item: #1 of 132 id: feschschrifts-203 author: Asonganyi, Esther Phubon Chie Epse title: AN OPTIMALITY THEORY ANALYSIS OF NÅŠWƐ SYLLABLE STRUCTURE date: 2019 words: 5915 flesch: 62 summary: In this regard therefore, syllable constraints are applied using some Nŋwɛ data. The evaluation of these candidate analyses is the function of the evaluator, the component of ranked constraints. keywords: candidate; coda; constraints; dep; language; onset; output; syllable; table cache: feschschrifts-203.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-203.txt item: #2 of 132 id: feschschrifts-204 author: Ikegwuonu, Christiana Ngozi title: GA AS A HOMONYMOUS LEXEME IN IGBO: A MORPHOSYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS date: 2019 words: 3586 flesch: 77 summary: Polarity, mood and aspect in Ohuhu Igbo verbs. This is because verb plays significant roles in the grammatical structures of the language. keywords: fut; igbo; language; meaning; root; rvpst; verb cache: feschschrifts-204.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-204.txt item: #3 of 132 id: feschschrifts-205 author: Nkamigbo, Linda Chinelo; Agu, Ngozi Christiana title: DOCUMENTATION OF DIRGE SONGS AMONG THE AMOKWE ORJI PEOPLE OF NIGERIA date: 2019 words: 3080 flesch: 68 summary: The phenomenon of dirge songs is an important cultural aspect of the Amokwe Orji community. Dirge songs in Amokwe Orji are rendered at the funeral of a woman or a teenage girl only. keywords: /ↄwʊ; death; dirge; documentation; endangered; language; songs cache: feschschrifts-205.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-205.txt item: #4 of 132 id: feschschrifts-206 author: Enweonye, Chinedum; Egwuekwe, Francisca Ukwuoma title: SYNONYMS IN AMAIYI DIALECT OF IGBO date: 2019 words: 3437 flesch: 74 summary: a. church-synagogue b. buy-purchase c. conceal - hide d. chase – pursue In other words, synonyms are different words with identical or very similar meanings. It was observed that there are many synonymous words in Amaiyi dialect. keywords: examples; festschrift; honour; language; linguistics; meaning; synonyms; words cache: feschschrifts-206.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-206.txt item: #5 of 132 id: feschschrifts-207 author: Dogbey, Emmanuel title: EWE MAJOR STUDENTS’ COMMAND OVER COHESIVE DEVICES: COHESION AND COHERENCE IN THE NATIVE SPEAKERS’ CREATIVE WRITING ESSAYS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA date: 2019 words: 6431 flesch: 62 summary: Producing coherent, cohesive and well- organized writing pieces by L2 students are always very challenging because the rhetorical conventions of L2 texts such as the structure, organization, lexis and grammar differ from those in other languages (Forson, 2007). It is purposed to examine types of coherent and cohesive devices Ewe major students use in their essay writings. keywords: 3sg; coherence; cohesion; devices; english; essay; ewe; gali; knowledge; kple; language; sentences; students; studies; study; text; university; writing cache: feschschrifts-207.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-207.txt item: #6 of 132 id: feschschrifts-209 author: Enweonye, Chinedum; Nnadiri, Judith Anulika title: SATIRICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMENTS IN SOME SELECTED POEMS IN IJE ỤWA date: 2019 words: 2893 flesch: 71 summary: He emphatically states his view thus: Judging by his ideas, philosophical poem will then mean the poem that promotes the love of wisdom. Selected satirical poems in ije Ụwa - Agarachaa - Obodo Ọnịcha Selected philosophical poem in keywords: issues; life; people; poems; poet; satire; society; translation cache: feschschrifts-209.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-209.txt item: #7 of 132 id: feschschrifts-210 author: Nsolibe, Obiageli Theresa title: EJIMA OKWU ‘ELU NA ALA’ NA NZIPXTA HA N’AHA ND{ IGBO date: 2019 words: 5649 flesch: 94 summary: [ Igbo na-aba ma na-aza aha na-egos[ na Chukwu bx Chukwu na-akwxwa aka qtq, anagh[ emegide mmadx qbxla n’agbanyegh[ qnqdx qbxla onye ahx nq. {ma atx xd[ aha ahx bx: Q bx Chukwu bx ike mmadx nwere. keywords: aba; ahx; ala; aza; chukwu; d[ka; elu; eme; igbo; ihe; ma na; mmadx; na q; nke; okwu; onye cache: feschschrifts-210.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-210.txt item: #8 of 132 id: feschschrifts-211 author: Bisilki, Kwesi Abraham title: FOLKTALES AND GENDER AMONG THE BIKPAKPAAM ‘KONKOMBA’ OF GHANA date: 2019 words: 6621 flesch: 65 summary: As exemplified in the two (2) tales above, in addition to the one earlier on ‘how the broom now comes to be tied’, one sees a projection of male characters as kings or overlords in Bikpakpaam tales, so reflective of the power and leadership practicalities of the people. A keener curiosity arises when one comes to know that in the collection of Bikpakpaam tales used for this study, it is only one tale that portrays a female character in the fashion of a queen. keywords: bikpakpaam; folktales; gender; kikpokpan; king; language; man; mother; people; storytelling; studies; wife cache: feschschrifts-211.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-211.txt item: #9 of 132 id: feschschrifts-212 author: Okeke, Joy; Ogbobe, Gloria title: THE LEADERSHIP POSITION OF THE GIRL-CHILD AND THE NIGERIAN SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT date: 2019 words: 2937 flesch: 63 summary: Also, looking at the law of social justice which states that “the available means for the satisfaction of needs ought to be shared…” (Ryan, 1993: 120), one can rightly say also that family resources for educational upbringing of children be shared among all the children in the family irrespective of their gender status. In our contemporary Nigerian society, there are still some cultural groups who still prefer male children to female. keywords: child; development; family; gender; girl; language; women cache: feschschrifts-212.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-212.txt item: #10 of 132 id: feschschrifts-213 author: Odinye, Ifeoma title: WOMEN AND NATION BUILDING: A STUDY OF NGUGI AND MUGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI AND TESS ONWUEME’S TELL IT TO WOMEN date: 2019 words: 4715 flesch: 58 summary: Abstract This study examines the role of women in nation building as seen in Ngugi and Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and Tess Onwueme’s Tell it to Women. Her works (Efuru, One is Enough, Women are Different, Idu) portray women in a credible and realistic light. keywords: building; kimathi; nation; play; role; society; struggle; women cache: feschschrifts-213.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-213.txt item: #11 of 132 id: feschschrifts-214 author: ALOYSIUS, UMEODINKA; DANIEL, ILECHUKWU title: ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION: A CASE STUDY OF KOLA NUT BREAKING IN UMUCHU TOWN MEETING date: 2019 words: 4433 flesch: 68 summary: Once this is done, the plate of kola nut becomes the property of the entire Umuchu indigenes there present in the meeting, and it is subject to the traditional ways of kola nut breaking. This paper examines the Ethnography of Communication as it concerns the breaking of kola nut in Umuchu town general meeting. keywords: breaking; ezeuko; honour; igbo; kola; kola nut; nut; umuchu cache: feschschrifts-214.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-214.txt item: #12 of 132 id: feschschrifts-215 author: HANSON, ANIEFIOK IDARA title: THE CHALLENGES OF HISTORICAL OBJECTIVITY: HISTORY AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE PAST AND PRESENT date: 2019 words: 3948 flesch: 49 summary: Posthumous festschrift in honour of late professor R.O. Ezeuko, edited by Dr. Odinye, Egenti & Orji Posthumous festschrift in honour of late professor R.O. Ezeuko, edited by Dr. Odinye, Egenti & Orji 27 THE CHALLENGES OF HISTORICAL OBJECTIVITY: HISTORY AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE PAST AND PRESENT ANIEFIOK IDARA HANSON C. Department of History and International Studies Nnamdi Azikwe University, 2.0 Understanding the Nature of History and Objectivity in History A training in history is a training in analyzing, evaluating and interpreting both secondary and primary sources. keywords: facts; historian; history; knowledge; objectivity; past cache: feschschrifts-215.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-215.txt item: #13 of 132 id: feschschrifts-216 author: Chidimma, Egenti Martha; Orji, Dereck-M Akachukwu title: THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) date: 2019 words: 3030 flesch: 50 summary: Language technology which is sometimes referred to as human language technology includes: computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or modifying texts and speech. Language Technology – A first Overview in Survey of the state of the art in Human language technology by Ronald A-Cole, Joseph Mariam, Uszkoreit Hans, Zaenen Annie and Zue Victor (Ed.). keywords: analysis; computer; data; information; language; professor; technology; text cache: feschschrifts-216.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-216.txt item: #14 of 132 id: feschschrifts-217 author: Ekegbo, Rich title: POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS IN EXTERNL EXAMINATIONS: A HYDRA-HEADED PROBLEM date: 2019 words: 2926 flesch: 59 summary: However, education in Nigeria seems not to be pointing towards the realization of this or attaining the goal of education as can be seen from the indices of the dwindling academic performance of Nigerian students in West African Examination Council. And while it bemoans the poor performances of Nigerian students in WASSCE, it appreciates some of the reasons for the poor performances and proffers some solutions that if religiously applied, will help to redirect the problems associated with education in Nigerian society. keywords: education; government; nigeria; people; problem; students cache: feschschrifts-217.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-217.txt item: #15 of 132 id: feschschrifts-218 author: Okoye, Adaobi Ngozi title: PRONOUNS IN ETULO date: 2019 words: 2867 flesch: 61 summary: future marker remain the same and does not distinguish between number and person in the object forms of Etulo pronouns. Object pronouns are also consistent in their tone patterns when used in a sentence. keywords: ezeuko; person; professor; pronouns; r.o cache: feschschrifts-218.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-218.txt item: #16 of 132 id: feschschrifts-220 author: Meludu, Nkiru Ifeoma title: POEMS OF SAME TITLE IN SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES OF IGBO POETRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THEMES AND STYLES date: 2019 words: 5967 flesch: 59 summary: Looking at feminism and myth as they affect women writers, and posted on the internet by Mary Magoulick, she states as follows: Many feminists latch hopefully onto motifs in ancient myths that seem to indicate a possible past in which women had more agency, perhaps even a central role in society. Looking at the historical background, Dobie, (2012:103), traces the feminist movement back to the nineteenth century, though the modern attempt to look at literature through the Posthumous festschrift in honour of late professor R.O. Ezeuko, edited by Dr. Odinye, Egenti & Orji 73 feminist lens began to develop and operated on the assumption that women were inferior creatures. keywords: ezeuko; god; honour; literature; mythology; poems; poetry; professor; r.o; woman cache: feschschrifts-220.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-220.txt item: #17 of 132 id: feschschrifts-221 author: Chinenye, Olekaibe title: NRQ D{KA MGBAAMA N’EJIJE IGBO XFQDX: OBIDIYA, NWATA BULIE NNA YA ELU NA OGBU MMADX NDX NA-AGX date: 2019 words: 3429 flesch: 92 summary: Oge xfqdx o meghar[a xkwx ma q bx aka ya ma q bxkwanx welie qdx ya elu nke na-egosi ihe nd[ q na-eme n’ime nrq. bx ugwu eze (O teta, chakas[a anya, chqpxta na ya nq n’nrq) (ihu 59-60) Posthumous festschrift in honour of late professor R.O. Ezeuko, edited by Dr. Odinye, Egenti & Orji 5 Ka Iloka rqchara nrq, nwunye ya bx Ahxdiya rqkwara nrq nke ya. keywords: ahx; d[ka; ebe; eme; igbo; ihe; ike; mere; mmadx; nke; n’ime; onye; rqrq; site cache: feschschrifts-221.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-221.txt item: #18 of 132 id: feschschrifts-222 author: Chichi, Akidi Felista title: UFQDU AKAMGBA CHERE ASUSU IGBO date: 2019 words: 5438 flesch: 87 summary: Ka any[ jisie ike kwxs[ [sxrx nd[ mba qzq asxsx abxgh[ asxsx Igbo n’ala Igbo. Asxsx Igbo, ma olund[ ma Igbo izugbe nwere usoro nhazi d[ ka nghqta na omenala siri nabata. keywords: ahx; aka; anya; asxsx; bxla; eme; iche; igbo; ihe; ike; mmadx; niile; nke; n’ihi; onye; otu; qma; qzq; xfqdx cache: feschschrifts-222.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-222.txt item: #19 of 132 id: feschschrifts-223 author: Nwizu, Pauline; Onyemaechi, Chinyere title: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AND SONGS FOR EFFECTIVE TRANSMISSION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE date: 2019 words: 2597 flesch: 48 summary: Indigenous language therefore becomes a veritable tool for the transmission of indigenous knowledge which goes along with cultural and moral values. Owerri Abstract: Indigenous knowledge is native to a region hence environmentally based as well as orally transmitted. keywords: ezeuko; knowledge; language; lele; professor cache: feschschrifts-223.