[{"id": "ajells-1022", "words": "4918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Nicholas, Akas; Prisca, Okeke", "title": "SIGNIFYING SYMBOLS IN TRADITIONAL DANCE:A STUDY OF NKWANWITE DANCE", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ajells; dance; husband; journal; language; studies; symbols; woman", "summary": "Rosemarie Samaritan further postulates that; For the dancer\u2019s body to communicate effectively using signifying symbols, it must undergo series of training, formation and adaption in order to enhance the communicative cum interpretative essence in dance movement. Signifying symbols vary in their usage but what should be the basic perception of any choreographer is its sociological function.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1023", "words": "5212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Emelone, Chioma", "title": "LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF CHIGOZIE OBIOMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE FISHERMEN", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ajells; english; father; fishermen; journal; language; leadership; masses; narrator; nigeria; studies", "summary": "Sociological approach is considered appropriate for this study because the novel under study deals with a family, the smallest unit of the society, alongside Nigeria leadership of the 1990s where the political, economic and culture milieu are woven. The economy of 1990s Nigeria is described by the narrator as \u2018biting\u2019 (The Fishermen 31).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1024", "words": "3360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Amalukwue, Lotachukwu Loveth", "title": "AESTHETICS IN MODERN NIGERIAN POETRY: THE USE OF PROVERBS IN AKACHI ADIMORAEZEIGBO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122SHEART SONGS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "african; english; journal; language; oral; poetry; print; proverbs; studies", "summary": "In view of the above, we see the poet (Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo) in Heart Songs tapping the rich resources contained in African proverbs. He identifies seven categories in which finished African literary works of African literary writers usually fall.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1025", "words": "4457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nwaiwu, Christian Okey", "title": "CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ajells; communication; digital; english; journal; language; line; nigerian; studies; volume", "summary": "Using interview and excerpts of internet publications, the paper examines the concept of digital communication in Nigeria\u2019s environment. At present however, there is no facet of the nation\u2019s human endeavour that is not glued to digital communication.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1026", "words": "3940", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Joseph, Ojonugwa Sunday", "title": "A GENRE ANALYSIS OF FACEBOOK CONVERSATION ON STUDENTS POLITICS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "conversation; english; facebook; journal; language; print; social; studies", "summary": "The work therefore concludes that Facebook conversation is a representation of a socio-cultural event embedded in a context of situation. This obviously explains that Facebook conversation is also a type of social activity, because it involves two or more people interacting with each other using language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1027", "words": "3709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Oge-Chimezie, Onyekachi Georgeline", "title": "THE ENTRAPPED FEMALES OF NAWAL EL SAADAWI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GOD DIES BY THE NILE", "date": "2020", "keywords": "english; experiences; language; literary; studies; theory; trauma; zakeya", "summary": "In this study some characters and socio-cultural factors are examined to see their responses to traumatic experiences. In explaining the dynamics of her protagonist\u2019s psyche Head portrays domestic violence in the novels which eventually leads to psychological trauma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1031", "words": "3715", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Ugwuanyi, Ijeoma Eucharia", "title": "COMBATANT CHILDREN: A STUDY OF SOME SELECTED AFRICAN NOVELS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agu; beasts; children; grotesque; ishmael; language; studies; war", "summary": "The first impressions of child soldiers\u2019 human behavior are often confusing, making it difficult to speak of these actions without wishing to classify them as grotesque. In her study of Child soldiers in Africa, Alvinda, Honwana describes child soldiers as \u201cthose who find themselves in an ambiguous position that defies dichotomies between civilians and combatants, victims and perpetrators, initiated and initiators, protected and protectors, and as others argue, even human and non-human\u201d (7).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1032", "words": "4949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Okwara, Harriet Chinonso", "title": "COLONIZATION AND DECOLONIZATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ARROW OF GODAND NGUGI WA THIONG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE RIVER BETWEEN", "date": "2020", "keywords": "arrow; colonial; ezeulu; god; man; people; river; white", "summary": "Achebe\u2019s guiding principle in the fight against colonial debased orientation of the Africans is, that: African people did not hear of culture for the first time from the Europeans; that their societies were not mindless but frequently had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty that they had poetry and, above all, they had dignity that many African people all but lost in the colonial period, and it is this dignity they must AJELLS: Some decades ago, African countries underwent colonial rule under Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1033", "words": "4699", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ozoh, N. J; Okpala, E. P; Ihueze, A. O", "title": "INDIVIDUAL AS A VICTIM OF THE SOCIETY IN NGOZI CHUMA-UDE'S TEACHERS ON STRIKE", "date": "2020", "keywords": "corruption; english; governor; journal; language; masses; society; studies; teachers", "summary": "They remember the death of many teachers and their families \u2013 Omena'schildren, Irukwe's wife, Ireka's boys and Philo's predicament and cannot bear their anger, the governor has actually pushed them to the wall, he had debased, degraded and demeaned them. (44) A social problem according to Johnson Olawale in his article 'List of social problems in Nigeria\u2019,\u2018is any general behavior or condition that is prevalent among the majority in a particular society and has a negative effect on the society beyond what is seen as moral and just acceptable\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1034", "words": "3044", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Ativie, Karoh", "title": "POLITENESS IN SERVICE ENCOUNTERS: A STUDY OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cus; english; language; politeness; studies", "summary": "They suggest two main strategies \u2013positive politeness strategies and negative politeness strategies-realizable in linguistic forms to AJELLS: Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies Volume 7, No. 1, 2020 Page 196 satisfy the two face needs. Positive politeness strategies function to satisfy the positive face needs while negative politeness strategies satisfy negative face needs of conversational partners.