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Awe, I B
construction of sporting narratives and evaluative positions. The study adopts a qualitative stylistic research design. A corpus of 100 stylistic expressions was identified from five online sports platforms: Complete Sports … purposively selected for detailed analysis. The data were analysed through qualitative content analysis and stylistic analysis, with Appraisal Theory providing the principal framework for interpreting evaluative meaning. The findings indicate
Christian Onah and Emmanuel Jibb Adams
This study applies Critical Stylistics to Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to examine how the linguistic choices of both authors construct and communicate ideologies … indices of intended meaning, and to illustrate how dialogue contributes thematic depth and stylistic distinctiveness to the two narratives. A descriptive, textual-analytic design was adopted, with data purposively sampled
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 Waiting for an Angel to depict the era of military dictatorship in Nigeria. The study adopts the theory
Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
impression created on the participants in the conflict discourse. This paper investigates how stylistic forms are utilised by Nigerian media for ideological mediation while conveying information on the conflict news … four regional (The Tide, The Pointer, New Waves, and Pioneer) newspapers, and subjected to stylistic and critical analyses, with insights from critical stylistics and aspects of the functional approach
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 … study argues that Yoruba-English code-switching in the selected corpus is a patterned stylistic practice through which gospel performers negotiate congregational participation, intimacy, indigenous theological specificity, and wider Christian
Chidi Nwankwo, Justus Chidi Ugwu and Chuka Ononye
Linguistic studies on media representation of ND conflicts have utilised pragmatic, discourse analytical, and stylistic tools in exploring the contexts of participants’ engagement in the discourse, and the ideology … stylistics of media reporting; but little is known about how media framing is employed in representing participants. The paper examines the discursive frames, linguistic forms, and ideologies that mark
Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu and Ado Mamuda
primary data source. The findings indicate that conceptual metaphors are not merely stylistic devices but function as fundamental mechanisms of cognition that enhance comprehension and interpretation of Quranic teachings. This
Adaobi Constance Muonagor and Rhema F. E. Oguche
close reading of both poems, the paper interrogates how Ojaide uses satire as a stylistic and ideological weapon to critique the failures of postcolonial African leadership, particularly in the Nigerian
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Chinasa Abonyi, Henrietta Okafor and Chilaka, Chiamaka Perpetual
activities. While previous studies of the text have examined its Marxist, mythological, linguistic and stylistic dimensions, this study focuses on the relationship between individual motivations and dysfunctional social structures. Anchored