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-223.txt item: #20 of 132 id: feschschrifts-224 author: Festus, Onuegbu title: UN RESOLUTIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF SUBSIDIARY AGENCIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY date: 2019 words: 4726 flesch: 34 summary: Stone (2005) thus, contends that United Nations efforts towards disarmament would only be effective and enforceable when powerful and nuclear club nations will commit their loyalty to the process. 2.0 Theoretical Foundation For better understanding of the background and the rationale behind the emergence of the United Nations subsidiary agencies as international institutions, functionalist theoretical tool of analysis becomes most appropriately relevant framework. keywords: agencies; disarmament; human; international; nations; resolutions; rights; states; united; united nations cache: feschschrifts-224.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-224.txt item: #21 of 132 id: feschschrifts-226 author: Nebolisa, Oluchi title: THE IMAGE OF A POET FROM A LAYMAN’S PERSPECTIVE: A CASE STUDY OF IGBO SOCIETY date: 2019 words: 2720 flesch: 61 summary: The tribal traditional and religious ceremonies which are often celebrated in Igbo cultural milieu with poetic songs, chants and proverbs suggest that poetry existed in the earliest primitive Igbo society. Hence, the lives of heroes, kings and dead ancestors are eulogized through poetic songs. keywords: emotions; igbo; poetry; society; songs cache: feschschrifts-226.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-226.txt item: #22 of 132 id: feschschrifts-227 author: Uyanne, Chukwualuka Michael; Obi-Nwoye, Grace Chukwukaodialu title: THE SCIENCE OF CONTEXT IN LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE date: 2019 words: 3371 flesch: 47 summary: It also accounts for the investigation of how “language users interpret what other language users’ intent to convey” (Yule 3). Posthumous festschrift in honour of late professor R.O. Ezeuko, edited by Dr. Odinye, Egenti & Orji 164 Discursive and Linguistic Context Discourse analysis determines how people deduce meaning from the language they use, because language, social contexts and situations are tied together. keywords: analysis; chiluwa; competence; context; discourse; language; use cache: feschschrifts-227.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-227.txt item: #23 of 132 id: feschschrifts-228 author: Chukwunonso, Muotoo title: LE STYLE ET LA TECHNIQUE DE NARRATION D’AMINATA SOWFALL DANS DOUCEURS DU BERCAIL date: 2019 words: 2458 flesch: 74 summary: Ainsi, Douceurs du Bercail lui sert d’instrument pour critiquer le racisme, l’oppression et la violation des droits de l’homme. Elle s’intéresse beaucoup à la vie sociale et culturelle, et surtout l’évolution de la société vers ce qu’on appelle le modernisme. keywords: bercail; dans; des; douceurs; elle; est; fall; les; pour; qui; sow; style; une cache: feschschrifts-228.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-228.txt item: #24 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2367 author: Abonyi, A.U. title: A Study of the Implied Abortion Laws of Imo and Anambra States, under Dr. Chris Ngige and Rochas Okorocha Regimes date: 2022 words: 5 flesch: 66 summary: CamScanner 04-10-2022 14.08 keywords: camscanner cache: feschschrifts-2367.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2367.txt item: #25 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2697 author: NWAMARA, Alvan-Ikoku O. title: THE VOYAGE OF DOREMI: An Opera by Alvan-Ikoku O. NWAMARA date: 2022 words: 1646 flesch: 81 summary: Mr. Reti is seated in his moderately furnished sitting room. TWO In Mr. Reti’s Sitting Room (Morning sunlight effect) Mr. Reti moves into the sitting room with his wife who is carrying a small radio receiver, a toothbrush and a small bowl containing a glass of water. keywords: ikoku; opera alvan; voyage cache: feschschrifts-2697.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2697.txt item: #26 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2768 author: Odinye, Sunny Ifeanyi title: LANGUAGES MATTER: CHINESE LANGUAGE MATTERS NOW date: 2018 words: 1768 flesch: 65 summary: It is said that 21st century belongs to China and that makes the learning of Chinese language a very important matter now. Considering what makes a language world language, Chinese language will soon assume the status of a global language. keywords: china; chinese; language; world cache: feschschrifts-2768.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2768.txt item: #27 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2777 author: Odinye, Sunny Ifeanyi title: THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF LOCAL LANGUAGES IN NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY date: 2021 words: 2531 flesch: 50 summary: Local languages play a vital role in a democratic nation. This paper stresses the importance of Local languages as an indispensable means of democracy. keywords: democracy; government; language; nigeria; people cache: feschschrifts-2777.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2777.txt item: #28 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2778 author: Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne; Odinye, Ifeanyi Sunny title: A COMPARISON OF THE CONCEPTS, MOTIVES AND EFFECTS OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM ON NIGERIA AND CHINA date: 2022 words: 5111 flesch: 44 summary: Furthermore, by analyzing the impacts and reasons of Western imperialism on China and Nigeria, one can easily see that economic values, trade and political influence were the main key factors that propelled the late modern period western imperialism in these two countries. Western imperialism has economic, political and cultural effects on different societies based on the extent of western influence. keywords: british; china; chinese; effects; imperialism; influence; nigeria; odinye; trade cache: feschschrifts-2778.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2778.txt item: #29 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2779 author: Odinye, Ifeanyi Sunny; Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne title: MULTILINGUALISM, NATIONAL AND OFFICIAL LANGUAGES IN NIGERIA AND INDIA date: 2012 words: 5981 flesch: 50 summary: National language and Official language The concept of national and official languages is used interchangeably in some countries, hence their definitions are confusing. In this paper, we are going to set a background for the study, define multilingualism, national language and official language, then list the recognized indigenous languages in Nigeria and India, discuss national and official languages in Nigeria and India, and finally draw a conclusion. keywords: arts; azikiwe; country; education; english; faculty; federal; government; india; international; languages; multilingualism; naga; nigeria; nnamdi; odinye; official; page; people; republic; university; world cache: feschschrifts-2779.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2779.txt item: #30 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2780 author: Odinye, Ifeanyi; Odinye, Ifeoma title: E-LEARNING AND HIGHER INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA date: 2012 words: 2291 flesch: 50 summary: The applications and process of e-learning include computer-based learning, web-based learning, virtual classroom and digital collaboration where contents is delivered via the internet, intranet/extranet, audio and or video tapes, satellite Tv and CD-ROM (Islam, 1997). E-learning is a broader concept (than online learning), encompassing a wide set of applications and processes which use all available electronic media to deliver vocational education and training more flexibly (Australian National Training Authority, 2003). keywords: education; institutions; internet; learning; nigeria cache: feschschrifts-2780.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2780.txt item: #31 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2781 author: Odinye, Ifeoma; Odinye, Ifeanyi title: THE EFFECTS AND IMPACTS OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM ON CHINA & NIGERIA date: 2012 words: 3107 flesch: 49 summary: Many Nigerian scholars believe that the role played by western missionaries in the pre-colonial days of Nigeria is very explicit and must be a major concern to those who are colonized. Many Chinese citizens believed that, the Christian missionaries were an ideological arm of foreign aggression and that was why they called the Europeans “barbarians” who had come to destroy their rich traditional culture. keywords: british; china; chinese; imperialism; missionaries; nigeria cache: feschschrifts-2781.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2781.txt item: #32 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2782 author: Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne; Odinye, Ifeanyi Sunny title: GENDER, FEMINISM AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY date: 2012 words: 2702 flesch: 50 summary: Cambridge, (2006) “Women, Property and the Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China: Gender, Mongols and Confucian Ideals”.2006. Feminist researchers have convincingly insisted that gender is socially constructed because of the general image of women as docile, complaint and oppressed by the patriarchal family. keywords: china; chinese; family; gender; odinye; society; women cache: feschschrifts-2782.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2782.txt item: #33 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2783 author: Odinye, Ifeanyi Sunny; Odinye, Ifeoma Ezinne title: GLOBALIZATION, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND MULTILINGUAL NIGERIA date: 2012 words: 2496 flesch: 45 summary: Email:ifeomaodinye@gmail.com Abstract Globalization, in relation to language, portends “a global common language” which offers unprecedented possibilities for mutual understanding and thus enables us to find fresh opportunities for international co-operation (Crystal, 1999). The spread of international languages like English, French, Chinese, etc as language of political and economic strength attracts the non speakers of these languages to learn to speak them. keywords: english; globalization; language; multilingualism; nigeria; odinye cache: feschschrifts-2783.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2783.txt item: #34 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2784 author: Odinye, Sunny Ifeanyi title: SMS LANGUAGES IN USE BY THE NIGERIAN STUDENTS date: 2015 words: 3661 flesch: 68 summary: The arrival of printing, wireless telegraphy, telephony, broadcasting, and the internet all pulled language and languages in fresh directions, introducing new standards and styles. The use of pictograms, logograms and symbols in SMS/Text language are now present in many languages. keywords: language; messaging; mobile; odinye; professor; sms; students; text; use cache: feschschrifts-2784.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2784.txt item: #35 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2851 author: Chima, Ezinne Agwuama title: Grice’s Cooperative Maxims and Implicatures in Advertisement Taglines of Selected Products in the Nigerian Malls date: 2022 words: 2929 flesch: 56 summary: Levinson (1983,p.126-129), notes “that there are two types of conversational implicatures based on Grice’s theory, they are generalized and particularized conversational implicature”. Above all, Grice asserts that conversational implicatures can be worked out via world knowledge, the linguistic and extra linguistic context of the utterance, general background information, and the Cooperative Principles (CP) of conversation. keywords: advertisement; grice; implicature; maxims; product cache: feschschrifts-2851.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2851.txt item: #36 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2852 author: Uyanne, Michael; Onebunne, Lucky; Ajemba, Ozioma title: Subtextuality of Narrative in the Faction of Uche Nnyagu's Dear Mother date: 2022 words: 5297 flesch: 53 summary: This implies that apart from being one code among many a culture which may be used “for endowing experience meaning, narrative is a metacode, a human universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature of shared reality can be transmitted” (White, 1980, p. 6). So, Halliday (2003, p.118) avers that the processes which encode the meanings of thinking, feeling or perceiving are mental process. keywords: context; experience; language; meaning; narrative; participant; process; processes; text cache: feschschrifts-2852.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2852.txt item: #37 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2853 author: Eburuaja, Chiagozie title: New Media Discourse Analysis: A Text Linguistic Analysis of Facebook Posts on the Russia-Ukraine War date: 2022 words: 3822 flesch: 50 summary: Likewise, language use in new media discourse resembles writing. Critical discourse analysis, power and new media discourse. keywords: discourse; facebook; media; new; post; relevance; russia; text; ukraine cache: feschschrifts-2853.