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1036", "words": "3698", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Uche-Okoro, Nnenna Roseline", "title": "AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHORIC EXPRESSIONS AGAINST THE FEMALE GENDER: A STUDY OF SEFI ATTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME", "date": "2020", "keywords": "awka; english; female; gender; journal; language; studies; woman", "summary": "Worst still, if a woman gives birth only to female children, she is being cajoled, abused and oppressed using different languages. Ngendahayo further explains that gender based oppression exists within the framework of patriarchy as a symbolic system that engenders an array of day to day practices which represent the female gender poorly with the aim of oppressing them and relating them to the background.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1276", "words": "5359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Alozie-Onumadu, Chinyere", "title": "SQUEALER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S USE OF EUPHEMISM AND DOUBLESPEAK IN GEORGE ORWELL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ANIMAL FARM", "date": "2020", "keywords": "animals; doublespeak; english; euphemism; farm; language; pigs; squealer; words", "summary": "Euphemism functions effectively in saving face. Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2020 Alozie-Onumadu 15 SQUEALER\u2019S USE OF EUPHEMISM AND DOUBLESPEAK IN GEORGE ORWELL\u2019S ANIMAL FARM Chinyere Alozie-Onumadu Girls\u2019 Secondary School Ikenegbu, Owerri, Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1277", "words": "3816", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Eze, Chinwe Theresa", "title": "A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF NELSON MANDELA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S INAUGURAL SPEECH", "date": "2020", "keywords": "acts; extract; mandela; nelson; south; speech; speeches", "summary": "Inauguration Speech Selected Speeches; Statements and writing of Nelson Mandela. The term itselfwas first used by Searle (22) asserting that talking is performing acts according to rules and that \u201cspeech acts are the basic or minimal units of linguistic communication\u201d(16).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1278", "words": "5126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ifeanyi, Edwin", "title": "THE PIDGIN-LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT IN MODERN NIGERIAN POETRY: A STUDY OF EZENWA-OHAETO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S I WAN BI PRESIDENT", "date": "2020", "keywords": "dem; dey; english; language; nigerian; pidgin; poetry; president; text", "summary": "Unlike earlier studies in NP poetry this study adopts the linguistic-stylistic approach in analyzing Ezenwa-Ohaeto\u2019s Unlike earlier studies in NP poetry this study adopts the linguistic-stylistic approach.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1279", "words": "3852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Eze, Chinwe Theresa", "title": "HATE SPEECH AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE: A STUDY OF SELECTED SPEECHES OF NNAMDI KANU", "date": "2020", "keywords": "discourse; hate; kanu; language; nigeria; people; power; speech", "summary": "To what extent does hate speech in political speeches reflect social power abuse? Political speeches are usually geared towards persuading, motivating and influencing people to join political struggles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1280", "words": "3799", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Egbedi, Martha Omotetobore", "title": "HELON HABILA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WAITING FOR AN ANGEL: THE POLITICAL BILDUNGSROMAN", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bildungsroman; english; james; lomba; nigerian; novel; vol; waiting", "summary": "James helps Lomba to see beyond the AJELLS: James urges Lomba to follow his steps closely.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1281", "words": "5797", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Anyakorah, Nneka Miriam", "title": "EXPLORING THE PORTRAYAL OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN UNIGWE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ON BLACK SISTERS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 STREET", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ama; brother; cyril; extremism; father; journal; man; mother; religion; studies; vol", "summary": "Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2020 Anyakorah 68 EXPLORING THE PORTRAYAL OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN UNIGWE\u2019S ON BLACK SISTERS\u2019 STREET Nneka Miriam Anyakorah Anambra State Internal Revenue Service, Onitsha, Anambra Civil Service Commission, Anambra State Email: anyanne2006@yahoo.co.uk Abstract There is hardly any shortage of studies on the problem of religious extremism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1282", "words": "3167", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ngige, Nneoma Chiebuka", "title": "NIGERIAN PIDGIN USE AND STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY STAND-UP COMEDIANS TO ACHIEVE INTERACTION IN COMEDY", "date": "2020", "keywords": "audience; comedians; comedy; english; language; nigerian; pidgin; stand; use", "summary": "In the Nigerian Stand-up Comedy context, four broad languages are spoken: Standard English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and local languages (L1s). Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2020 Ngige 80 NIGERIAN PIDGIN USE AND STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY STAND-UP COMEDIANS TO ACHIEVE INTERACTION IN COMEDY Nneoma Chiebuka Ngige Department of English Language and Literature Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State Email: nneomangige2@gmail.com", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1283", "words": "4009", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Nwagbara, Andrew Ibeawuchi", "title": "THE POET AND HIS ANCESTORS: A STUDY OF SELECTED AFRICAN POEMS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "african; ancestors; english; language; living; poem; poet; tradition; vol", "summary": "Keywords: Ancestors, Magical Realism, African worldview Introduction Who are the ancestors? Smart Ninian\u2019s view is that \u201cancestors are generally assumed to be interested in some way in the continuance of the line, so the gift of offerings to them is a means of promoting the fertility both of human beings and of the environment (Ninian, 36)\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1284", "words": "3133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Obodo, Comfort Adaobi", "title": "FUNCTIONAL SHIFT AND DIRECTIONALITY", "date": "2020", "keywords": "directionality; pass; shift; verb", "summary": "V N dec\u2019ay V N cem\u2019ent V N conc\u2019ern V N am\u2019ount V N def\u2019eat V N disp\u2019ute V N pres\u2019erve V N This paper sets out to investigate the directionality of functional shift pairs with the intention of finding out the best criterion one can use to determine the directionality of the functional