedy Azubuike, Ngwoke, Festus Uwakwe, Nwokolo, Basil Okwudilichukwu and Okoro, Judith C.
This paper explores the linguistic stylistic devices employed by Helon Habila in
Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu and Ado Mamuda
shaping readers’ cognitive understanding and emotional engagement with the text. Utilizing Yusuf Ali’s English translation of the Quran as the primary data source. The findings indicate that conceptual metaphors