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2853.txt item: #38 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2854 author: Udoh, Chinwe; Ejiaso, Vivian title: A Gricean Analysis of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Channels TV Interview date: 2022 words: 7446 flesch: 51 summary: The participant in an interlocution does not deliberately want to flout the maxim but maxims are flouted in everyday conversation (Ezeifeka 2018,p.81) because flouting maxims happens when a speaker intentionally exploits cooperative maxims in the assumption that the hearer can decipher the underlying meaning in the discourse. The non- observance of maxims could manifest in these forms: violation of maxim, flouting maxims, opting out of a maxim, infringing maxim and suspending maxim. keywords: analysis; conversation; discourse; information; maxim; pmb; president; principle; question; speaker cache: feschschrifts-2854.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2854.txt item: #39 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2855 author: Njoku, Juliana title: Language as a Change Agent and a Tool for Tackling Insecurity in Nigeria date: 2022 words: 4249 flesch: 53 summary: The sociolinguistic component refers to the knowledge of socio-cultural code of language use; which entails what to speak, when to speak, how to speak and to whom. The negative or positive response to the act of communication depends greatly on language use. keywords: change; communication; competence; country; insecurity; language; nigeria; paper; people; use cache: feschschrifts-2855.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2855.txt item: #40 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2856 author: Ovu, Basil F.; Anyanwu, Queen E. title: Trends in Sentence Meaning: A Conceptual Review date: 2022 words: 5191 flesch: 58 summary: The concludes that sentence meanings depend on how lexical items in a sentence are organised and the relative interpretations that speakers of the language assign to them, any disparity between speakers or a writer’s intention and what the listener or reader interprets the expression to be, will be a breakdown in communication. Aside from the above instances of ambiguity, scholars have identified cases of structural ambiguity which also relate to sentence meaning as illustrated below: (28) keywords: ambiguity; expression; items; language; meaning; ndimele; ovu; sentence; words cache: feschschrifts-2856.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2856.txt item: #41 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2857 author: Obodo, Comfort title: Conversion/Functional Shift: An Indispensable Tool for Creativity in English language and Literature date: 2022 words: 4129 flesch: 75 summary: Creativity of Functional Shift Creativity may have other senses but for this study it is meant to portray English language users’ ability to manipulate English words skilfully in such a way that they reflect the users’ intended meaning at least possible cost and at the right circumstance. Not only that, they tend to fit in, in the grammatical structure of the language; so much so that even the native speakers hardly see it as an ungrammatical usage of English words. keywords: adjective; creativity; english; language; noun; round; shift; verb; word cache: feschschrifts-2857.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2857.txt item: #42 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2858 author: Okenmuo, Amarachi title: Variant Pronunciation Patterns of Selected English Content Words in Connected Speech by Anambra State English Language Teachers date: 2022 words: 4143 flesch: 60 summary: 13(26%) 11(22%) 7 Carry (verb) 'kæri 2 i)'ka'ri ii) 'kari 33(66%) 17(34%) i)kari ii) keri 39(78%) 11(22%) 8 Correctly (adverb) kə'rekt.li 3 i)kɔ:'rek'tli : ii)kɒ'rek.tli : 37(74%) Data Analysis and Discussion Table 1: Pronunciation Patterns of Selected English WordsinthePassage S/No English word/ SBE pronunciatio No of syllab ASELT’s stress No and % of ASELT’s phoneme No and % Word class n les in a word placement Stress placemen t of ASELT realisation of Phonem e realisati on by ASELT 1 Doing (verb) 'du:ɪŋ 2 i)'du:'i:ŋ ii)'du:ɪŋ 41(82%) 9(18%) keywords: english; language; sbe; second; stress; syllable; teachers; word cache: feschschrifts-2858.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2858.txt item: #43 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2859 author: Joseph, Ojonugwa title: Sociophonetic Investigation of Speech Perception among Students of Rivers State University, Unkpolu, Port Harcourt date: 2022 words: 4700 flesch: 48 summary: Sociophonetic Investigation of Speech Perception among Students of Rivers State University, Unkpolu, Port Harcourt Ojonugwa Joseph Abstract This study was carried out to probe listeners’ use of sociophonetic details in speech perception. Many sociolinguistic studies, especially instrumental studies, have succeeded in divorcing speech production from speech perception. keywords: dialect; listeners; perception; production; social; sounds; speaker; speech; variation cache: feschschrifts-2859.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2859.txt item: #44 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2860 author: Uchechukwu, Purity Ada title: Linguistic cohabitation of Spanish and English in the United States date: 2022 words: 2776 flesch: 50 summary: Uchechukwu Abstract The study of speech communities characterized by language contact has been a major goal of modern sociolinguistics. That the coexistence with English gives rise to linguistic outcomes such as code-switching, and transference at all linguistic levels is not peculiar to Spanish alone, but presents a general feature of the different linguistic outcomes of language contact. keywords: contact; english; language; spanish; sps; states; united; ussp; verb cache: feschschrifts-2860.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2860.txt item: #45 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2861 author: Chinyeaka, Lauretta title: Speech Style-Shifts in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus date: 2022 words: 7992 flesch: 63 summary: Speech Style-Shifts in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Lauretta Chinyeaka Abstract The focus of this paper is on the use of speech style shifts by interactants in dialogues. Key words: speech styles, style-shifting, speech event, social distance, power Introduction There is usually a display of shifts in the style of speeches of characters engaged in dialogues in written prose just as there are between interlocutors in face - to - face interactions on different occasions. keywords: amaka; aunty; excerpt; father; ifeoma; interaction; shifts; situation; speech style; style shift cache: feschschrifts-2861.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2861.txt item: #46 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2862 author: Nwosu, Chigozie title: Language Choice and the Eroding of Cultural Identity among Nigerian Facebook Users date: 2022 words: 4633 flesch: 58 summary: Keywords: language, culture, cultural identity, African cultural values, linguistic relativity Introduction Language is the principal means by which we conduct our social lives. African cultures have been at the receiving end of this cultural imperialism. keywords: african; comments; culture; facebook; group; identity; language; people; post; society; values cache: feschschrifts-2862.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2862.txt item: #47 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2863 author: Nweke, Adaorah title: Emerging Trends in Nigerian Pidgin: A Nigerian Hip-Hop Perspective in Post Covid-19 Nigeria date: 2022 words: 8575 flesch: 68 summary: For instance if a Cameroonian has no understanding of Nigerian Pidgin and comes in contact with a Nigerian in trade, they will certainly produce another version of Pidgin language that is neither Nigerian or Cameroonian. The likes of Nigerian Hip-hop artistes that rendered their songs in Nigerian Pidgin English are Tuface Idibia, Nigga Raw, Timaya, P’Square, Falz, Black face, D’banj, Faze, etc. keywords: african; artistes; contact; english; hip; hop; language; lines; means; music; new; nigerian; nigerian pidgin; people; pidgin; pidgin language; songs; speakers; trade; use; words cache: feschschrifts-2863.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2863.txt item: #48 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2865 author: Ezechukwu, Afam title: Sociolinguistic Significance of Names in Igbo Culture: The Umuchu Example date: 2022 words: 4730 flesch: 66 summary: The researcher finds that names children bear are as a reflection of their parents’ thought and life’s pains. This study examines Umuchu names from ancient to present to ascertain the extent the names have changed because of Western or European influence. keywords: bearer; child; god; igbo; interpretation; life; names; parents; people; umuchu cache: feschschrifts-2865.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2865.txt item: #49 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2866 author: Ikechukwu, Grace; Ezeh, Chinwe title: Shades of Intimidation in Language Use: A Study of Selected Nigerian Film date: 2022 words: 3654 flesch: 58 summary: Against this backdrop, this paper explicates some shades of language intimidation using a Nollywood film titled The Village Bride. A limited number of studies have investigated language intimidation using movie paradigm. keywords: class; ekwutosi; english; exclusion; intimidation; language; society cache: feschschrifts-2866.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2866.txt item: #50 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2867 author: Igwedibia, Adaoma; Olughu, Michael title: Women’s Identities and Subjectivity of Self in Lesley Nneka Arimah’s ‘What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky’ date: 2022 words: 7551 flesch: 59 summary: This paper concludes that Arimah, as a new feminist voice in the corpus of African literature, has, through this debut collection, added fresh insights to the identities of African women with vistas of underlying issues for critical engagements among feminist critics and writers. In this regard, Molly Chiluwa submits that, “for an African feminist, forms of women oppression are peculiar to their individual societies and cultural milieus…those theories [of African orientation] pitch the African philosophy galaxy as their world view … borne out of the urge for African women to articulate their brand of marginalization and experience that differ in many ways from those of Western women” (103- 104). keywords: ada; african; arimah; father; female; feminist; girl; identities; man; mother; narrator; school; society; story; women cache: feschschrifts-2867.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2867.txt item: #51 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2868 author: Okpala, Ebele title: The Sense in the Snail Sense Feminism: A Study of Ifeoma Okoye’s “A Strange Disease” and “From Wife to Concubine” date: 2022 words: 5335 flesch: 66 summary: Women may imitate this wise, sensitive, resilient and determined creature to be able to survive in a society that devalues women. Women in Patriarchal Societies Justina Okoye, in her review of different types of gender violence and their impact on women, observes that patriarchy uses violence against women as a legal tool to subjugate women and uphold men’s dominance over them. keywords: enu; ezeigbo; female; feminism; husband; man; onumba; sense; snail; society; wife; women cache: feschschrifts-2868.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2868.txt item: #52 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2869 author: Eze, Orji title: Traditional Laws and Feminist Trajectory in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions date: 2022 words: 12064 flesch: 51 summary: She illustrates the nuisances of colonialism and colonial ideologies that are not favourable to African women. Returning to Zimbabwe with her degree, Maiguru pursues teaching, almost the only profession open to African women outside domestic service. keywords: african; babamukuru; colonial; conditions; dangarembga; education; family; female; gender; laws; novel; nyasha; oppression; patriarchal; shona; society; tambu; trauma; women; world cache: feschschrifts-2869.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2869.txt item: #53 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2870 author: Nwaenyi, Chinyelu title: Insult Terms against Women in Nollywood Movies date: 2022 words: 5203 flesch: 64 summary: Abstract This descriptive study tries to explore insult terms against women to investigate how these insult terms represent women in the selected Nollywood movies using Sara Mills’ Feminist Stylistics (1995) approach. The findings revealed that insult terms against women are common in Nollywood movies. keywords: characters; insult; insult terms; language; movies; nollywood; study; terms; women; words cache: feschschrifts-2870.