shift pairs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1285", "words": "4561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Okwara, Harriet Chinonso", "title": "HOMOSEXUALITY AND TRAUMA: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL READING OF CHINELO OKPARANTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S UNDER THE UDALA TREES", "date": "2020", "keywords": "african; english; homosexuality; ijeoma; language; man; mother; nigeria; studies; vol", "summary": "Frankie the protagonist in the novel titled Lives of Great Men (2017) by Frankie Edoziengets lured in same sex affair by a hostel mate who seemed to be bored by the monotonous activity in the unisex school arrangement. In some part of Africa especially in Nigeria, some women attribute same sex affair as an avenue for women emancipation and liberation from what the women folk tagged \u2018patriarchal world\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1286", "words": "5093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Okunrobo, Bridget Dahunsi", "title": "CHALLENGING GENDER STEREOTYPES AND PATRIARCHY: A WOMANISTREADING OF AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TRILOGY", "date": "2020", "keywords": "adimora; african; children; eaglewoman; ezeigbo; female; feminism; gender; womanism; women", "summary": "The theory challenges the preconceived ideas about African women and their lives. The narrative in The Last of the Strong Ones clearly illustrates the tenet that African women are in concert with male in their struggle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1287", "words": "4756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Oparah, Chiamaka Thelma", "title": "AFRICAN PLAYWRIGHTS AND THE POST-COLONIAL SOCIETY: A STUDY OF EMEKA NWABUEZE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S A PARLIAMENT OF VULTURES AND ESIABA IROBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HANGMEN ALSO DIE", "date": "2020", "keywords": "awka; colonialism; corruption; english; language; leaders; madam; omeaku; people; society", "summary": "EmekaNwabueze\u2019s A Parliament of Vulturesportrays a society that is governed by corrupt leaders. The play also ridicules the \u2018\u2018poor man\u2019\u2019 who seizes to criticize corrupt leaders when given a piece of the \u2018\u2018national cake\u2019\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1288", "words": "4549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Chinweuba, Rainbow Emeka", "title": "FIDELITY EROSION: BACK-TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED VERSES OF THE BIBLE NSO VERSION", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bible; english; erosion; fidelity; igbo; language; source; translation; word", "summary": "Igbo Translation: I nedo table n\u2019usoro n\u2019irum n\u2019anya ndi nakpabum... The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want Igbo Translation:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1290", "words": "2958", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Ugwuanyi, Ijeoma Eucharia", "title": "CHILDREN OF THE STREETS: A STUDY OF SOME SELECTED AFRICAN NOVELS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "children; faceless; family; paradise; people; street", "summary": "For the family of Maa Tsuru, we find child abuse, child labour, neglect and abandonment of children, rape and sexual abuse, child prostitution and other forms of exploitation. This paper investigated street children as presented by Amma Darko in Faceless and Bulawayo Noviolate in We Need New Names.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1292", "words": "3306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ihezie, Chinomnso; Akujobi, Odochi", "title": "ACHIEVING READING READINESS IN EARLY YEARS", "date": "2020", "keywords": "child; children; language; readiness; reading", "summary": "Hence, this paper tries to examine how reading readiness can be maximally achieved among early year\u2019s pupils as the foundation for reading fluency should be laid at their level, to enhance productivity. The paper examined reading readiness indicators, possible factors that could limit reading readiness and ways to achieve reading readiness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1293", "words": "1385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne", "title": "THE HOOD IN NOSTALGIA (A POEM)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "awka; hood; language; studies; vol", "summary": "A staple food common among Igbo people Akwu (Palm Nuts): The edible seed of Elaeis guineesis, the palm oil Amadioha: A deity (god) in Igbo religious worship Anyanwu (Sun): The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth Arira: Slimy edible green plant rich in vitamins Ede (Cocoyam): The edible root of the plant malanga used in thickening local soups Iroko: African hardwood obtained from several African trees of the genus Chlorophora Ji: The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food Nchuanwu (Scent leaf): Special naturally scented leaves for cooking special food in Igbo land Nkwu: A tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterized by having a single stem or trunk, directly fromwhich several leaves or fronds give a shape like an outstretched hand Ogili: A special native dark condiment made from edibleseedpods mixed with otherlocal ingredients for cooking delicious Igbo soups Onugbu (Bitter leaf): Special edible green bitter plant used in making local soups in Igbo region of Nigeria Udala: In Hood\u2019s stead, Anyanwu, the Sunshine was before noon bearing a shower of warm beaming rays.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1328", "words": "6128", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Akabuike, Ifeoma", "title": "TRANSITIVITY IN PROVERBS IN ACHEBE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THINGS FALL APART", "date": "2020", "keywords": "awka; clause; english; journal; language; process; processes; proverbs; studies; transitivity", "summary": "Excerpt of mental process He grewrapidly like a yam tendril in the rainy season Senser Mental process Cir Phenomeno n cir That will grow In the examples above, grew, will grow, see, know, grew, has grown, respectively are all mental processes. The reason is to find out whether the analysis of the transitivity system: Process type, in terms of what is represented by the verbal group in the clause have helped to bring out meanings intended by the writer for easy understanding of the novel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1771", "words": "6700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Ogbazi, Ify; Odinye, Ifeoma; Mbonu, Maryann Raluchukwu", "title": "ABERRATION OF NORM: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN OUOLOGUEM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S BOUND TO VIOLENCE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; awka; english; freud; homosexuality; kassoumi; language; life; man; odinye; raymond; studies; violence", "summary": "(Bound to Violence, 147) Sparctacus Raymond Kassoumi has lost it all. The white man continues to pressure Raymond Kassoumi to completely give into his desire by saying sweet words to him and all.