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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

   poems participates in the production of these meanings. This study examines rhythm as a formal principle in selected poems by Brooks, arguing that rhythm is not merely a sonic embellishment … active element in the construction of poetic meaning. Drawing on literary Formalism and close textual analysis, the study investigates the effects of repetition, stress, pause, lineation, syntax, rhyme, and rhythmic

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 45–69PDF of Discursive Representation of Social Actors in the 2025 Federal High Court Ruling on

   Discursive Representation of Social Actors in the 2025 Federal High Court Ruling on

   Emmanuel Ogbonna Okoro

   group social actors negatively. These discursives embed anti-separatism, moral righteousness, legal formalism, national security, state legitimacy, and judicial authority ideologies to construct the decisions of the court as legal

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 198–215PDF of Securitizing Public Vigilance: A Pragmatic and Critical Discourse Analysis of the Nigeria Police Force’s Press Release on Internal Security and Violent Crimes

   Securitizing Public Vigilance: A Pragmatic and Critical Discourse Analysis of the Nigeria Police Force’s Press Release on Internal Security and Violent Crimes

   Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI

   Analysis model and securitization theory (Balzacq, 2005; Buzan et al., 1998) provide the two formal frameworks. Pragmatic speech-act functions are used only as a supporting descriptive lens. The analysis

4. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 442–462PDF of Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   largely focused on Caribbean history, African cultural memory, colonialism, diaspora, nation language, rhythm, and formal experimentation. However, the relationship between psychological experience and bodily expression in the two writers' poetry

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 168–187PDF of Environmental Destruction as a Colonial Residue in Nnimmo Bassey’s I Will Not Dance to Your Beat and Richard Inya’s Katakata

   Environmental Destruction as a Colonial Residue in Nnimmo Bassey’s I Will Not Dance to Your Beat and Richard Inya’s Katakata

   Fater VANGER and Chika O. OSE-AGBO

   environment has continued as a colonial residue, with natural elements constantly destroyed decades after formal colonialism ended. Postcolonial writers, particularly Eco-poets, have foregrounded environmental destruction