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2870.txt item: #54 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2871 author: Anyachebelu, Ijeoma title: Religion, Trauma and the Index of ‘Madness’ in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile date: 2022 words: 4824 flesch: 68 summary: In line with this view, Ayo Kehinde avers that, ‘to a great extent, African women are relegated to the background in the social, political and economic arenas of their societies’ (169). To him, African women are, ‘. . . relegated to a position from which they function as mere appendages to men’ (169). keywords: african; god; mayor; men; pain; religion; trauma; woman; zakeya; zeinab cache: feschschrifts-2871.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2871.txt item: #55 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2872 author: Ihueze, Adaobi title: Trauma behind Closed Doors in While Men Slept date: 2022 words: 2349 flesch: 63 summary: Keywords: Trauma, Betrayal Trauma, Romantic trauma, patriarchal, abuse relationship Introduction The restlessness of African women today, as well as their skepticism about their status in society is direct repercussions of years of oppression. It was observed from the analysis that social ideals encourage activities that demean and traumatize women. keywords: betrayal; husband; self; trauma; women cache: feschschrifts-2872.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2872.txt item: #56 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2873 author: Ozoh, Ngozi title: Catholicon of Marriages: What if …? by Linda Jummai Mustafa date: 2022 words: 3772 flesch: 67 summary: She got married quite early and her husband keeps maltreating her, according to Child Marriage briefing: Overview of Child marriage’ there is every possibility that child marriage increases the issues of HIV. keywords: amos; husband; marriage; mustafa; trauma; violence; women cache: feschschrifts-2873.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2873.txt item: #57 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2874 author: Akabuike, Ifeoma title: Ideational Representation of Domestic Violence in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus date: 2022 words: 4580 flesch: 53 summary: In these process types and in the overall excerpts, materials processes are noticeably topping the list with an aggregate number of twenty four (24) out of fifty (50) processes representing 48% of the overall process types recorded in the novels under study. The result shows the domination of material process in the novels. keywords: actor; cir; location; material; novels; process; study; violence cache: feschschrifts-2874.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2874.txt item: #58 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2875 author: Okolo, Luke title: Of Patriarchy, Gender, Paradox and Inference: A Feminist Import in Amma Darko’s Faceless date: 2022 words: 5696 flesch: 61 summary: So other indigent women submit to the same survival instinct. In Faceless, Amma Darko gives makes some inferential statement about the plight of African women. keywords: baby; children; fofo; gender; male; man; onko; poison; tsuru; women cache: feschschrifts-2875.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2875.txt item: #59 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2876 author: Akwanya, Amechi title: ‘Steamed into Well-Done Mutton’: The Solar Plague and Discursive Formation in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah date: 2022 words: 7565 flesch: 63 summary: This paper is located within discourse studies, but in the specific aspect of discursive formations. Keywords: apocalypse, estate of world literature, discourse analysis, discursive formation, tradition Introduction It is helpful in a discourse analysis of texts to ascertain the discursive formation to avoid treating texts and discourses as if they were all the same kind and obey the same identical laws. keywords: achebe; anthills; art; chris; discourse; end; formation; general; ikem; language; literature; narrative; savannah; work cache: feschschrifts-2876.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2876.txt item: #60 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2877 author: Ile, Onyebuchi; Chinedu, Buchi title: Soji Cole’s Embers and Its Implications for Critical Thinking and Development date: 2023 words: 5666 flesch: 56 summary: Critical thinking itself trains minds towards solving problem and the ability to solve the problems that life presents is the key to success, according Robert Harris. To demonstrate this, Bobkina and Stefanova’s four-stage model, Situated Practice Stage, The Overt Instruction Stage, The Critical Framing Stage and Transformed Practice Stage, of using fiction to teach critical thinking were used. keywords: boko; haram; ideas; nigeria; order; skills; stage; students; text; thinking cache: feschschrifts-2877.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2877.txt item: #61 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2878 author: Oaikhena, Abigail title: Discussing Insurgency in Nigeria: A Study of Tracia Adaobi Nwabani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree date: 2022 words: 3511 flesch: 60 summary: Conclusion From the foregoing, it is obvious that the actions of Boko Haram insurgency have really hindered the communal existence of Nigeria and decreased her economic prosperity. A man who only talks whenever he is seeing Boko Haram videos defeating Nigeria troops in his laptop which make him to shout praises to Allah. keywords: boko; boko haram; group; haram; new; nigeria; state; violence cache: feschschrifts-2878.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2878.txt item: #62 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2879 author: Okoronkwo-Chukwu, Udo title: The Role of Food and the Politics of Belonging in Alain Mabanckou’sBlue White Red date: 2022 words: 6957 flesch: 56 summary: The African market not only represents the link to African cultural food but establishes a larger community for other African nationals to transact their businesses. Such Congolese food items as manioc leaves, foufou and smoked fish like the Igbo kola nut are potent symbol of African food culture. keywords: african; congolese; food; food places; france; identity; mabanckou; market; massala; migrants; migration; moki; paris; places; red; white cache: feschschrifts-2879.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2879.txt item: #63 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2880 author: Asika, Ikechukwu; Asika, Chisom title: Through the Prism of History: Ecological Re-reading of Wale Okediran’s after the Flood date: 2022 words: 6544 flesch: 64 summary: Men were making advances on the ladies; lovers were hooking up for the night as Ogunpa river floods the city. First published in 2003, reprinted in 2004, 2008, and revised in 2012, the novel, After the Flood is set against the background of death and destruction wrought by Ogunpa flood disaster. keywords: city; environment; flood; government; literature; novel; ogunpa; ogunpa river; okediran; river; sade; stanley cache: feschschrifts-2880.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2880.txt item: #64 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2881 author: Ulogu, Ngozi Dora; Okpalike, Chika title: The Dialectics of Elitist Leadership in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People and Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautiful Ones are not Yet Born date: 2022 words: 5396 flesch: 54 summary: This exclusion and intimidation of the majority in the affairs concerning them present serious problems in political leadership. Hence, the thesis of this paper, the “Being”, is the fact of elitist political leadership in Nigeria and Ghana, and other African countries. keywords: achebe; armah; chief; corruption; koomson; leadership; man; nanga; ones; people; power cache: feschschrifts-2881.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2881.txt item: #65 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2882 author: Iwunze, Davidson Chimezie title: Ethical Apprehensions and the Pedagogic Millstone in Camillus Uka’s When the Wind Blows date: 2022 words: 4658 flesch: 51 summary: Ethical Apprehensions and the Pedagogic Millstone in Camillus Uka’sWhen the Wind Blows Iwunze Davidson Chimezie Abstract Among the numerous novels that inaugurate examination malpractice as a major malaise currently devastating the educational sphere and its multifaceted implications within the socio- political cum economical spaces of post-colonial Nigeria, Camillus Uka’s When the Wind Blows stands out prominently. In narrowing this gap, while relying on the ethical theory of Utilitarianism by Jeremy Bentham which contemplates an individual’s action in relation to the pleasure or pain it imparts on the aggregate number of people involved, this paper contends that Uka’s When the Wind Blows provokes not only some ethical apprehensions that demand exigent response but also underscores the dire sensationalism of examination malpractice and its attendant consequences on the lives of individuals and society as well. keywords: adaku; author; education; examination; malpractice; nigeria; novel; poverty; society; wind cache: feschschrifts-2882.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2882.txt item: #66 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2883 author: Onyeachulam, Sylvanus title: Politics and Leadership Challenges in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel date: 2022 words: 4643 flesch: 59 summary: Lomba himself takes a job, writing for The Dial, for which he occasionally reports on political demonstrations, one of them a demonstration in which people peacefully protest the neglect of their neighbourhood. It tells the story of the sufferings, pains an disappointments of the people personalized in the major character Lomba, a young brilliant journalist though a school dropout. keywords: angel; habila; literature; lomba; military; novel; people; poverty; society; street cache: feschschrifts-2883.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2883.txt item: #67 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2884 author: Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Chinua title: Representations of Pasts and Memories: Critical Analysis of Selected Poems of Taiye Ojo date: 2022 words: 2796 flesch: 71 summary: Representations of Pasts and Memories: Critical Analysis of Selected Poems of Taiye Ojo Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto Abstract Pasts and memories bear a large significance in the growing Nigerian poetry. This paper critically analyzes the representations and interrelations of pasts and memories in selected poems in Taiye Ojo’s all of us are birds & some of us have broken wings and how the pasts and memories add to (re)defining the poet’s understanding of his environment and experiences. keywords: collection; memories; ojo; pasts; poem; poet; war cache: feschschrifts-2884.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2884.txt item: #68 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2885 author: Akujobi, Odochi S.; Ike, Chidimma B. title: Contemporary Issues on Colonial Border Cultures date: 2022 words: 3705 flesch: 46 summary: The major fact is that any form of colonial border literature has to connect the effect of colonial borders on the lives of people as represented in literary texts. Most times, people of same cultures and languages find themselves in different countries and are hindered from interacting with their kins in other countries as a result of the imposition of colonial boundaries. keywords: border; boundaries; colonial; colonialism; countries; culture; migration; people cache: feschschrifts-2885.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2885.txt item: #69 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2886 author: Asika, Ikechukwu title: The Other Side of a Polluted Coin: White Expatriates in Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away date: 2022 words: 7028 flesch: 68 summary: Recall that Ibinaebi’s encounter with Plato, his sudden disappearance did not only usher physical pain, but deep psychological trauma which thwarted both the dreams of a mother and daughter as Laye’s search for her father led her to Sergio, which proved another devastating experience in the hands of the white expatriates in Niger Delta region. Watson is bent on changing the narrative and proving that the inevitable encounter between the white expatriates and the female folk in Niger Delta could be anything but beautiful, fulfilling, blissful, and romantic capable of a happy ending that is typical of many love stories as it is the case with Dan and Timi in the novel. keywords: blessing; dan; delta; expatriates; ezikiel; niger; niger delta; oil; region; sunbirds; timi; women cache: feschschrifts-2886.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2886.txt item: #70 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2887 author: Asigbo, Alex title: Still Heart date: 2022 words: 1444 flesch: 82 summary: And it happened that on a certain day in a certain month at the University of Port Harcourt in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, The Circle came together to deliberate. And there and then, The Circle initiated a ritual. keywords: circle; day; death cache: feschschrifts-2887.