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1772", "words": "7153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ogene, Mbanefo S.; Ezeonyi, Nneoma Onyinye", "title": "A WRECKED SELF: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL READING OF RAPE VICTIM IN ATTA'S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME", "date": "2021", "keywords": "atta; awka; english; enitan; journal; language; life; rape; rts; sheri; trauma; victim; vol", "summary": "This study not only explores the evil of rape; it goes further to enlighten rape victims and the society on the dangers of rape on the human person; the phases of rape trauma and its coping mechanisms. The society still plays the blame-game on rape victims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1775", "words": "5053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Okoye, Chike; Asika, Chisom Loretta", "title": "THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH: INVESTIGATING THE LETHAL CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION IN IFEOMA OKOYE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE FOURTH WORLD", "date": "2021", "keywords": "avenue; chira; english; environment; journal; kasanga; language; studies; volume; world", "summary": "Looking at the effect of such environment to kids and the people living in Kasanga Avenue, it could cause a deadly ailment or untimely death because of the kind of environment that they were exposed to. The author made use of a fictitious shanty slum of Kasanga Avenue in Enugu to expose the negligence of environment by the government.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1987", "words": "4545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Eburuaja, Chiagozie; Udoh, Chinwe", "title": "NIGERIANISMS AND NIGERIAN SOCIO-CULTURAL IDENTITIES: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS IN COMPUTERMEDIATED COMMUNICATION", "date": "2021", "keywords": "communication; english; language; means; media; nigerian; people; speech; use", "summary": "Social media is currently the largest gathering of humans from around the world, so it is pertinent to study English as it is used on social media platforms. It also analyses certain discursive practices on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1988", "words": "4246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Onebunne, L.A.; Akujobi, O.S.", "title": "STUDENTS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 SLANGUAGE IN NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY (UNIZIK) AWKA, NIGERIA: ANY POSITIVITY?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "awka; english; language; respondents; slang; students; university; use", "summary": "For this paper, we shall examine student slang. When a person uses slang, the entire situation becomes informal or even colloquial depending on the quantity and quality of slang use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1989", "words": "5446", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne; Ebingha, Beatrice N.", "title": "VOCALITY IN SEFI ATTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WOMEN: A CRITIQUE OF EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME", "date": "2021", "keywords": "atta; enitan; father; husband; language; mother; novel; release; vocality; women", "summary": "Women and Vocality: The Feminist Streak in Everything Good Will Come Against the docile and voiceless women portrayed in male authored texts, Atta in her novel showcases women who are assertive and are able to speak out for the world, especially the patriarchal domain which helps them gain their self-worth. And Grace Ameh charges her, \u201c\u2026Yes, yes, but you have a voice\u2026.use your voice to bring about change\u201d (Atta 258-259) by this, Ameh encourages her to join other women, human rights and civil liberty organizations in the struggle for the release of her father and other political detainees.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1990", "words": "2550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane N.; Chima, Ezinne Agwuama", "title": "ADVERTISEMENT SLOGANS OF SELECTED SOAPS AND DETERGENTS IN NIGERIAN MARKET: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "advertisers; customers; language; product; slogans", "summary": "Advertisement slogan has proven to be a successful tool for communication between the advertisers and the public. The essence of advertisement slogan is to communicate the existence and quality of a product to the public.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1991", "words": "8448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ogbazi, Ifeyinwa J.; Osita, Ijeoma Lena", "title": "MAGIC REALISM AS A CONVERGE OF POSTCOLONIALISM AND POSTMODERNISM: A STUDY OF SOME SELECTED WORKS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "english; identity; jessamy; journal; language; magic; narrative; novel; oyeyemi; realism; studies; term; tilly; tilly tilly; time; world", "summary": "Magic realism therefore helps in the development of our multicultural sensibilities this is because magic realism is a narrative mode that reflects hybrid postcolonial countries. There she encounters Tilly Tilly, who may be her dead twin, the novel gets complicated when Tilly Tilly returns to England with Jessy and fights her for the possession of her body.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1992", "words": "4831", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Nnyagu, Uche", "title": "PARSING THE PAST AND PRESENT NIGERIAN NOVELS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACHEBE AND ADICHIE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "achebe; adichie; father; igbo; man; novel; people; society; things", "summary": "Like Achebe\u2019s Things Fall Apart, Purple Hibiscus affirms that in Igbo society, even in the 21st century, women, like snails are made to perpetually remain in their shells and never to react against any afflictions. Achebe himself believes that a typical Igbo man must be one who knows the Igbo proverbs, understands proverbs and knows how to apply them in natural context, hence he sees proverbs as the oil with which Igbo people eat words.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1993", "words": "5126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi; Ugochukwu, Eucharia Nkechinyere", "title": "LANGUAGE LEARNING THEORIES: BEHAVIOURISM, MENTALISM AND AFFECTIVISM", "date": "2021", "keywords": "acquisition; behaviour; children; english; human; language; learners; learning; theories; theory", "summary": "Abstract This work focuses on the pedagogical implications of language learning theories, namely behaviourism, mentalism, and affectisim, and their applications in the learning of English as a second language. Particular attention will be paid to behaviourism, mentalism and affectivism as language learning theories in this section.