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): Ecopoetics and contemporary Nigerian poetry: A study of Bassey’s We Thought it was Oil but it was Blood
(Gombe Papers on Nigerian Literature (GOPANLI): A Journal of the Department of English, Gombe State University, 2011) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Constraints to womanhood in northern Nigeria: A feminist reading of Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina
(Kraft Books, 2012) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Aesthetics of place in contemporary Nigerian poetry: An ecocritical reading of Joe Ushie’s Hill Songs
(Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JSLN), 2013) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
A Pragmatic Study of Yoruba Proverbs in English
(International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning, 2014) Abiodun Jombadi & Juliana Jombadi
Ecocritical analysis of Ifowodo’s the oil lamp
(The Springboard Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Al-Hikmah University, 2014) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Social mediation in Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo
(A Publication of the Department of English and Literary Studies, Bayero University, Kano, 2015) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
A Pragmatic Analysis of Proverbs in Selected Works of Ola Rotimi
(Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 2016) Moshood Zakariyah
Environmental sustainability: African womanist response in Ojaide’s The Activist
(Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 2016) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Driving Entrepreneurial Acumen through Language Resourcefulness: A Speech Acts Analysis of Selected Radio Jingles in Pidgin
(2016) Abiodun Jombadi; Ruth Jacob; Sunokpera Abdul
The fact that advertisement serves as a vital component of entrepreneurial exertions remains indubitable. Consequently, the role of language in driving an effective process of advertising informs this research. The paper aims at analyzing some radio jingles in pidgin, using J.L. Austin’s Speech Acts Theory with the intent of explaining the role of utterances in arresting the attention of the target audience. Speech Acts, as a theory, explains the roles of utterances in shaping the attitudes of participants in interpersonal communication. It reflects the intentions of the speaker and the effects the speaker’s expressions have on the hearer. Radio jingles are not cool, reasoned pose, but deeply emotional works that use wrenching language, dramatic exaggeration and figurative speech. The selected jingles, collected from the electronic media (radio), all of which were done in Pidgin, were transcribed and analyzed for the purpose of this paper, using the quantitative method of analysis. It is revealed in the findings that Pidgin, based on its perceived popularity particularly in the business environment and in Nigeria as a whole, is a resourceful ally to entrepreneurial avenues for promoting goods and services through advertisements as Pidgin advertisements reflect some characteristics of the general Nigerian speech community in their forms like code-switching, etc. The paper concludes that since target audience of an advert in Pidgin is incredibly large, advertisers can take advantage of the creativity embedded in Pidgin due to its numerous lexico-semantic process.
Style and National Integration: An Analysis of President Muhammadu Buhari's Post 2015 Presidential Election Speech
(The Achievers' Journal, 2017) Abiodun Jombadi & Moshood Zakariyah
Re-Reading Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in the Context of African Environmentalism
(Journal of Studies in the English Language, 12(2), 26–44, Thamassat University, Thailand, 2017) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
The Niger-Delta and Commitment: An Ecocritical Analysis of Nnimmo Bassey's We Though it was Oil but it was Blood and Albert Otto's Letters from the Earth
(Journal of Arts, Anambra State University, 2017) Saeedat Bolajoko
A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF PHOTO NEWS REPORTS ON THE ABDUCTED CHIBOK GIRLS IN NIGERIA
(ills, 2017) Ibrahim Omolabi & Muhideen Durosinmi Ola
The use of news photos is becoming very prominent because it is capable of presenting the news story or situation live and able to generate diverse interpretations. The study explores the various pragmatic acts performed in visual news reports on the abducted Chibok girls in Nigeria, especially the construction of acts or meaning through visual codes. The study drew insight from Mey (2001) aspects of Pragmatic acts and Hoye and Kaiser’s (2007) visual acts as the theoretical framework underpinning the study. A total of eight (8) visual news reports relating to the stories of the abducted Chibok girls were purposively selected from two Nigerian newspapers (Guardian & Dailytrust) and analysed from the points of pragmatic acts and visual acts theories. The study revealed that pictures are capable of performing many of the same complex pragmatic acts of urging, indicating, condemning, accusing, protesting, challenging, wearing, shaming which are often suggested in the picture captions. The study also revealed that visual representation in Nigerian newspaper is far from being straightforward. It goes beyond choosing and placing specific photographs forgetting readers’ attention, or for authenticating verbal reports. Some pragmatic acts are craftily performed through the pictures and they are meant to surreptitiously control readers’ evaluation, opinion and action about the news report on the abducted Chibok girls.