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2887.txt item: #71 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2888 author: Ugochukwu, Chinweude N. title: The Place of Igbo Oral Literature in Rekindling Igbo Values: A Semantic Approach date: 2022 words: 4684 flesch: 67 summary: Igbo children tend to embrace western values in place of Igbo values hence the need for rekindling of Igbo values. This paper argues for the need to rekindle Igbo values through the use of Igbo oral literature. keywords: igbo; language; life; literature; oral; ring; values; woman cache: feschschrifts-2888.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2888.txt item: #72 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2889 author: Udemmadu, Thecla; Akpulu, Juliana title: Exchange Structure and Topic Development in Selected Igbo Phone-in Media Programmes date: 2022 words: 6109 flesch: 71 summary: This would avail Igbo listeners of the opportunity to participate in such programmes in their indigenous language. Bloor and Bloor (2007, p. 107) add that one of the attributes of power is some degree of control over input to a discourse which is topic control. keywords: act; caller; discourse; pair; phone; presenter; programme; structure; taking; topic; turn cache: feschschrifts-2889.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2889.txt item: #73 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2890 author: Akporokah, Omonigho Josephine title: Tech-Proficiency and Utilization of Web-Based Teaching System among English and Linguistics Lecturers of State Universities in South-South Region of Nigeria date: 2022 words: 5949 flesch: 44 summary: Furthermore, extensive literature search revealed a paucity in literature on the WBTTutilization and Tech-Proficiency of Nigeria university lecturers. The Tech-Proficiency of English and Literary Studies Lecturers Table 3: Analysis ofWBTTTech-Proficiency of English and Literary Studies Lecturers S/N o How efficient can you perform the following task very efficient moderately efficient not efficient 1 conducting online class zoom, Microsoft team etc. 7(6.7%) 16(15.2%) 82(78.1 %) 2 creation of a very good interactive power point slides 25(23.8%) 31(29.5%) 49(46.7 %) 3 creation of video lessons using OBS, Canva etc 1(1%) 4(3.8%) 100(95.2 %) 4 supervise students through google document 12(11.4%) 27(25.7) 66(62.9 %) 5 receive and score students assignment through Microsoft team 18(17.1%) 38(36.2%) 49(46.7 %) 6 received and reply students assignment through email 45(42.9%) 57(54.3%) 3(2.6%) 7 teach through WhatsApp 25(23.8%) 37(35.2%) 43(41.0 %) 8 creation of online survey 2(1.9%) 17(16.2%) 86(81.9 %) keywords: education; learning; lecturers; proficiency; state; students; study; teaching; tools; university; utilization; wbtt; web cache: feschschrifts-2890.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2890.txt item: #74 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2891 author: Nwachukwu, Winifred; Umelo, Ngozi; Ikemelu, Agatha title: Teachers’ Level of Awareness in Using Wordle to Teach in Senior Secondary Schools in Owerri Municipal date: 2022 words: 3556 flesch: 57 summary: Vocabulary is generically referred to as the knowledge of words and word meanings, (Barannestri and Salvadin, 2011).Specifically, we use vocabulary to refer to the kind of words that students must know in order to read with comprehension (Kamil and Hiebert, 2005).Vocabulary is the most important component of language knowledge, being the best predictor of language performance; however, many students get to secondary school with a relatively small vocabulary, which prevents them from achieving their potential (Schmitt, 2008). Recommendation among others include that seminars and workshops should be organized for English language teachers on the use of Wordlein secondary schools. keywords: awareness; english; language; learning; teachers; teaching; vocabulary; wordle cache: feschschrifts-2891.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2891.txt item: #75 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2892 author: Nnajiofor, Osita title: How “Necessary Preoccupations” Can Enhance Curriculum Development in African Universities date: 2022 words: 5069 flesch: 45 summary: Okeja justifies this claim when he observes that “African universities all have traditional western courses and just one course titled African philosophy. African universities all have traditional western courses and with few courses in African philosophy. keywords: african; content; curriculum; development; education; need; philosophers; philosophy; universities; western cache: feschschrifts-2892.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2892.txt item: #76 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2898 author: Egole, John A. title: The Dramatic Witnessing of the Niger Delta Crisis: A Means to National Development date: 2022 words: 4766 flesch: 59 summary: This study is theoretically anchored on Eco Criticism and Marxism, as it tends to evaluate the activities of the oil companies operating in Niger Delta, and how these activities affect the human environment as well as the individuals whose livelihood largely depends on the survival of that environment and how they react to the exploitations they suffer. Key words: drama, Niger Delta, emergent literature, exploitation, witnessing. keywords: education; government; irobi; literature; niger delta; oil; people; region; society cache: feschschrifts-2898.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2898.txt item: #77 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2899 author: Nnyagu, Uche; Onunkwo, Benedette; Adunchezor, Ngozi title: Literature in the Contemporary Society, an Indispensable Tool Against the Spread of Coronavirus date: 2022 words: 5384 flesch: 59 summary: Literature writers use literature to educate the masses on the means of coronavirus spread and proffer solutions as well. (Wikipedia) Uche Nnyagu in Literature and the Literate, observes that literature creates empathy and understanding. keywords: covid-19; igbo; language; literature; society; spread; virus; world; writers cache: feschschrifts-2899.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2899.txt item: #78 of 132 id: feschschrifts-2900 author: Onuko, Theodora title: La traduction : un Vehicule Indispensable au Developpement Humain date: 2022 words: 3728 flesch: 50 summary: D’après Le dictionnaire Le Petit Robert de la langue française, Le fait de devenir mondial, de se répondre dans le monde entier… c’est le phénomène d’ouverture des économies nationales sur un marche mondial libéral, lie aux progrès des communications et des transports, à la libération des échanges, entrainant une interdépendance croissante des pays (1624). Afin de contourner les difficultés de la communication pour acquérir des informations plurilingues, on s’efforce de recourir à la traduction. keywords: ces; cette; communication; dans; des; développement; entre; est; informations; les; monde; par; pays; pour; que; qui; textes; traduction cache: feschschrifts-2900.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-2900.txt item: #79 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3115 author: Chibuzor Asogwa, Chidi Uzor, Chidiebere Onwuekwe & title: The Visual Arts and its Branches date: 2022 words: 2054 flesch: 55 summary: While visual art is further partitioned into Fine arts and design areas, liberal art is sub-categorized into performing and literary arts. The teaching of visual art is a process of developing the creative potential in students to make the students self-reliant. keywords: architecture; art; arts; form; onwuekwe; painting cache: feschschrifts-3115.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3115.txt item: #80 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3116 author: Vivian Okpalauba, Mary Emodi-Nnoruka & title: The language of Basic Design date: 2022 words: 2093 flesch: 66 summary: “basic design” on the other hand entails the fundamentals or insights into design areas, starting from scratch, with special focus on the application of the basic elements of design in terms of line, colour, shape, space, and form. Basic design is a careful arrangement of elements with or without forms which develops into a careful compositional arrangement of all the elements of design. keywords: art; design; elements; line cache: feschschrifts-3116.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3116.txt item: #81 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3117 author: Valentine Ani, Chidiebere Onwuekwe, Chika Chudi-Duru & title: Colour Studies: Theory and Practice date: 2022 words: 2999 flesch: 62 summary: Ngumah, Et Al (2013) states the importance of colour in design and painting as follows; • Colour increases the visual effect of any art form, it makes the work beautiful. In colour theory, colour harmony refers to aesthetically pleasing and harmonious colour combinations based on geometric relationships on the colour wheel (colours explained –an internet blog). keywords: colour; design; harmony; light; wheel cache: feschschrifts-3117.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3117.txt item: #82 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3118 author: Vivian Okpalauba, Mary Emodi-Nnoruka, Chika Chudi-Duru & title: Texture, Repeat Pattern System as Formal Elements of Design date: 2022 words: 2334 flesch: 59 summary: Ideelart (2017) - an internet blog, has observed that texture in art can be perceived in at least two ways: through touch (physical texture) and sight (visual texture). Physical texture gives an artwork a sense of object-ness. keywords: design; motifs; pattern; repeat; texture cache: feschschrifts-3118.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3118.txt item: #83 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3119 author: Mary Emodi-Nnoruka, Valentine Ani & title: Creativity, Children and the Classroom date: 2022 words: 3227 flesch: 60 summary: According to Robert Sternberg (2002), creativity is stated as follows; • Technological creativity or innovation • Entrepreneurial creativity or economic creativity • Artistic and cultural creativity. Creativity is of three types individual creativity, group creativity and organisational creativity (Mehtaa, Chandanib and Neerajac, 2014: 804). keywords: art; children; classroom; creativity; drama; ideas; learning; people cache: feschschrifts-3119.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3119.txt item: #84 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3120 author: Chijioke Asogwa, Uchechukwu Ezeemo, Valentine Ani & title: Drawing as a form of Two-dimensional Art date: 2022 words: 1081 flesch: 67 summary: Other forms of drawing are landscape drawing, seascape drawing, and cityscape drawing, Ngumah, Et Al (2013). New Directions in Drawing With the invention of graphic tablets, graphic tabs or digitizers, the art of drawing has advanced with many styles and techniques being experimented with by programmers and artists, respectively. keywords: art; drawing; figure; life cache: feschschrifts-3120.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3120.txt item: #85 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3121 author: Chidiebere Onwuekwe, Ayorinde S. Oluyemi, Chibuzor Asogwa & title: Types, Lettering and Layout date: 2022 words: 1680 flesch: 62 summary: A,B,C We should note that capital letters are referred to as uppercase while small letters are called lowercase. Small letters which are also known as lowercase are not of the same height as the capital letters. keywords: lettering; letters; types cache: feschschrifts-3121.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3121.txt item: #86 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3122 author: Chidiebere Onwuekwe, David T. Toluwani & title: The Basics of Basic Photography date: 2022 words: 6977 flesch: 52 summary: However, either joining the field as an amateur, intermediate or professional, there exists basic entry knowledge that every practitioner or hobbyist of the trade who loves to shoot on camera modes other than auto mode must possess. Many beginner photographers are using film cameras to develop their style and skills. keywords: aperture; basics; button; camera; exposure; image; lens; light; onwuekwe; photography; shutter; source; speed; subject; toluwani cache: feschschrifts-3122.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3122.txt item: #87 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3123 author: Obianuju Maria Aghanya, Chike Cosmas Aghanya & title: Ceramic Clay: Meaning, Preparation and Methods of Production date: 2022 words: 2730 flesch: 74 summary: However, clay is classified into two types; they are primary and secondary. This can be also seen as clay which has been transported from the site of the original parent rock. keywords: aghanya; clay; firing; kiln; water cache: feschschrifts-3123.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3123.txt item: #88 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3124 author: Vivian Okpalauba, Chika Chudi-Duru & title: Local Crafts and Indigenous Technology date: 2022 words: 4600 flesch: 62 summary: Therefore, the patterns of decoration of pottery at Afikpo in Ebonyi state are different from the patterns of pottery at Ilorin in Kwara State or Gwari in Niger State. Explore(2021) further mentions that Ladi Kwali the famous female Nigerian potter was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. The Hausa of Northern Nigeria have long been well known for their production of voluminous robes known as babban riga (Big clothing). keywords: carving; chudi; cloth; crafts; duru; materials; nigeria; okpalauba; pottery; source; weaving; wood cache: feschschrifts-3124.