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1994", "words": "3768", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ogbazi, Ifeyinwa; Amah, Uche Chinwe", "title": "SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE: A FEMINIST READING OF JUDE DIBIA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S UNBRIDLED", "date": "2021", "keywords": "assault; father; feminism; ngozi; studies; unbridled; women", "summary": "Mekegwe (2008) defines African feminism, while acknowledging the complexities that surround the linguistic and socio-cultural realities of African women, as \u201ca discourse that takes care to delineate those concerns peculiar to the African situation. One of the main objectives of African feminism, according to Omolojobi, is to dismantle the current atmosphere of domination and then transform the concept of gender roles in African societies in order to improve the conditions of African women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1995", "words": "3904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ezeifeka, Chinwe; Ogbogu, Ngozi Florence", "title": "THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS TEXTS ON THE LEVEL OF ROAD ACCIDENTS IN NIGERIA: A SEMIOTIC INVESTIGATION", "date": "2021", "keywords": "frsc; meaning; road; road signs; safety; signs; study; texts", "summary": "Keywords: FRSC manual, road safety, multimodality, road sign Introduction The study is motivated by the observation that despite government effort to disseminate information on road safety through road signs embedded in Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) manual, numbers of road traffic accidents continue to rise every year. This study discovered that the level of awareness of drivers is a serious impediment to drivers understanding of road signs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1996", "words": "4504", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Ude, Chika Queen", "title": "COHESION AND COHERENCE IN SELECTED SERMONS OF CHURCH LEADERS: ARCHBISHOP OBINNA AND LATE PASTOR BIMBO ODUKOYA", "date": "2021", "keywords": "church; cohesion; ellipsis; god; language; leaders; sermons; text", "summary": "The language of church sermons: A stylistic perspective. Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2021 69 Ude COHESION AND COHERENCE IN SELECTED SERMONS OF CHURCH LEADERS: ARCHBISHOP OBINNA AND LATE PASTOR BIMBO ODUKOYA Chika Queen Ude Department of English Language and Literature Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri E-mail: chykad2002@yahoo.com", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1997", "words": "3933", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Ononye, Chiamaka Ogugua; Anyanwu, Esther", "title": "A STYLISTIC STUDY OF AKACHI ADIMORA'S ROSES AND BULLETS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bullets; english; igbo; language; linguistic; roses; style; writer", "summary": "The language of literature is unique as it is formal and is different from other kinds of language use. Therefore, style may be regarded as a preference of linguistic items, as a total departure from the models of language use, as recurrent features of linguistic forms and as comparisons.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1998", "words": "5830", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Anyakorah, Nneka M.; Ogene, Mbanefo S.", "title": "RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN UNIGWE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ON BLACK SISTERS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 STREET", "date": "2021", "keywords": "africa; ama; brother; cyril; extremism; father; house; man; mother; obss; religion", "summary": "Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2021 82 Anyakorah & Mbanefo RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN UNIGWE\u2019S ON BLACK SISTERS\u2019 STREET Nneka M. Anyakorah Anambra State Civil Service Commission, Awka Email: anyanne2006@yahoo.co.uk & Dr. Mbanefo S. Ogene Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Email: sm.ogene@unizik.edu.ng Abstract There is hardly any shortage of studies on the problem of religious extremism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-1999", "words": "3471", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Igweadiani, Nwabunwanne; Nnamdi-Eruchalu, Geraldine Ifesinachi", "title": "PHONOLOGICAL USE OF THE WEAK FORMS OF PREPOSITIONS BY THE EDUCATED IGBO SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH", "date": "2021", "keywords": "english; forms; igbo; language; speakers; words", "summary": "The study which relied on Labov\u2019s theory of variation observed that educated Igbo speakers of English manifested variation in their production of weak forms when compared with RP. Bearing in mind that speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use the weak forms, as well as the need to avoid sounding unnatural before the competent users of weak forms, this study sets out to investigate and characterize the phonological use of weak forms by educated Igbo speakers of English with focus on pronouns across social variables of age and gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2000", "words": "5943", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne; Ebingha, Beatrice N.", "title": "LANGUAGE AND STYLE AS FEMINIST EXTENSION IN NURUDDIN FARAH\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S FROM A CROOKED RIB", "date": "2021", "keywords": "awill; ebla; farah; female; journey; language; man; movement; novel; rib", "summary": "Unfortunately, Ebla succumbs to the same fate she wishes to escape\u2014 this shows a cyclical structure because she ends where she started from, though with more experience, knowledge and power in gender issues. In a wider context, Farah depicts Ebla\u2019s experiences as a symbolic representation of the condition of the female gender in Somalia and their overall dependence on men for survival.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2001", "words": "6056", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Njoku, Juliana Chinwe", "title": "THE ROLE OF MACROSTRUCTURES IN COMPLEX INFORMATION REDUCTION", "date": "2021", "keywords": "information; language; macrostructures; meaning; propositions; rules; sentence; summary; text; topic", "summary": "In other words, macrostructures for summarizing texts are generated by the application of macro-rules. They deal with the overall topic, the theme and the schematic organization of discourses or texts, they represent the gist of an entire text.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2002", "words": "5283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Ike, C.B.; Akujobi, O.S.", "title": "WIDOWHOOD IN LONELY DAYS: UNSUNG CASUALTIES", "date": "2021", "keywords": "feminism; husband; laws; nigeria; practices; widowhood; widows; women; yaremi", "summary": "The remarriage law, like other widowhood practices in the text, is patriarchal in nature. The case of widows is similar to that of other women, where they are disadvantaged by the patriarchal system with laws to subjugate and maltreat them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2003", "words": "8376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi; Ikemelu, Agatha Uchenna", "title": "WOMEN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SEXIST LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF PATRIARCHY: A RE-READING OF NWAPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S EFURU", "date": "2021", "keywords": "efuru; female; gender; husband; journal; language; man; mills; sexism; society; studies; use; vol; women; world", "summary": "According to Kendall and Tannen,the book Language and Women\u2019s Place (LWP) by Robin Lakoff, was the first of the studies that looked at language used by women and men as dictated by the society, and, which has contributed to reinforcing the status of women as subordinates to men (640). Patriarchy is a concept that empowers men to see themselves as superior, while women are subordinate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2004", "words": "4070", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Umetiti, Chidimma