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    A Clinical Approach to the Analysis of Selected Three-Year-Old Pupils' Renditions
    (All Nations University Journal of Applied Thoughts, 2021-05-10) Gobir, M.T.
    Sound perception is pivotal to language acquisition and usage, and it is the bedrock for the display of linguistic knowledge in every individual. However, misperception of sounds and sound production anomalies can be language-based or cognitive oriented. The aim of this study was to assess the utterances of selected three-year-old pupils from a clinical perspective. The study basically adopts a survey research approach. Using the purposive sampling technique and the participatory observation method, twenty utterances of kindergarten pupils were recorded, transcribed and analysed both perceptually and acoustically. This study adapted a blend of the clinical phonological and clinical psycholinguistic approaches for the analysis of the selected pupils’ utterances. The results of the assessment were that even though speech disturbance characterise the language of the pupils, gender difference plays a role in cognitive and linguistic development. The female pupils are found to be less deficient than their male counterparts as their word-realisations are more appropriate and correspond more with the superstrate transcriptions. Also, in spite of the differences in the cognitive abilities of the pupils, they unconsciously adopt simplification procedures to cover up their speech deficiencies. It has been recommended that teachers have a key role to play to facilitate learning by both genders of learners in the classroom by varying their teaching methods and selecting instructional materials carefully.
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    Graphological deviations in selected small and medium-scale enterprise adverts
    (2020-07-07) Agunbiade, S.; Jombadi, A.; Gobir, M.T.
    It is an established fact that stylistics focuses on the preponderant use of language in series of texts and the unusualness in language to communicate specific messages to the readers of the texts. The purpose of this study was to exclusively investigate selected signboards of small and medium-scale enterprises from a stylistic perspective. Thirty signboards were selected and analysed at the graphological level. Photographs of the selected signboards were taken and transformed into prints for ease of interpretation. It was discovered that there were graphological deviations such as punctuations, varying fonts and sizes, mixed cases, colour, number, etc. usedto captivate the attention of prospective customers; to indicate the choice of the advertisers; to distinguish one enterprise from the other; and to list the services offered by the enterprise. The use of stylistics as an approach for the analysis of the selected signboards has unravelled the underlying meaning of the graphological features in the data.
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    A conversation with poet-scholar and administrator: AbdulRasheed Na’Allah
    (Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JSLN), 2019) Aliyu Saeedat B.
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    The place of memory and the memory of place in Tanure Ojaide’s diasporic poems
    (Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2024) Aliyu Saeedat B.
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    ASTYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED DSTV ADVERTISEMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
    (2023) Babagogata Haruna Alhaji
    DSTV advertisements are a form of visual advertisement that communicatesmessages, desires, ideas, and intentions.Thus, this study aimsatvarious ways in whichadvertisers use language and style to communicate their customers and how various products are regularly on display to get customers attention thus amountingto sales in the long run. To achieve this, a total of five (5) DSTV advertisements were purposively selectedvia internet. The paperadopts stylistic features to examine how language and styles are adopted in the DSTV advertisements hub. It was discovered that bold print and capitalisation, images and colours were predominantly used at the graphological level which served as a means of catching audience attention, brand identity and enhancing readability. Likewise at the phonological level, alliteration, assonance and consonance were the predominant phonological features used in the analysed data which funclisroed as a means of creating memorability and musicality to the target audiences. Lastly at the morphological level acronyms,repetition and borrowing were predominant mainly foremphasis' sake, economise space and time and also to stir familiarity.The paper concludes that the positive effect of the stylistic features adopted by DSTV advertisements cannot be overemphasized noroverruled.