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Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi, Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo, Usman Abdullahi, Aminu Saleh and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
social media has transformed how internet slang is created, shared, and adapted, making semantic change and cross-cultural linguistic diffusion faster than ever. This study examines how selected internet slang … social media platforms and algorithmic moderation accelerate linguistic innovation by enabling rapid diffusion and semantic reinterpretation. However, mainstream adoption can also obscure expressions' cultural origins and raise concerns about linguistic
Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI
Police and Ige’s Murder,” published on May 15, 2002. Situated within a pragma-semantic perspective, the study investigates how punctuation marks contribute to the organisation of grammatical structures … textual cohesion. The study concludes that punctuation performs not merely orthographic but also grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic functions, enabling the editorial to encode evaluative meanings and guide readers’ inferences. Consequently
Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
Media studies on Niger Delta (Henceforth, ND) conflicts have observed a link
Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.
membership categories, but its meaning and referential scope were subsequently contested through recontextualisation, semantic shift, perspectivisation, evaluative transformation and reappropriation. The analysis further demonstrates that de-othering does not simply
Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye
pragmatic analysis, with insights from Culpeper’s impoliteness formulae and aspects of lexical semantics discourse. Four impoliteness strategies are revealed: negative impoliteness, positive impoliteness, bald on-record impoliteness, and mock