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3124.txt item: #89 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3125 author: Valentine Ani, Chidi Uzoh & title: Establishing the basic Art Making Tools and Materials date: 2022 words: 987 flesch: 58 summary: Various tools for the production of art shall be enunciated in various sub- categories. Ring out the shirt before tying (Schukei, 2016) Establishing the basic Art Making Tools and Materials 186 Assemblage An assemblage, extending the method initiated by the cubist painters, is a work of art made by fastening together cut or torn pieces of paper, clippings from newspapers, photographs, bits of cloth, fragments of wood, metal, or other such materials, shells or stones, or even objects such as knives and forks, chairs and tables, parts of dolls and mannequins, automobile fenders, steel boilers, and stuffed birds and animals (Seitz, 1961: 8). keywords: art; dye; materials; tools cache: feschschrifts-3125.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3125.txt item: #90 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3126 author: Okonkwo, Chinonyelum title: Other Tools, Materials and Some Processes for Drawing and Painting date: 2022 words: 2472 flesch: 72 summary: Another name for painting material is painting medium or media. The material used in painting includes; Graphite pencil, ink, charcoal, paper, pastel, watercolour, oil colour, acrylic colour. keywords: canvas; colour; materials; painting; tools cache: feschschrifts-3126.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3126.txt item: #91 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3127 author: Rita Dike, Uchechukwu J. Ezeemo & title: An Introduction to Textile Design date: 2022 words: 1104 flesch: 56 summary: An introduction to textile design 206 Woven Textile Design These are achieved during interlacing a vertical yarn (warp) and horizontal yarn(weft), woven textile designs are created by various types of looms, manual and mechanized or computerized Jacquard loom. An introduction to textile design 202 An Introduction to Textile Design Uchechukwu J. Ezeemo and Rita Dike Introduction When discussing textiles, one wonders about the meaning and its origin; the word ‘textile’ comes from the Latin adjective textilis, meaning ‘woven’ which itself from textus, the past participle of the verb textre, to weave. keywords: design; printing; process; textile cache: feschschrifts-3127.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3127.txt item: #92 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3176 author: Uka, Godwin Ogbu title: APPRECIATING AND VALUING DIVERSITY IN TEACHING VISUAL ARTS: GOALS AND METHODS date: 2022 words: 3100 flesch: 48 summary: New contemporary issues in the Visual Arts in Nigeria 1 CHAPTER 1 APPRECIATING AND VALUING DIVERSITY IN TEACHING VISUAL ARTS: GOALS AND METHODS Godwin Ogbu Uka Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Keywords: Teaching visual Arts, valuing diversity and appreciation, goals and methods Introduction The value of diversity and differences in the visual arts practice, research and education can best be experienced and appreciated by a clear understanding of what visual art means. keywords: art; arts; creativity; design; diversity; students cache: feschschrifts-3176.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3176.txt item: #93 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3177 author: Uka, Godwin Ogbu title: ART HISTORY AND CRITICISM: A NEW PERSPECTIVE date: 2022 words: 16751 flesch: 49 summary: It is very important because is one of the ways to recount stories of past events, Art history allows us to look back and understand how our civilization evolved over the Art History and Criticism: A New Perspective 10 centuries. Art history in the present time is considered the breakthrough of the global approach to art history within a broader historical, sociological, and institutional context. keywords: analysis; art; art criticism; art forms; art historian; art history; art objects; art works; artist; arts; designer; elements; events; new; nigeria; objects; perspective; qualities; sense; study; style; time; way; work; world cache: feschschrifts-3177.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3177.txt item: #94 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3178 author: Elizabeth O. Ogbu-Uka, Godwin Ogbu Uka & title: ART THERAPY: A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HEALING date: 2022 words: 2904 flesch: 39 summary: Art therapy is a specialized area of mental health that uses art materials and the creative process to explore emotion, reduce anxiety, increase self-esteem and resolve other psychological conflicts Visual expression has been used for healing throughout history, but art therapy did not emerge as a distinct profession until the 1940s. Art therapy integrates the fields of human development, visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, and other art forms), and the creative process with models of counselling and psychotherapy in this process. keywords: art; art therapy; healing; health; process; self; therapy cache: feschschrifts-3178.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3178.txt item: #95 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3179 author: Uka, Godwin Ogbu title: ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: GOALS AND METHODS date: 2022 words: 8519 flesch: 50 summary: The discussion stresses Contemporary issues in the Visual Arts in Nigeria 51 the importance and value of art research was discovered through critical reflection on research in the science and visual arts. Scientific research on the other hand is the systematic investigation of scientific theories and hypotheses ... such a method allows scientists to construct questions about observed phenomena, conduct experiments, and analyze results. keywords: art; artist; arts; data; design; information; knowledge; methods; paper; research; results; work cache: feschschrifts-3179.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3179.txt item: #96 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3180 author: Elizabeth O. Ogbu Uka, Godwin O. Uka & title: THE SOCIOLOGY OF VISUAL ARTS date: 2022 words: 12032 flesch: 48 summary: Art appreciation is focused on a study to better understand and analyze art while art criticism involves evaluating art works with formal assessment tools. Sociology of art studies in addition to works of art, deals with any other communal activity making art possible in the society, i.e. production, distribution, reception and consumption. keywords: analysis; art; art history; artist; arts; contemporary; culture; human; issues; objects; people; production; research; society; sociological; sociology; studies; study; theory; work cache: feschschrifts-3180.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3180.txt item: #97 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3181 author: Chidiebere O. Onwuekwe, Godwin O. Uka & title: THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRACTICE IN NIGERIAN DEVELOPMENT, VIS-À-VIS VISUA COMMUNICATION DESIGN date: 2022 words: 3779 flesch: 41 summary: This research paper discusses the role and contribution of industrial design in a developing economy Introduction Industrial design practice involves the application of design principles and techniques to the development of products and services that are aesthetically pleasing, functional, and user- centered. In addition, industrial design can help to address social and environmental issues by promoting sustainable practices and creating products that are accessible to people of all abilities. keywords: creativity; design; designers; development; innovation; new; nigeria; products cache: feschschrifts-3181.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3181.txt item: #98 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3182 author: Uka, Godwin O. title: ULI MOTIFS: IT’S AESTHETICS ON ARCHITECTURAL WALL DESIGN IN NIGERIA date: 2022 words: 3683 flesch: 51 summary: Visual art is the creation of images that can be seen by the eyes. Visual art also includes sculpting, painting, ceramics, graphics, photography, and other visual media. keywords: art; arts; design; motifs; nigeria; uli; works cache: feschschrifts-3182.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3182.txt item: #99 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3183 author: Uka, Godwin O. title: THE MAKING OF MEANING IN THE THE NSIBIDI VISUAL METHOD date: 2022 words: 4896 flesch: 54 summary: He now resides in the U.S.A Victors as among the exponent of this new innovation into indigenous traditional art form, began an exploration of Nsibidi traditional visual communication and writing system in Nigeria from which he has developed a style of drawing and graphics means of communication. Nsibidi as a symbol is important to visual communication design because it has been described as a fluid system of communication that has hundred of pictographic signs. keywords: artist; communication; design; form; nigeria; nsibidi; plate; signs; symbols; work cache: feschschrifts-3183.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3183.txt item: #100 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3184 author: Chidiebere O. Onwuekwe, Godwin O. Uka & title: INTEGRATING NEW TRENDS IN THE GRAPHIC DESIGN CURRICULUM IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES date: 2022 words: 3396 flesch: 41 summary: Challenges of Integrating new trends in graphic design Curricula Integrating new trends in graphic design curricula presents several challenges, as supported by the following references: • Interrogating Creativity and Innovation in Graphic Design Curriculum 124 CHAPTER 9 INTEGRATING NEW TRENDS IN THE GRAPHIC DESIGN CURRICULUM IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES Godwin O. Uka and Chidiebere O. Onwuekwe Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Abstract The field of graphic design is constantly evolving, with new trends and technologies emerging all the time. keywords: curriculum; design; education; graphic; nigeria; standards; trends cache: feschschrifts-3184.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3184.txt item: #101 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3185 author: Ikechukwu Anyaele, Godwin O. Uka & title: VISUAL POLLUTION IN THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT: SOURCES AND PREVENTION date: 2022 words: 3807 flesch: 38 summary: Visual pollution is a serious issue in our environment just like other aspects and can be prevented through the proper application of architectural graphics design resources. This research paper, therefore, addresses the sources and prevention of visual pollution in our environment. keywords: buildings; design; environment; graffiti; graphics; people; pollution; signs; urban; values cache: feschschrifts-3185.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3185.txt item: #102 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3186 author: Kasi Jockeil Ojike, Godwin O. Uka & title: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN GRAPHICS DESIGN CONCEPTS: CREATIVITY AND INDIGENOUS INNOVATION IN NIGERIA date: 2022 words: 3664 flesch: 44 summary: These works are richly characterized by dots, circles and other design elements characterized by linearity, dot, and geometric shapes mostly in perspective in producing creative expression in product design format. In the area of product design, prototypes of a variety of industrial goods are made out of POP, paper, clay, and similar media. keywords: creativity; design; designer; environment; exploration; innovation; new cache: feschschrifts-3186.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3186.txt item: #103 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3187 author: Chibuzo Asogwa, Godwin O. Uka, Chidiebere O. Onwuekwe & title: IMBIBING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION: A WAY OF ENHANCING SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOME NIGERIAN SECTORS date: 2022 words: 4095 flesch: 46 summary: In Nigeria, creativity is viewed by many as a thing for artists, thereby ignoring its vast potential that could be deployed to solve problems in other human fields such as medicine, food and nutrition, education, law, etc. This study focused on assessing the possibilities of creativity and innovation as vehicles for solving myriad problems in Nigeria such as corruption, ethnicity, underdevelopment, etc, using a creativity quadrat diagram developed by Getlein (2008), as a paradigm. keywords: corruption; creativity; design; development; ideas; innovation; new; nigeria; police; quadrat cache: feschschrifts-3187.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3187.txt item: #104 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3188 author: Elizabeth O. Ogbu Uka, Godwin O. Uka & title: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: A VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN APPROACH date: 2022 words: 3979 flesch: 46 summary: A VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN APPROACH Godwin O. Uka and Elizabeth O. Ogbu Uka Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Abstract This paper answered calls from scholars to attend to a research gap concerning the visual representation of climate change. Scholarly research has proven that climate change is a critical issue in most parts of the world. keywords: change; climate; climate change; communication; issue; people; visual; warming cache: feschschrifts-3188.