P.; Ezeifeka, Chinwe", "title": "ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "analysis; discourse; east; group; ipob; media; military; strategies", "summary": "These functions are related because social groups and institutions can shape social activities and beliefs. Social 'left behind' groups, in the words of Goodwin and Heath (1), can be defined as: Social groups that are united by a general sense of insecurity, pessimism and marginalisation who do not feel as though elites... share their values, represent their interests or genuinely empathise with their intense angst about rapid social, economic and cultural change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2005", "words": "3949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane; Ilodinso, Chiamaka Rosemary", "title": "MULTIMODAL STUDY OF SELECTED CARTOONS IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "image; language; meaning; modes; multimodal; participants; process; viewer; visual", "summary": "They assume that image, color, music, typography and other visual modes are similar to language and they can simultaneously fulfill and realize these three broad communicative metafunctions as language does; representational, AJELLS: In view of this, image and other visual modes can represent objects and their relations in the world and they often communicate things other than words.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2006", "words": "3550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Chukwu, Ephriam; Amadi, Andrew Ndiwe", "title": "CONNOTATION AS A RHETORICAL DEVICE IN OBASANJO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S OPEN LETTER TO JONATHAN", "date": "2021", "keywords": "expression; jonathan; language; letter; nigeria; obasanjo; rhetoric", "summary": "The data used for this analysis were drawn from Obasanjo\u2019s open letter titled Before It Is Too Late (2013) to then incumbent President Jonathan. \u201cThey\u201d refers to the President\u2019s \u201csatanic\u201d aides and collaborators who merely benefit despite the fact that they did not actually contribute in making Jonathan President.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2007", "words": "5786", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Eze, Nwamaka Regina; Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi", "title": "SEXISM AS AN ASPECT OF FACE THREATENING ACT: A STUDY OF SELECTED SPEECH SITUATIONS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "act; face; gender; language; politeness; sexism; study; text; use; women", "summary": "This study used conversational settings such as family and church meetings to examine the linguistic phenomena of sexism as a form of face threatening acts from the perspectives of diverse speech situations. Keywords: sexism, face threatening act, verbal scar and linguistic facelessness 1.0 Introduction The controversies surrounding sexism as a form of face threatening act is the driving force behind this study which aims at discovering linguistic markers of sexism as an aspect of face threatening act.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2008", "words": "4990", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Nnamdi-Eruchalu, Geraldine I.; Onwuzuruike, Tobechi Maria", "title": "A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF 2019 POLITICAL POSTERS OF THREE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES IN IMOSTATE OF NIGERIA", "date": "2021", "keywords": "analysis; candidates; discourse; english; gubernatorial; imo; language; london; poster; state; use", "summary": "Political Poster of the 2019 AA Gubernatorial Candidate, Uche Nwosu. AJELLS: Political poster of the APC candidate for 2019 gubernatorial election, HopeUzodimma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2119", "words": "10720", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Ogbazi, Ifeyinwa J.; Onyeachulam, Sylvanus C.", "title": "THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN AFRICAN NOVELS: A STUDY OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S AMERICANAH AND ODILI UJUBUONU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S PRIDE OF THE SPIDER CLAN", "date": "2021", "keywords": "adichie; african; ajells; america; english; identity; ifemelu; isikamdi; journal; language; odidika; ogbazi; people; search; studies; vol", "summary": "Keywords: Identity, Psychoanalysis, African Literature, Diaspora Introduction An issue that often comes up in literature is the search for identity, especially among Africans who find themselves in foreign countries with a different culture and worldviews. The state of identity crisis is seen as one affecting the psychological conditions of a person or group, a situation of internal contradictions within the individual which could lead to different forms of disequilibrium.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2145", "words": "4472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane N.; Nwachukwu, Winifred Ngozi", "title": "CONDUIT CORRUPTION: A MULTIMODAL CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SLEAZE IN NIGERIAN SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cartoons; corruption; fight; figure; journal; language; studies; study; visual; vol", "summary": "Notably, political cartoons come handy at a time when it is considered perilous to be too openly critical of an authority. This descriptive design is based on the qualitative interpretation of the data from political cartoons produced by Mike Asukwo.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2146", "words": "6482", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane N.; Nwachukwu, Winifred Ngozi", "title": "NIGERIA IN THE EYES OF MIKE ASUKWO: A SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "analysis; cartoons; communication; corruption; images; language; meaning; multimodal; people; studies; study", "summary": "Furthermore, since visual signs have become an important part of political expression, constructing either positive or negative images of politicians, political parties and addressing other issues and events of concern in the society, etc., a study of political cartoons which generally rely on a multiplicity of visual resources is not only desirable but also expedient in the light of the emerging linguistic and socio-political practices. Hence, through pictorial representations, political cartoons challenge the traditional ways of literacy, thereby affording readers new ways of interpreting meaning and reality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2147", "words": "3733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Oaikhena, Abigail Onowosemenmen; Ogene, Mbanefo S.", "title": "ECOLITERATURE AND LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF TANURE OJAIDE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE ACTIVIST AND HELON HABILA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S OIL ON WATER", "date": "2021", "keywords": "awka; delta; english; environment; journal; language; literature; oil; studies", "summary": "These writers, in their texts, uncover the socioeconomic relations, leadership failure and degraded environment/ecology that endangered the lives of the people in Niger Delta refereed through (global) capitalism. Adopting this reflectionist paradigm, this study examines the role of (mis)leadership in Nigeria, which has culminated in the seemingly intractable Niger Delta question in the creative works of select Nigerian authors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2388", "words": "3596", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane