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    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.
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    A Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Interview in Nigerian News Media
    (Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies, 2023-05-23) Aliyu Uthman Abdulkadir
    Several studies have been carried out on political discourse using different linguistic approaches of Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Stylistics as well as implicature. However, little attention has been given to the blend of Critical Discourse Analysis and rhetoric as a means to unravel different ideological stances in political discourse. Thus, this paper investigated how ideological beliefs of individuals or groups were conveyed through linguistic expressions to manipulate those of others in political interviews of Nigerian politicians. A total of two (2) interviews conducted by Channels Television were randomly selected. The data for the study were video files downloaded from the official YouTube page of the Channel Tv station and were transcribed so as to draw out relevant extracts. van Dijk’s 2006 socio cognitive aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis and rhetoric were used as its theoretical framework. Findings revealed that ideology is an individual’s perception or experience of the world. It also revealed that the interviewees in the selected interviews deployed language as a strategy of domination and supremacy by exploiting lexical items and strong imperatives which allow them to impose their views on others. Commonly, it was found that they created asymmetrical power relations of privileged ‘we’, ‘us’ and less privileged ‘they’, ‘them’ through positive self-presentation of us and negative other presentation of them. It was also revealed that certain rhetorical and ideological strategies such as actor description, polarisation, burden, categorisation, comparison, consensus, populism, vagueness and appeal to emotions among others present in the selected political interviews are implicitly used to project different ideological positions of the politicians. Keywords: Critical discourse, Ideology, Politics, Power, Political interview Biographical notes: Aliyu Uthman Abdulkadir holds a Masters Degree in English Language from Kwara State University, Malete. He is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria.
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    A Critical Discourse Analysis of Radio Biafra's Hate Speeches on Facebook
    (Lagos Papers in English Studies, 2022) Abiodun Jombadi
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    A Generative Phonological Approach to the Analysis of Selected Undergraduates’ Utterances
    (2022) Amirah Abidemi Affinih; Mariam Titilope Olugbodi
    Language variation isfacilitated by language contacts .Nigerian Scholars have over the years embarked on the description ofthe taxonomy ofNigerian English atthe level ofphonology and three major varieties have been identified by scholars over the years—the yet to be codified acrolect ,the Standard Nigerian English (SNE);themesolect,which isthe intermediate variety,Popular Nigerian English (PNE)thebasilect,andNigerianPidginEnglish (NPE),whichisthesubstrate variety.Theaim ofthisstudy isto identify the phonological features ofNigerian English inselected undergraduates ’ utterances.Particularly ,the study sets out toinvestigate whether the university undergraduates are representatives of the acrolect or mesolect based on their level of educational attainment .The utterances of ten (10) 400 level undergraduates ofKwara State University were analysed using a juxtapositional approach.Fifty randomly selectedwordsfromtheutteranceswereanalysed using the Distinctive Feature Approach .The study revealed that most ofthe deviant phonemes are syllabic in nature because they aremostly vowels.Also,there are instances ofsubstitution oftheSNEdiphthongs withtheSpeakers’VarietySVmonophthongsasaresultofthedisparitiesinthephonemiccomponentsof the SNE and the speakers ’first language .The study concluded that the attainment of the SNE in the Nigerian context isfeasible ifthe codification ofthe SNE can beattained toaid the syllabus design for Englishlanguagepedagogyinanon-nativecontextasNigeria.
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    A Pragma-Stylistic Exploration of Selected Sign-Out T-shirt Inscriptions
    (Issues in Language and Literary Studies, 2022) Moshood Zakariyah
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    A Pragmatic Analysis of Proverbs in Selected Works of Ola Rotimi
    (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 2016) Moshood Zakariyah
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    A Pragmatic Study of Yoruba Proverbs in English
    (International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning, 2014) Abiodun Jombadi & Juliana Jombadi
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    A Study of Proverbs and Gender Perspectives in Olu Obafemi's Pestle on the Mortar
    (National Theater Alpha Crownes Publishing Limited and the Department of English University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2021) Moshood Zakariyah
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    An Analysis of the Phonological features of selected three year-old pupils' Speech
    (The Nexus, 2021-12) Alabi, T. A.; Gobir Mariam Titilope
    This study focuses on the assessment of the performance of selected three-year-old pupils from the clinical phonological perspective. Also, it is believed that the linguistic repertoire of children of age three constitutes their linguistic manifestation which is based on their developmental characteristics. As a result, this study aimed to identify, describe, and analyse the phonetic features of language manifestations in children of age three to examine whether the social variable of gender, physiological characteristics and cognitive features have a significant impact on the interlanguage of selected kindergarten pupils.
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    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.
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    Demystifying the Labyrinth of the Delta: An Eco-linguistic Analysis of Selected Poems of Tanure Ojaide
    (Journal of English Language and Literature, 2024) Mariam Titilope Olugbodi; Moshood Zakariyah
    Ecological issues in the context of Niger-Delta, Nigeria have been approached mostly from the perspective of environmental degradation, and marginalisation in previous studies. However, in literary pieces, which are mostly the dominant objects of analysis in those studies, there are underlying linguistic imports, which are reflexive of the beauty of the literary discourses revolving around the Niger￾Delta environment. It is based on this backdrop that this study sets out to examine selected poems of Tanure Ojaide from an ecolinguistic perspective. To achieve the aim of the study, five poems are selected purposively from Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and analysed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data analysis. The data is also examined using the Eco-critical Discourse Analysis (EDA) approach. The findings from the study reveal the use of rhetorical devices to converge towards emphasising the beauty of the ecological characteristics of the physical environment. The use of imagery by the poet draws on readers’ socio-cognitive instincts towards the appealing to their emotive senses. In conclusion, the use of the eco-linguistic approach to examine the poems has not only revealed the poet’s intents but has also demystified the myth behind the ecosystem of the Niger Delta.
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    Politeness and Facework in United States Presidential Debates
    (Ibbul Academic Publisher, 2021) Abiodun Jombadi & Aliyu Uthman Abdulkadir
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    Spectrographic Analysis of Articulatory Variations in the Vocalisations of Selected Nigerian Newscasters
    (Journal of Linguistics & Literature, 2023) Mariam Titilope Olugbodi
    Since the 20th century, with the launch of natural language processing software, such as the Praat software in 1995, speech analysis has transcended subjective interpretations to scientific evaluations. This study aimed to carry out a spectrographic analysis of articulatory variations in the vocalizations of selected Nigerian Newscasters using the application of the Praat software. More importantly, the articulatory variations traceable in the vocalizations of the newscasters that are indicative of hyperarticulations and hyper￾articulations are examined. Ten (10) words were selected from a corpus of spoken texts collected through the survey method— the interview of selected Nigerian newscasters. From the data analysis, it was found that hyperarticulations are marked by phonemic substitution, /r/ intrusion, and vowel length elongation while a lack of pitch variation, phonemic reduction, and syllabic reduction indicates hypoarticulations. Also, it has been found that both hyperarticulations and hyper-articulations are reflections of the attitudes of the studied newscasters as second-language speakers of English towards the attainment of proficiency in the standard variety. Not only attitude but also variations impact on other cognitive and social factors that are manifestations of the sociolinguistic realities of the studied context.
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    Stance evaluation and politics of language: an appraisal analysis of President Muhammadu Buhari's speeches on Covid-19 pandemic
    (International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 2022) Abiodun Jombadi
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    Style and National Integration: An Analysis of President Muhammadu Buhari's Post 2015 Presidential Election Speech
    (The Achievers' Journal, 2017) Abiodun Jombadi & Moshood Zakariyah