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3188.txt item: #105 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3189 author: Kosisochukwu l. G. Uka, Godwin O. Uka, Elizabeth O. Ogbu Uka & title: CHILD CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF SKILL ACQUISITION date: 2022 words: 6016 flesch: 52 summary: Creativity also fosters mental growth in children by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas and new ways of thinking and problem. Creativity also fosters mental growth in children by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas and new ways of thinking and problem. keywords: art; children; creativity; design; development; ideas; innovation; new; process; research; thinking; world cache: feschschrifts-3189.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3189.txt item: #106 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3310 author: Chinyeaka, Lauretta Okwuchukwu title: THE STIPULATIONS FOR ENGLISH IN THE NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT date: 2013 words: 1449 flesch: 55 summary: The Humanities & Sustainable Development (2011) 520 THE STIPULATIONS FOR ENGLISH IN THE NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Lauretta Okwuchukwu Chinyeaka Department of English Language and Literature Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Email: lo.chinyeaka@unizik.edu.ng INTRODUCTION The dominant role played by the English language in Nigeria is undeniably a crucial one. It is a commonplace to find university graduates who speak and write very bad English (which some today categorize as Nigerian English). keywords: english; language; medium cache: feschschrifts-3310.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3310.txt item: #107 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3318 author: UZUEGBUNAM, EMMA title: INTERFACING BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS IN TEXTUAL CONTEXTS AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS date: 2023 words: 25442 flesch: 52 summary: In other words, irrespective of what value the Euro-Christian missionaries attached to the Bible, the indigenous African Christian congregation embraced it with a glorious sense of certification, a fact which also became central to indigenous African hermeneutics and theology, because you cannot separate a person’s interpretation of a thing from his attitude to it, and vice versa. Indigenous African hermeneutics therefore took on from this holistic embrace of the Bible and built up a wholesome theology which culminated into the restoration of the power and glory, not just of the scripture, but also, more importantly of the faith community that issued it. keywords: african; bible; biblical; christian; churches; colonial; context; context hermeneutics; era; fact; faith; god; hermeneutics; human; interface hermeneutics; interpretation; jesus; leaders; missionaries; models; nations; new; orthodox; people; point; society; socio; testament; text; theology; theology hermeneutics; world cache: feschschrifts-3318.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3318.txt item: #108 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3381 author: Ezeonwuka, Innocent-Franklyn Okwudilichukwu title: THE ULTIMATE ACCOUNT: A HISTORY OF AMESI PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT date: 2023 words: 41285 flesch: 60 summary: A little detail is infact needed at this juncture, to illustrate further – The Ultimate Account: A History of Amesi People from the Earliest Times to the Present 70 3.5 Rain-Making A highly metaphysical aspect of herbalism was very popular in Amesi town. Many new converts seemingly intoxicated by the aroma and gingering The Ultimate Account: A History of Amesi People from the Earliest Times to the Present 107 fumes of this new faith, set out to create a base for this religion not in the outskirts but at the heart of Amesi town. keywords: account; achina; agwu; akalabo; akpo; amesi; amesi amesi; amesi catholic; amesi improvement; amesi members; amesi people; amesi society; amesi town; amesians; amuwo; catholic; chief; christianity; church; colonial; community; day; economic; education; family; father; government; group; history; home; house; igbo; information; land; later; life; members; mission; need; new; oraeri; order; ozo; palm; past; peace; people; present; progress; school; times; title; town; traditional; uga; umu; umuchu; village; war; way; women; years cache: feschschrifts-3381.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3381.txt item: #109 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3382 author: Ezeonwuka, Innocent-Franklyn title: STEREOTYPED NIGERIA: Religion & Ethnicity as Identity Politics date: 2023 words: 24410 flesch: 35 summary: With a blind eye on STEREOTYPED NIGERIA: RELIGION AND ETHNICITY AS IDENTITY POLITICS 64 the trending global haze of diversification; the country continues to creak and sob under a primordial monolithic conservative political system which is totally allergic to proactive dynamic change, rather opting towards maintaining an encumbered preference of driving contemporary Nigeria with the dictates of the beleaguered and anachronistic Caliphate mentality of the old. This work explored and highlighted the dimensional condiments of the psychosocial implications of the persistent ethno religious challenges ravaging contemporary Nigeria. keywords: british; century; challenges; colonial; conflict; constitution; country; cultural; democratic; determination; development; economy; ethnicity; ethno; government; group; history; identity politics; igbo; institutions; national; nigeria; north; northern; parties; party; people; power; religion; restructuring; rights; self; state; stereotyped; stereotyped nigeria; system; time; violence; war; west; world cache: feschschrifts-3382.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3382.txt item: #110 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3558 author: Odinye, Ifeoma title: AT SUNSET date: 2023 words: 8116 flesch: 88 summary: At Sunset by Ifeoma Odinye 38 Madness We are all mad men! At Sunset by Ifeoma Odinye 1 At Sunset by Ifeoma Odinye 2 At SUNSET Ifeoma Odinye At Sunset by Ifeoma Odinye 3 First published in Nigeria in 2018 by Arise and Shine Press, 6 C.M.O. Shopping Complex, Regina Ceali Road, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. 08067561837, 08066671534. keywords: afra; arise; dance; dark; day; earth; hope; ifeoma odinye; land; men; song; sunset; time cache: feschschrifts-3558.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3558.txt item: #111 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3560 author: Odinye, Ifeoma title: PAIN IN THE NECK date: 2023 words: 53184 flesch: 86 summary: Adanna said with an air of total indifference that left Chika speechless. ‘My name is Chika, but my friends call me Amibo! keywords: adanna; african; bed; beijing; body; business; chika; chinedu; chinese; dark; day; dear; eyes; face; feeling; food; girls; god; good; guangzhou; guys; heart; jessica; life; love; man; men; mind; money; mother; ngozi; nigeria; people; restaurant; right; room; streets; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; young cache: feschschrifts-3560.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3560.txt item: #112 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3906 author: Odinye, Ifeoma title: VIOLENCE AND THE GIRL-CHILD: FEMINIST VOICES IN AFRICAN FICTION date: 2023 words: 665 flesch: 47 summary: 43 Cultural Violence against the Girl-Child in Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price …………………………………………………… 43 Gender Inequality and Male Child Syndrome …………… 45 Forced Marriage …………………………………………... 53 Female Assertiveness as a Strategy for Emancipation in The Bride Price …………………………………………… 62 Sexual Abuse against the Girl-Child in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue ………………………………………… 70 Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Narrative Representation of Traumatic Experiences ……………….. 71 Female Bonding and Female Assertiveness as Strategies for Emancipation ………………………… 87 Chapter Five: Feminist and Psychoanalytic Perspectives to the Dimensions of Violence against the Girl-Child in Male Selected Novels …………………………………………………………. 133 Female Assertiveness as a Strategy for Emancipation …. 139 Chapter Six: Aspects of Style in the Novels of Buchi Emecheta, Yvonne Vera, Nuruddin Farah and Ikechukwu Asika ……. 142 Plot …………………………………………………………….. 143 Use of Language ………………………………………………. 153 Setting …………………………………………………………. keywords: child; violence cache: feschschrifts-3906.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3906.txt item: #113 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3907 author: Odinye, Ifeoma title: BASICS OF LITERATURE Ifeoma date: 2023 words: 686 flesch: 51 summary: 23 Subject Matter/ Theme ……………………………………… 23 Plot ………………………………………………………….. 24 Setting ……………………………………………………….. 24 Diction/Style ………………………………………………… 24 Character/Characterization ………………………………….. 24 Point of view ………………………………………………… 25 Tone/ Mood ………………………………………………….. 25 Chapter Two: The Essentials of Poetry …………………………… 27 Poetry as a Literary Genre .....................................................................28 What is Poetry? ………………………...…………………………….. 29 Who is a poet? ……………………………………………………….. 32 Poetic Diction ………………………………………………………... 33 Poetic License ……………………………………………………….. 35 Essential Characteristics of Poetry …………………………………... 37 Essential Elements of Poetry ………………………………………… 41 Title ………………………………………………………... 41 Subject Matter/Theme …………………………………….. 41 Diction …………………………………………………….. 42 Style ……………………………………………………….. 42 Rhythm/Rhyme ……………………………………………. 161 Biography ………………………………………… 161 Essay ……………………………………………… 161 Pamphlet ………………………………………….. 162 Travelogue ………………………………………... 162 Fiction ……………….……………………………………. keywords: literature; prose cache: feschschrifts-3907.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3907.txt item: #114 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3927 author: Opara, Ejimofor, Osayi, Kelechi K.; title: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CYBER CRIME: IMPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT date: 2023 words: 6120 flesch: 53 summary: Crave for quick money is the reason for all these Cyber-crime and other crimes too. Introduction Each phase of societal development has been characterized by a unique pattern of crime. keywords: area; crime; cyber; cybercrime; determinants; development; government; internet; municipal; nigeria; owerri; space; study cache: feschschrifts-3927.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3927.txt item: #115 of 132 id: feschschrifts-3971 author: Ezebuilo, Hyginus Chibuike title: Epistemology at a glance date: 2023 words: 74737 flesch: 36 summary: The British philosopher Simon Blackburn has criticized this formulation by suggesting that we do not want to accept as knowledge beliefs which, while they track the truth (as Nozick’s account requires), are not held for appropriate reasons. Such knowledge would give her an excellent link between the belief and its truth. keywords: argument; aristotle; belief; belief knowledge; berkeley; biv; case; century; claim; coherentism; concepts; conditions; descartes; empiricism; epistemology; evidence; example; existence; experience; fact; form; foundationalism; gettier; god; having; human; hume; ibid; ideas; innate; instance; john; justification; kant; kind; knowing; knowledge; locke; mental; mind; nature; new; object; oxford; perception; perceptual; person; philosophers; philosophy; plato; press; principles; priori; problem; propositions; question; rationalism; reality; reason; science; sense; sense experience; skepticism; source; states; theories; theory; things; thought; truth; understanding; university; view; way; world cache: feschschrifts-3971.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-3971.txt item: #116 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4154 author: Hashim, Muhammad Bashir title: INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC GRAPHICS date: 2024 words: 3743 flesch: 51 summary: Exploration of Local Materials for Developing Security Print Inks: For the Production of Banknotes and Security documents. Similarly, forensic graphics is a segment in the printing industry that focuses on the printing and protection of sensitive paper documents such as banknotes, checks, and passports, from tamper-evident, product authentication, certificates, postage stamps, identity cards, and so on. keywords: banknote; counterfeiting; design; documents; features; forensic; graphics; hashim; paper; security cache: feschschrifts-4154.