N.; Nwaenyi, Chinyelu", "title": "HELLINGER AND BUBMANN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S PATTERNS OF SEXISM IN THE LANGUAGE OF NOLLYWOOD MOVIES", "date": "2022", "keywords": "expressions; gender; language; movies; nollywood; sexist; women", "summary": "Thus, exposure to and active use of sexist language may influence women\u2019s attitudes about themselves, women in general, and the perceived difference between women\u2019s and men\u2019s status in society. Sexist language, according to Atkinson (75) is a \u201cwide range of verbal practices, including not only how women are labeled and referred to, but also how language strategies in mixed sex interaction may serve to silence or depreciate women as interactants\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2389", "words": "8362", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Ogene, Mbanefo Stephen; Nwakaego, Obi Gladys", "title": "WAR TRAUMA AND OTHER SIDES OF PAIN AND VIOLENCE IN ADAOKEREAGBASIMALO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122STHEFOREST DAMES AND ALEXANDER MADIEBO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122STHE NIGERIAN REVOLUTION AND THE BIAFRAN WAR", "date": "2022", "keywords": "awka; children; civil; death; enemy; journal; language; lives; narrator; nigeria; pains; people; violence; war", "summary": "Looking at these traumatic events, Goodluck Jonathan quoted in EmefienaEzeani\u2019s in Biafra Africa Died (2013) attests to the disheartening violence and pains of war thus: \u201cthese act of mayhem are sad reminders of the events which plunged our country into 30 months of unfortunate civil war, referring to Biafran war in which more than one million people died\u201d and the 1966 pogrom in the North\u201d(50). This tells the extent of violence and pains war could bring upon a country or nation not withstanding their faith in God.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2390", "words": "4172", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Anuforo, Laserian Onyeka; Okoye, Chike", "title": "MONODRAMA AND THE NARRATOLOGY OF ORAL AFRICAN CULTURE: A STUDY OF MBAJIORGU AND BINEBAI", "date": "2022", "keywords": "drama; language; mbajiorgu; minister; monodrama; prime; solo; son; theatre", "summary": "He further adds thus, I tried to establish a pattern of solo drama tradition that has its roots in the Ijaw cultural background and other ethnic groups in the Niger- Delta. But the more solo drama in Africa showcases itself in the forms of written text, the more the oral narratology of African culture reveals itself in solo drama.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2391", "words": "5246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Maduike, Ndidiamaka Ndukauba; Asigbo, Alex", "title": "SOCIAL AWARENESS AND DISILLUSIONMENT IN JOE USHIE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HILLSONGS AND AREIGN OF LOCUST", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; class; english; journal; language; masses; military; poem; poet; poetry; society; studies; ushie", "summary": "Evidently, in terms of thematic exploration, there is no clear- cut dichotomy among the three generations of Nigerian poets, but with the new Nigerian poet, there is a crystal difference in stylistic rendition and an artistic presentation that resonates with the socio-political complications and difficult situations of their time. Unlike other poets, the poet rejects supporting visionless ruler, and he will not be blind to their excesses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2392", "words": "4232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane N.; Akabuike, Ifeoma Grace", "title": "EXPERIENTIAL MEANING IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S PURPLE HIBISCUS: A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "actor; cir; goal; halliday; language; material; process; transitivity", "summary": "Lexically indeterminate Evasive process (material process shading into mental ones). Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 8 No. 2, 2021 46 Ifechelobi & Akabuike It was found out that Adichie made the most use of material processes which shows that the choice of transitive and intransitive verbs depict actions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2393", "words": "4032", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Chukwu, Ephraim; Amadi, Andrew Ndiwe", "title": "AN ANALYSIS ON PRAGMATIC FORCE IN OLUSEGUN OBASANJO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S OPEN LETTER TO GOODLUCK JONATHAN", "date": "2022", "keywords": "acts; force; jonathan; language; letter; obasanjo; speech", "summary": "According to Austin (cited in Osisanwo, 60), speech acts are processes in which \u201ca person performs an act such as stating a fact, stating an opinion, confirming or denying something, making a prediction or a request, asking a question, issuing an order, giving a permission, giving a piece of advice, making an offer, making a promise, thanking somebody or condoling somebody\u201d. While corroborating the above definition, Mey (95) maintains that \u201cspeech acts are verbal exchanges happening in the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2395", "words": "4143", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Okwara, Harriet Chinonso; Ogene, Mbanefo S.", "title": "HOMOSEXUALITY: THE AFTERMATH OF CHILD NEGLECT IN DIBIA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122SWALKING WITH SHADOWS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adrian; child; homosexuality; life; love; parents; practice; society", "summary": "In Nigeria and most Africa countries, sexual orientation is patterned alongside cultural and religious lines. In the Nigerian cultural setting, sex and sexual unions must happen between a man and a woman; any sexual behaviour that goes contrary to this patterned structure is viewed as taboo and abomination and consequently frowned at.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2396", "words": "3872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi; Umelo, Ngozi Jovita N.", "title": "POLITENESS MAXIMS AND VERBAL VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES: A STUDY OF EMEKUKU OWERRI NORTH, IMO STATE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "face; families; family; journal; language; maxims; politeness; violence", "summary": "The study examined politeness maxims and verbal violence in families\u2019 language use. The jeopardy of verbal violence in families against politeness maxims was discussed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2397", "words": "4067", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Nnamdi-Eruchalu, Geraldine; Mgbogu, Charity Egodi", "title": "A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF IPOB SPEECHES AND JINGLES AGAINST ANAMBRA 2017 GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "election; ipob; language; nigeria; style; stylistics; text; use", "summary": "This theory postulates that variations in language use embodies different varieties of meaning (106). 3. IPOB killing: you do nothing even to ask Nigeria government why killing your people?