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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 381–403PDF of Zebrudaya's “Special” English Syntax as a Departure from Standard British English: Entertainment and Communicative Intelligibility

   Zebrudaya's “Special” English Syntax as a Departure from Standard British English: Entertainment and Communicative Intelligibility

   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

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 80–93PDF of Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Henrietta Ifeoma Okafor and Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze

   heterosexual love in times of war, and that is Okparanta’s point of departure as she makes a case for the lesbian love that exists between two girls, Ijeoma

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 86–104PDF of Maxim Flouting in Child Discourse: A Developmental and Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Naturalistic Interaction

   Maxim Flouting in Child Discourse: A Developmental and Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Naturalistic Interaction

   Munachi Frances Agorua, Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo, Aminu Saleh, Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi, Bernice Nonye Ogbochie and Usman Abdullahi

   This study examines maxim flouting in naturally occurring child discourse and explores how apparent departures from conversational norms remain meaningful in interaction. Guided by Grice’s Cooperative Principle and Relevance