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4154.txt item: #117 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4155 author: Afolabi, Benjamin Eni-itan title: MAKING MEANING OUT OF BIG DATA IN HEALTHCARE: VISUAL DESIGNERS’ PERSPECTIVE date: 2024 words: 5000 flesch: 51 summary: Print and online materials are used in healthcare while health practitioners make use of essential multimedia applications in daily Making meaning out of big data in Healthcare:… 21 medical practices. The data are so numerous that they are classified as ‘big data’ – non-organised, semi-structured or structured information. keywords: afolabi; data; design; designer; health; healthcare; information; making; meaning; nigeria; visualisation cache: feschschrifts-4155.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4155.txt item: #118 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4156 author: Pius Ntagu, Ogobuchi Otuu; title: BATIKED FABRICS FOR INTERIOR WALL HANGINGS AS A MEANS OF DOCUMENTING AND SHOWCASING IGBO TRADITIONAL MOTIF date: 2024 words: 4588 flesch: 62 summary: It combines different Uli motifs intertwined to form a whole. Uli wall decoration was indeed applied directly on olden mud houses but time brings about change and change itself begets change, so even with the new development of houses with concretes, people still long for wall decoration and beautification. keywords: batik; fabric; hangings; igbo; imitation; interior; motifs; uli; wall cache: feschschrifts-4156.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4156.txt item: #119 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4157 author: Oligbinde S. R.; Adetoyinbo A. S.; Umeh C. E., Adesiji O. P.; title: SEMIOLOGICAL AND UTILITARIAN INTRODUCTION OF MAPOLY ART SCHOOL, ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA date: 2024 words: 5224 flesch: 44 summary: Summary This paper has introduced the Department of Art and Industrial Design, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria also referred to as MAPOLY Art School; it provided a chronicle of the artworks and art forms from the home base of Aina Onabolu, the visionary of art inclusion in Nigerian education curriculum. 3. examine the interaction and influence of MAPOLY Art School on her immediate environment in terms of Yoruba semiotics, culture, trade and aesthetic enhancement A Brief History of MAPOLY Art School, Abeokuta The rich historical heritage of artistic practice of Ogun State is significant to the Nigerian artistic map in all facets and across generations; this among other paramount factors such as the need for an increased capacity for training of Artists and Designers as part of the creativity to drive the development of technical Semiological and Utilitarian Introduction of MAPOLY … 63 manpower and entrepreneurship thrust for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the economy. keywords: adesiji; adetoyinbo; art; arts; department; design; mapoly; oligbinde; school; sculpture; state; students; university; works; yoruba cache: feschschrifts-4157.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4157.txt item: #120 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4158 author: Chidiebere Onwuekwe, Chibuzor Asogwa; title: EXPLORING NEGATIVE-POSITIVE DRAWING: AN EXPERIMENT date: 2024 words: 2377 flesch: 52 summary: The appropriate shading techniques for negative drawing are cross- hatching and strokes. Among such drawing effects is inverted drawing. keywords: art; artists; drawing; materials; onwuekwe; photoshop cache: feschschrifts-4158.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4158.txt item: #121 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4159 author: Robinson, Lloyd title: MEANING MAKING IN CITY ORIENTATION: INTERSEMIOSIS AND CONTENDING ISSUES date: 2024 words: 4680 flesch: 46 summary: Information is a universal need, but vital information is not readily available to everyone, hence a philosophy was adopted by this paper that heightens the importance of wayfinding and places priorities on sign design. The idea of significant form is different from the formalist idea: the formalist idea strips away cultural meaning, but Cassirer (1955) argued that significant forms are loaded with cultural meaning. keywords: design; iconography; icons; language; meaning; orientation; peirce; signs; symbols; wayfinding cache: feschschrifts-4159.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4159.txt item: #122 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4160 author: Pius Ntagu, Onyinye J. Mobi; title: EMPLOYING TEXTILE FABRIC WASTE IN MAKING INNOVATIVE FUNCTIONAL MODERN HOME ACCESSORIES date: 2024 words: 2171 flesch: 45 summary: Finally, clothing plays an important role in helping people achieve their needs, considering Maslow's theory of hierarchy of needs in the process of creating innovative functional art, from textile fabric waste materials, we can not only address people's basic needs but also contribute to their higher psychological aspirations and overall well-being as outlined in Maslow's Hierarchy of Need. The work emphasizes the originality of the research by exploring the potential of textile fabric waste materials in creating functional artworks for modern home accessories. keywords: fabric; home; materials; textile; waste cache: feschschrifts-4160.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4160.txt item: #123 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4161 author: Chudi-Duru, Chika title: ADAPTATION OF PUNCH NEEDLE EMBROIDERY AS AN ADDED SURFACE DESIGN ON AFRICAN WAX PRINTS FOR NIGERIAN FASHION date: 2024 words: 5247 flesch: 63 summary: Therefore, this study sought to address that issue by conducting an exploration of using punch needle embroidery on African wax fabrics to see if it will be appropriate as a surface an additional surface design on African wax fabrics just like machine embroidery. This is usually done by machine or hand using various embroidery stitches and threads. keywords: african; cross; embroidery; fabric; fashion; filling; needle; punch; stitches; surface; wax cache: feschschrifts-4161.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4161.txt item: #124 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4162 author: Vivian S. Davies, Benjamin Ejiohuo; title: THE STATE OF ART AND CULTURE IN NIGERIA: A CATALYST FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURAL FIESTA date: 2024 words: 5930 flesch: 54 summary: Fine art (painting, sketching, music, photography, textiles, ceramics, body art, and other visual types are all covered under the umbrella phrase arts festival. Art festivals and carnivals benefit Nigerian communities and states, as well as tourism is a method of developing cross-cultural interaction and understanding among the people of Nigeria's numerous regional blocks, which would ensure trust and peaceful coexistence. keywords: art; carnival; celebration; community; culture; event; festival; food; new; nigeria; onwa; people; state; tourism; year cache: feschschrifts-4162.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4162.txt item: #125 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4163 author: Chudi-Duru, Chika C. title: SURFACE DESIGN TEXTURE: AN INDISPENSABLE ELEMENT OF DESIGN FOR AFRICAN PRINTED FABRICS date: 2024 words: 5875 flesch: 64 summary: Although there are different types and styles of fabric textures produced and used in the world, they can be categorized into 3 main sections: Natural texture, Supplementary texture and treated texture. Different types of finishes are applied to fabric textures, such as Acid wash Air jet spinning, Anti-static finish, Brushed finish, Beetling, Bleaching, Colorfastness, Combing, Deodorize, De-lustering, Enzyme wash, Hydrophilic finish, Mercerization, Moiré, Parchmentizing, Pigment finish Resin, Sandblasting, Schreiner finish and others. keywords: chika; chudi; design; duru; element; fabric; fibre; prints; source; texture; wax cache: feschschrifts-4163.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4163.txt item: #126 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4164 author: Chidiebere Onwuekwe, Chibuzor Asogwa; title: AN INVENTION OF ULI TYPEFACE FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN date: 2024 words: 2972 flesch: 67 summary: Uli Art was able to excel because of the level of interest women of those days had in it. Women were great promoters of Uli art since it served them daily purpose, ranging from social, religious and cultural matters. keywords: art; design; igbo; okeke; typeface; udechukwu; uli; women cache: feschschrifts-4164.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4164.txt item: #127 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4165 author: Chinonyelum Gloria, Okonkwo, title: PREPARATORY STEPS AND PROCESSES FOR MIXED-MEDIA AND OTHER PAINTING GENRES date: 2024 words: 2088 flesch: 60 summary: Steps in surface preparation for mixed media painting In painting, support refers to the physical surface or material upon which a painting is created. Surface preparation refers to the various methods that can be used to treat the surface of a material prior to coating application, the use of adhesives and other procedures. keywords: art; media; painting; surface cache: feschschrifts-4165.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4165.txt item: #128 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4166 author: Clifford E. Nwanna, Ukwa, Job Nworie; title: SCIENCE OF SIGNS AND SYMBOLS: MATERIAL MANIPULATION, MEANING-MAKING AND MEDIA ADVANCEMENT IN PAINTING date: 2024 words: 5486 flesch: 38 summary: This is because in Africa, in the very beginning, local materials adapted as art materials were conceived of as having inherent life of their own, hence they are used for rituals as mediators between humanity and divinity. Among the Nigerian artists that have explored abstract expressionism in their use of symbolic local material in painting are Krydz Ikwuemesi in his Pot with Uli pattern, a symbolic painting on a traditional earthen clay pot, Stanley Eze’s Abstract and Conceptual, a painting on clay pots, Chukwuemeka Okpara’s African stories, an Uli painting with sand colour pigment on earthen pots. keywords: art; conference; forms; job; making; manipulation; materials; meaning; media; painting; signs; symbols; work cache: feschschrifts-4166.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4166.txt item: #129 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4167 author: Uchenna R. Dike, Calista Oduchukwu Nwosu; title: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF FABRIC SUBSTRATE FORMATION date: 2024 words: 3986 flesch: 67 summary: Plain weave fabrics are firm and resist yarn slippage Nwosu (2015) states that plain weave is the simplest and universally known to weavers everywhere and that very high proportion of all weaving is done in plain weave. Plain weave has the simplest repeating unit of interlacement and the maximum possible frequency of interlacements. keywords: fabric; rib; substrate; twill; warp; weave; weft; yarns cache: feschschrifts-4167.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4167.txt item: #130 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4168 author: Mary O. Emodi-Nnoruka; Ojo Ekundayo, Chidi Uzor; title: THE APPLICATION OF CORELDRAW SOFTWARE IN THE CREATION OF SIMPLE AND COMPLEX GRAPHIC DESIGNS date: 2024 words: 1929 flesch: 43 summary: Compatibility: Compatibility issues may arise when transferring files between different versions of CorelDraw or other design software. Comparison with some other Design Applications To provide a comprehensive overview, this research compares CorelDraw with other design software on the market, showcasing its strengths and weaknesses relative to its competitors. keywords: coreldraw; design; features; software; tools cache: feschschrifts-4168.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4168.txt item: #131 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4169 author: Chika Chudi-Duru, Lawani Sunday ; title: STYLE AND TECHNIQUES IN THE USE OF ELONGATED CARICATURE FEATURES IN FIGURE PAINTING date: 2024 words: 4208 flesch: 56 summary: CHAPTER 16: STYLE AND TECHNIQUES IN THE USE OF ELONGATED CARICATURE FEATURES IN FIGURE PAINTING Contributed by Lawani Sunday and Chika Chudi-Duru Introduction The history of figure painting dates back to the pre- historical period when the ancient dwellers were using animal blood with organic and inorganic materials to paint on rock and stone surfaces. He mentioned that from c. 6000 B.C., rock drawings in Africa have included representations of animals and hunters which are figure paintings. keywords: art; artist; caricature; figure; form; lawani; nigeria; painting; style; sunday; work cache: feschschrifts-4169.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4169.txt item: #132 of 132 id: feschschrifts-4170 author: Chu Krydz Ikwuemesi, Chidiebere Onwuekwe; title: CREATIVE PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES IN A NEW GRAPHIC LITERATURE ON THE NIGERIA/BIAFRA WAR date: 2024 words: 2876 flesch: 61 summary: CHAPTER 17: CREATIVE PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES IN A NEW GRAPHIC LITERATURE ON THE NIGERIA/BIAFRA WAR Contributed by Chidiebere Onwuekwe and Chu Krydz Ikwuemesi INTRODUCTION Between 2016 and 2023, Chidiebere Onwuekwe embarked on his doctoral journey in the Nsukka Art School. The importance of lettering in narrative art such as comics and graphic novels can no longer be over-emphasized as it forms the dialogues within the panels. keywords: graphic; novel; onwuekwe; process; processes; source; war; work cache: feschschrifts-4170.pdf plain text: feschschrifts-4170.txt