The discourse of environmental degradation captures monumental losses which culminate
in trauma, and this largely informs the content as well as the form of Niger Delta poetry.
Existing studies on critical engagements ...
Terrorism is a controversial subject because of its variations and the perpetrators. Extant
literary studies have approached terrorism from the trauma perspective and the relationship
between the West and its Others, ...
During presidential election campaigns in Nigeria, online media platforms deploy cartoons
as strategies to project their preferred candidates. Existing linguistic studies on presidential
elections focused largely on ...
Child vulnerability which involves the susceptibility of a child to abuse can spring from
the interface of harmful sociocognitive factors, evident in the discourse of Anti Human
Trafficking and Child Protection Unit ...
Crime narratives of Accused Rapists (ARs) in correctional facilities, like Agodi
Custodial Centre, Ibadan, offers insights into confessional cues that could aid
administration of justice in Nigeria. Existing linguistic ...
Banter, a form of playful and humorous social communication, is deployed in football
discourse on Twitter. Previous studies on banter focused largely on the social bonding
function of banter in daily interaction and the ...
Presidential election campaign advertisements in Nigerian newspapers deploy multimodal
and persuasive discourse strategies, which are contextually predetermined to influence
voters’ decisions before an election. Existing ...
Paradoxical metaphor, the co-occurrence of paradox and metaphor, constitutes an
unusual trope in the representation of mental processes of ailing characters in novels.
Existing studies on the representation of ailing ...
Discourse representations ascribed to social actors unveil ideological orientations in
newspaper reports on migration. Previous studies on migration have explored sociolinguistic,
media and literary issues, with little ...
Phonotactics, which accounts for sound patterning, is affected by language regression in
children with autism. Existing linguistic studies on autism in Nigeria focused mainly on
general description of the disorder and ...
War, a motif in prose fiction, that depicts the varied angles of societal chaos, is explored in
Ugandan novels for different purposes. Existing literary studies on war in Uganda have largely
focused on the representations ...
Herbal sex-enhancement drugs are herbal remedies that function as energisers for sexual
intercourse, and the increase in the usage of these drugs in Nigeria has been influenced by
advertisements. Existing studies on ...
Doctor-patient consultation is a communicative situation which enables doctors to
understand patients’ health challenges in order to prescribe appropriate treatments. Earlier
works on doctor-patient interactions, ...
Virtual communities have become the largest and most diverse domains since the turn of
the century where language plays a dominant role. Studies on communities in the
Nigerian cyberspace have concentrated on discourse ...
Dialogic Internet Memes (DIMs), which aid communication of social interests and
opinions on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), are used to share previous experiences and
negotiate common ground through various contexts. ...
Globalisation constitutes a time-space transformation of human societies. This
phenomenon, which affects cultural formations, has been depicted in African literature,
and especially the novel. Existing studies on ...
Leadership failure is a perennially vexed issue in African postcolonial discourses, particularly in Malawi where Kamuzu Banda’s dictatorship held sway for about three decades. Existing studies on leadership in Malawian ...
Masculinity, a socially constructed set of qualities, behaviours and roles associated with boys and men, is entrenched in promoting patriarchal domination. Existing studies on masculinity in Nigerian literature have focused ...
Migration, a movement of individuals away from their homelands, is a motif in sub-Saharan African migrant novels. Existing studies on African migrant novels emerging since the 1980s have focused on culture contact and ...
Eco-activists, including those portrayed in Niger Delta literature, are advocates of sustainable environmental practices. Existing studies on the struggle against environmental degradation in Niger Delta literature have ...