Browsing by Author "Nafisat Bolanle Aiyelabegan"

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    A Stylo-Linguistics Analysis of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu "Emi Lokan" Speech
    (Department of Language and Linguistics, Gombe State University, 2025-06) TELLA, Samson Adekunle; Ridwan Akinkunmi RABIU; Nafisat Bolanle Aiyelabegan
    Language plays major role in expressing thought, feeling and winning the audience interest and attention. This is typified in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Èmi ló kàn speech, which automatically changes the political scenario in the ruling party; especially during their party primaries in preparation for 2023 general elections. Data for the study were elicited secondarily online. The speech was downloaded, transcribed and translated. The data were then analysed especially the syntactic aspect within the theoretical framework of Government and Binding Theory (GB). We found out that the speaker uses different communicative strategies intentionally to present the political complication and complexityaroundhispoliticaljourneyinwinninghisaudience.Hethendrewhis apparatus from both the linguistic and stylistic reservoirs. We also observed that President Tinubu uses a common tribal sense to stir up his audience support and see the battle as a we-fight for the entire Yoruba race through what we referred toasacollectivepronominalreference.Finally,weassumethattheentirespeech istheeffectiveuseofthepowerofallusioninstirringupandmotivatingaudience interest.
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    LANGUAGE AS A PRAGMATIC TOOL IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AND ADVERTISING
    (Evangel International Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2025-06-18) Bamigbade, Oluwafemi Emmanuel; Nafisat Bolanle Aiyelabegan; Prisca O. Bob
    Over the past two decades, political advertising in Nigeria has experienced significant growth, driven by political parties' and candidates' increasing recognition of its importance in enhancing their brand visibility and communicating their manifestoes to the electorate. This study undertakes a comprehensive socio-pragmatic examination of the linguistic strategies employed in political campaign billboards and television advertisements across various locations in Nigeria. A diverse sample of billboards, strategically placed in urban, semi-urban, and mega-city settings (Lagos, Ibadan, Osogbo, and Ile-Ife), as well as video clips of rallies, slogans, and internet- sourced materials from the 2011 and 2015 electioneering campaigns, were analyzed. The findings reveal that the structure and complexity of language used in political campaigns serve distinct purposes, with complex sentences providing detailed candidate profiles and sentence fragments enhancing accessibility. Furthermore, the study highlights the pervasive use of emotionally charged language, leveraging positive and negative associations to influence voter perceptions. The research underscores the inherently persuasive nature of political advertising, demonstrating how candidates strategically utilize language to brand themselves and appeal to the electorate.
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    Sentential Negation in Igala Language
    (Department of Lingustics and Foreign Languages Bayero University Kano, 2025-04) Nafisat Bolanle Aiyelabegan
    Being a universal phenomenon, the derivation of negation is productive, in that there are unique ways by which this process is derived cross linguistically thereby showcasing the parametricity as far as our theoretical framework, Principle and Parameter Theory (PPT) is concerned. This uniqueness in its derivation triggers our interest in exploring the syntax of negative constructions in Igala language with a view to identify the main negative markers, their distribution properties and their variants in different sentences in Igala language. Data for the study were elicited from among the Igálà native speakers in Dèkínà Local Government of Kogi State. The data were collected through observation and interview. We made use of KWASU word list, syntactic paradigm with structured sentences. The data were then analysed within the theoretical framework of the Government and Binding Theory (GB) also known as Principles and Parameters Theory (PPT). We observed that Igálà language attests a discontinuous negative morpheme, "high tone...nóò. the two are inseparable in that we can't have high tone alone or nóò alone in Igala negative sentence. We also observed that the other variants of the marker function differently across the difference sentences in Igala language. Finally, negation is a wide syntactic process that cuts across a good number of syntactic processes in syntax such as: double object construction, tense and aspect, serial verbal construction etc.