Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary issues in language studies / edited by Adesina B. Sunday & Francis O. Egbokhare.

Publication

Ibadan, Nigeria : Scholarship Books, a division of Scholarship Publishers (Nig.) Ltd., 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Sunday, Adesina B.
• Egbokhare, Francis O.

Description

x, 326 pages : illustrations, charts; 25 cm

Subject

• Languages, Modern > Study and teaching
• Languages, Modern > Phonology
• Languages, Modern > Semantics
• Languages, Modern > Syntax

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

SECTION A. General linguistics. Introducing language and linguistics / Abolaji S. Mustapha -- Forensic linguistics : an emerging field of language study in Nigeria / Temitope Michael Ajayi -- Monolingualism, bilingualism, multilingualism and diglossia : a general overview / Jacob Oludare Oluwadoro. -- SECTION B. Phonology. Introduction to generative phonology / Adesina B. Sunday -- Transformational processes of the segmentals of Nigerians with autism / Bunmi Oluwaseun Esan -- Optimality theory in phonology / Ezekiel Tunde Bolaji -- Optimality theory and Nigerian English stress / Olubunmi Olanike Oyemade -- ToDI analysis of intonation in the news reading of selected newscasters of a Nigerian television station / Omotosho Moses Melefa. -- SECTION C. Syntax. Principles and parameters theory / Abiodun T. Adesanya -- Island constraints / Olalekan 'Tunde Adepoju -- The metafunctions of 'the English clause' / Tolulope A. Akinseye. -- SECTION D. Pragmatics. An explication of the pragmatics acts theory / Temidayo Akinrinlola -- Common ground theory / Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose -- A semantic reading of indexicals in Femi Osofisan's Morountodun / Folakemi Ademodi -- Generic structure potential / Olufunke Fagunleka -- An introduction to linguistic analysis of humour / Ibukun Filani -- Pragmatic acting in doctor-aphasic interaction / Ayodele James Akinola -- Relevance theory / Akin Tella -- A speech acts analysis of Niyi Osundare's Early Birds III / Ronde Eunice Okhuosi -- Accounting for expressions of ideology in discourses using the critical discourse analysis framework / Ruth K. Oji. -- SECTION E. Stylistics. Critical stylistics / Adeola O. Ojoawo -- Multimodal stylistics / Olarotimi Daniel Ogungbemi.

ISBN

978978540006 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021399522

OCLC

• 1319041145
• on1319041145
• SCSB-14288674

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library