Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language and Literature

Essays in Honour of Efurosibina Adegbija

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736961425
• Print ISBN:
  9783736971424
• Edition: 1

Prof. Emmanuel Efurosibina Adegbija was, at the time of his death in 2005, the first and the only Professor of English Language in the Department of English in the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. As a lecturer, researcher and professor, he had mentored many students and academics and had made a mark in international scholarship. Adegbija had been the acclaimed forerunner of the pragmasociolinguistic approach to the study of language; his publications on language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa as well as on aspects of the lexico-semantics of Nigerian English, have continued to be regarded as basic texts in the disciplines. This volume of essays celebrates his scholarship and legacy. Contributed by language, linguistic and literary scholars, the essays in the collection cover a wide range of issues in core and applied linguistics. Some of the essays pick up the discussion on issues relating to colonial language dominance and language attitudes in Africa, while some examine syntactic, semantic and rhetorical aspects of indigenous Nigerian languages and African literatures. The book's thrust is interdisciplinary. It will undoubtedly appeal to a cross-section of scholars in pragmatics, linguistics, applied linguistics, language and literature.

Table of contents

• 1. ‘MY FRIEND, WHERE IS ANINI?’:DECODING THE MEANING OF UTTERANCES*
• 2. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND THE ISSUE OFDOMINANCE:THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE
• 3. LANGUAGE, ECONOMICS AND GLOBALISATION:ARRESTING DEVALUATION THROUGHPROTECTIONIST MARKETING
• 4. SECOND LANGUAGE VARIETIES HAVE A LIFE OFTHEIR OWN
• 5. TOWARDS THE STANDARDISATION OF NIGERIANPIDGIN: POLITICAL CARTOONS AS VIABLERESOURCES
• 6. AMBIGUATION AND REINTERPRETATION ASRHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN POLITICAL TALK:MAKING WEAPONS OF NAMES, LOGOS AND SLOGANS
• 7. UNIVERSALS OF CAUSATION – PRINCIPLES OFCAUSATIVITY
• 8. ON THE SO-CALLED GENITIVE MORPHEME INSTANDARD YORUBA*
• 9. A CASE FOR CONSTRAINT SUPPRESSION INOPTIMALITY THEORY
• 10. THE CATEGORIAL STATUS OF ÒUN:A YORÙBÁ PUTATIVE CONJUNCTION
• 11. NOMINAL QUALIFIER AS A FUNCTIONAL CLASSIN YORÙBÁ
• 12. COMPUTATIONAL PHILOLOGY
• 13. REFERENCE, COHERENCE AND COMPLEXITY INSTUDENTS’ ACADEMIC WRITING: EXAMPLES FROMCAMEROON AND EAST-AFRICA CORPORA
• 14. STUDENT-CENTRED TEACHING OF LITERATUREIN ESL CLASSROOM
• 15. E-LEARNING METHODS FOR TEACHINGLINGUISTICS:THE MASARYK EXPERIENCE
• 16. IMPACT OF DRAMA ON ENGLISH LANGUAGECOMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: A STUDY OFSECONDARY SCHOOLS IN WESTERN PROVINCE OFKENYA
• 17. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN TRANSITION INAFRICAN LITERATURE1
• 18. RETHINKING THE FRENCH SYLLABUS OFSTYLISTICS WITHIN THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITYSYSTEM
• 19. DEMYSTIFYING “MYSTERIES” AND “MIRACLES”OF EXOTIC TECHNOLOGY: A STYLISTIC ANDCULTURAL EXAMINATION OF ASPECTS OFSOYINKA’S WRITINGS
• 20. A STYLO-SEMANTIC APPRAISAL OF “BLACKCULTURE”
• 21. LINGUISTIC FRAMING AND UNCONSCIOUSIDENTITIES:AFRICANITY AND PSYCHOSIS IN THE WORKS OFBESSIE HEAD
• 22. HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN NIGERIANINDIGENOUS LANGUAGES: REFLECTIONS ON“ABULE OLOKE MERIN” YORUBA RADIO DRAMA
• 23. NEW FEMALE DRAMATISTS IN NIGERIA1
• 24. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO EPIC FORMS:WOLE SOYINKA’S “IDANRE” AND JOHN MILTON’SPARADISE LOST
• 25. PRAGMATISM, HISTORY AND AESTHETICSIN THE DRAMA OF OLA ROTIMI1
• 26. PROVERBS AND THE THEMATIC THRUSTS OFSELECTED POETRY OF WOLE SOYINKA