A Comparative Analysis of Muhmmadu Buhari and Alexander Boris Johnson’s Appreciation and Sensitisation Speeches on Coronavirus Pandemic
(University of Lagos Press, 2017) Abdul Sunokpera
This paper examines the discourse of coronavirus pandemic by appraising the appreciation and sensitisation speeches of the British Prime Minister and the president of Nigeria. The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic triggered the production of different types of texts as discourses from different parts of the world. The majority of these discourses seek to proffer solution to the global pandemic. The appreciation and sensitisation speeches of Alexander Boris Johnson and that of Muhammadu Buhari are no exception. The two speeches were divided into eight texts and analysed using a Functional-Semiotic Discourse Analysis as applied by Daramola (2008) and Appraisal Theory as theoretical underpinnings. After the analysis of semiotic and appraisal resources in the two speeches using the two linguistic theories, it was concluded that different linguistic resources drawn from different sources by different speakers could be deployed to perform different communicative functions in order to achieve the same communicative ends.
Discourse Space Theory and Conceptual Metaphor in Muhammadu Buhari`s Inaugural Speech
(University Of Lagos Press, 2017) Abdul Sunokpera
In the last few decades, researchers especially in the humanities and social sciences have directed a renewed and undivided attention so to speak to the field of political communication and/or political discourse. This renewed effort has produced avalanche of literature in political discourse which has in turn attracted the interest of both political and discourse analysts in this direction. Political discourse is hydra-headed as it embraces several other sub-genres such as political debates, political broadcast interviews, political rallies parliamentary sessions, presidential inaugurals among others. Researches on presidential inaugurals have grown enormously in the recent times. This unprecedented growth may not be unconnected with the democratisation process as a new world order .It is today a common practice for democratically elected presidents or military juntas in dictatorial regimes especially in the third world countries to deliver an inaugural speech immediately following their swearing the oath of office. In the course of this exercise, the political actors draw certain rhetorical devices to service in order to manipulate and convince the citizenry about their dedication and commitment to serve them. This paper therefore seeks to situate Discourse Space Theory and Conceptual Metaphor in the inaugural speech of Muhammadu Buhari. Using these two theoretical models, we shall be better placed to encapsulate how political actors use language in both its literal and literary senses to shape discourse and by extension reconstitute certain values among the citizenry.
A Content Analytical Study of Healthy Lifestyle Promotion in Selected Newspapers in Nigeria
(Faculty of Social Sciences, Kogi State University, Anyigba, 2018) Obaje, A. A.; Okpanachi, A. R.; Umeaku, P. C.
Against the backdrop of an ever-increasing mortality rate in Nigeria due to mismanaged health lifestyles, this paper interrogates the role of the Nigerian Newspapers in the publication and promotion of healthy lifestyles. Cognizant of the necessary role the mass media plays in the diffusion of knowledge, the paper seeks to determine the extent to which Nigerian Newspapers discuss healthy lifestyle for the prevention of diseases. From a content analysis of four national newspapers, the paper finds out that the Nigerian print media is constructively contributing to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle in its content.
Analysis of Linguistic Features in Graffitis of the Kwara State University Students
(Federal University Lokoja Press, 2018) Abiodun Jombadi
The work studied the thematic concerns of graffiti sourced from the campus of Kwara State University in Malete. The data were analysed within the framework offered by Fairclough's post-structuralist model of Discourse Analysis. The data, which were qualitatively analysed, were randomly drawn from messages on walls, classrooms, corridors, toilets, and hostels of the University. Data were qualitatively analysed. Findings revealed eleven major thematic concerns of these graffiti, namely, personal history, politics, imperative actions, business, requests, personal feelings, love and relationship, personal philosophy, personal reflection, sports, personal judgement and sentiment. Graffiti communicative strategies were identified as coinage, alphabetism, metaphor, pun, slang, code-mixing and pidgin. All these subsumed under three major categories as morphological devices, rhetorical devices and sociolinguistic devices. The paper concluded that the present study is vital in understanding how graffiti culture is expressed within the Kwara State University's domain.
Globalisation and neo-colonialism: political activism in Ibiwari Ikiriko’s oily tears of the Delta
(ACU Journal of Humanities, 2018) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Rhetorical anthropomorphism in selected Niger Delta poetry
(Alore: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, 2018) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
EFFECTIVE WRITING SKILLS: GENERAL AND SPECIFIC STRATEGIES
(Kwara State University Press, 2018) Sunokpera Abdul
The focus of this chapter is to discuss how one can write effectively. Writing as a skill of language is crucial not only to the academic but also to other people in various professions. Because of the importance of the written medium as a means of communication, the need therefore arises for teaching the various ways and strategies by which writing can be effectively actualised. It is difficult and almost impossible to write effectively without the basic knowledge of the principles guiding effective writing. Effective writing is that which explicates exactly what the writer wishes to say in a clear and understandable language. Ineffective writing on the other hand is clumsy and distracts the reader’s attention

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