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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 117–135PDF of Stylistic Perspectives on Military Dictatorship in Nigeria in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel Novel

   Stylistic Perspectives on Military Dictatorship in Nigeria in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel Novel

   Ozoemena, Johnkenedy Azubuike, Ngwoke, Festus Uwakwe, Nwokolo, Basil Okwudilichukwu and Okoro, Judith C.

   adopts the theory of New Historicism as its framework and Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar as a grammatical model to examine the influence of language choice on meaning … unprecedented military era in the 1980s and late 1990s. The study uses Systemic Functional Grammar for meaning-making and to show the three meta-functions of language: ideational, interpersonal

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 22–44PDF of The Use of Lamentation as Discursive Construction of Insecurity and Economic Crises in Opposition Manifestoes in Nigeria

   The Use of Lamentation as Discursive Construction of Insecurity and Economic Crises in Opposition Manifestoes in Nigeria

   Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni

   were analysed based on a fusion of M.A.K. Halliday’s ideational metafunction of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Teun A. van Dijk’s triangular model of Critical Discourse Analysis

3. 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

   anchored in the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH), Speech Act Context, and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). CAH facilitates the identification of similarities and differences between Zebrudaya’s “Special” English