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2398", "words": "4956", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi; Ugochukwu, Eucharia Nkechinyere", "title": "TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE PROBING EYES BY NWACHUKWUAGBADA", "date": "2022", "keywords": "clause; halliday; material; mental; participants; process; processes; relational; transitivity", "summary": "Process types in The Probing Eyes. Process types in transitivity system helps human beings recognize and encode their experiences or phenomena of the real world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2399", "words": "3725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Ogbazi, Ifeyinwa; Odey, Okache C.", "title": "\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVIRUS OF DEPARTURE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: MIGRATION AND (DIS) ILLUSION(MENT) IN TAHAR BEN JELLOUN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S LEAVING TANGIER", "date": "2022", "keywords": "azel; ben; gilroy; jelloun; life; spain; tahar", "summary": "The postcolonial situation in many countries in Africa, according to Maximilian Feldner, is driving \u201cAfrican migration movement, which, albeit is often caused by constrained circumstances, is largely voluntary, as many Africans leave homes to seek work and better opportunities elsewhere, particularly in the United States and Europe\u201d (15). The realization that the dream of the good life is largely unrealizable usually breaks the spirit of many African immigrants in the West as they face the stark reality of being an outsider in a foreign land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2400", "words": "6226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Onyenweaku, Okechukwu", "title": "LANGUAGE OF ALTERCATION IN CONFLICT SITUATION: A CRITICAL STUDY OF SELECTED SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND MAZI NNAMDI KANU", "date": "2022", "keywords": "altercation; buhari; conflict; journal; language; language use; nigeria; people; president; print; situation; use", "summary": "This explicates the need for caution and diplomacy in language use. It is, therefore, imperative for language users to acquire relevant skills in language use that will help them maintain peace, prevent and resolve conflict that may arise in the course of human relations and verbal interactions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2401", "words": "4827", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Nwagbara, Andrew Ibeawuchi", "title": "THE DISREPUTABLE FATE OF THE HEROINE IN THE NIGERIAN FICTION: THE PERSPECTIVES OF AKACHI ADIMORA- EZEIGBO IN TRAFFICKED AND BUCHI EMECHETA IN THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adimora; ego; emecheta; ezeigbo; life; nigeria; nneoma; nnu; novel; woman", "summary": "The two writers represent two different generations of Nigerian female writers. This intellectual exercise looks at the traumatic experiences of female protagonists in Akachi Adimora-", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2402", "words": "5697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Nnyagu, Uche; Adunchezor, Ngozi G.", "title": "THE SATIRIC CHANTS OF ATUMMA AS A VERITABLE MEANS OF SOCIETAL REFORMATION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "atumma; chants; man; masquerades; men; poetry; satire; society; ugonabo; women", "summary": "Atumma Ugonabo of Abagana, Atumma Ogufoluchi of Ukpo and Atumma Ugonano from Abba are the most popular groups in the area. He looks very much like Atumma Ugonabo and Atumma Ugonano except for the absence of eagle feathers AJELLS:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2403", "words": "3543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane Nkechi; Onuoha, Kelechi Ihendu", "title": "THE ENGLISH HOLY BIBLE: LANGUAGE AND MULTIPLICITY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bible; english; language; text; translation; versions; words", "summary": "Why Bible Translations Differ: A Guide for the Perplexed. Daniell (xiii), specifically states that \u201cthere are over 350 published complete English Bible versions, most of which have appeared in the 20th century, while part translations of the Bible (mostly individual books have reached over twelve hundred since 1945 alone\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2404", "words": "7259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ogene, Mbanefo S.; Onyejizu, Raphael Chukwuemeka", "title": "WRITING FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN IN A DRACONIAN SOCIETY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHARACTERS IN HABILA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WAITING FOR AN ANGEL AND IKERIONWU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HEROES OF CHANGE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "awka; change; class; english; habila; journal; language; literature; lomba; marxism; masses; military; poverty; society; studies; writer", "summary": "Theoretical Framework: Marxism Marxism is a theory of social change, which embodies a wide spectrum of relationships with many fields of human and scholarly endeavours. For the Marxist, therefore, social change is the numero uno.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2405", "words": "3151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Chukwu, Ephriam; Alozie-Onumadu, Chinyere", "title": "PROFANITY IN NAWAL EL SAADAWI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WOMAN AT POINT ZERO", "date": "2022", "keywords": "dysphemism; euphemism; impoliteness; language; taboo; words", "summary": "The qualitative descriptive method was used to describe the utterances that were made by the characters in order to ascertain the effect profane words have on an individual and the reason people use swear words. One of the purposes of the study is to investigate the effects of swear words on the individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-2894", "words": "5817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ifechelobi, Jane; Ebekue, Ifunanya Laurencia", "title": "A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE DEBATE AMONG THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES IN ANAMBRA STATE 2017 ELECTION", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ajells; analysis; awka; debate; discourse; english; journal; language; power; speeches; studies", "summary": "In this study, the researcher has viewed political debate speeches that encode power and dominance with ideological undertone. These kinds of studies are generally classified under political discourse analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-4451", "words": "3703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "CHINYEAKA, LAURETTA", "title": "AN OVERVIEW OF ADVERBS FOR THE PROFICIENT USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "adjective; adverbs; english; language; volume", "summary": "Adverbs that tell \u2018how' are called adverbs of manner. Adverbs that tell 'when ' are called adverbs of time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajells-4452", "words": "2977", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Lauretta Chinyeaka, Emmanuel Obiudo;", "title": "MAKING PROFESSIONAL ETHICS COUNT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "english; ethics; language; professional; teaching", "summary": "Abstract This paper examines the role that professional ethics play in enhancing language teaching and learning. In the light of the foregoing, the paper examines the issue of professional ethics as they concern language teaching, especially at the tertiary level of education in Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]