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Olusegun J. Omoboye and Samuel. A. Akinwotu
Rapport Management theories, the research explores the discourse strategies and linguistic markers of affectivity and rapport in online consultative encounters in Nigeria. Out of forty-six posts collected from … twenty-four were purposively selected for analysis. Findings reveal that Nigerian pregnant mothers convey affectivity and rapport through greetings, auto-referentiality, attention-captivating expressions and they employ linguistic markers
Aminu Saleh, Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi, Usman Abdullahi, Bernice Nonye Ogbochie and Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo
This study examines how Hausa dominance affects the vitality and maintenance of Tangale and Fulfulde in Gombe State, North-Eastern Nigeria. Although the state is linguistically diverse, Hausa increasingly serves
Olakiitan Abolanle Oladipupo, Chidinma Deborah Ogbuonye and Ezinwanyi E. Adam
self-responsibility, but they can also expose institutional failure, challenge credibility, and create affective forms of everyday resistance. The article therefore offers a culturally situated account of how decoding becomes
Jaafar Ahmad Wakili and Maryam Sani Babayo
containing 243 emojis and 126 stickers. The findings show that emojis and stickers perform affective, pragmatic, interpersonal, humorous, and identity-related functions, extending and sometimes substituting for verbal messages. While
Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye
unpalatable questions, presuppositions, condescension, silencers, and indirect threats, operating primarily through both coercive and affective impoliteness, alongside entertaining impoliteness deployed for majoritarian triumphalism. Crucially, the study’s primary contribution