Emama Emmanuel Ogheneakpobor- Doctor of Philosophy
- Dr at Delta State University
Emama Emmanuel Ogheneakpobor
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Dr at Delta State University
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Emmanuel Ọghẹnẹakpọbọr EMAMA, holds a PhD degree in English Language. He teaches language courses in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. His areas of research interest include sociolinguistics and semantics.
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Nigeria is complexly multilingual. Arising from this, Nigerian stand–up comedians employ a variety of linguistic strategies to communicate with the audience. This research investigates the peculiarities of language use in Nigerian stand-up comedy by analysing patterns of code choices in the comic performances of four comedians. Because the stand-up...
This study is a contrastive analysis of the morphology of plural formations in English and Ụkwụanị. It is primarily directed at investigating the cross-linguistic variations in plural formation processes and the acquisitional challenges they pose. With insight from Auto-segmental phonology, primary and secondary data were analyzed using probability...
Despite the overarching influence of English as the primary code of literary expression in the Kachruvian outer and expanding circles, diatopic ethno-cultural and socio-semiotic variables are carriers of identity that introduce meaning variegations in African literature with profound interpretive influences onmeaning evaluation. This paper examines...
The influence of technology and the internet on modern English language is indisputable. Social media apps have become the most enduring sources of spelling innovations in English. With insights from morphology, this paper utilises a descriptive approach to investigate the effect of habituation, measured in terms of the frequency of use of chat pla...
This paper examines the metaphorical representation of the socio-political and religious space, Nigeria, in StephenKekeghe’s award-winning collection of poems, Rumbling Sky (2020). Contemporary Nigerian space has been plaguedwith social, political, and religious vices such as election malpractices, corruption, religious intolerance, cyberspacecrime...
Language is the carrier of culture and a repository of the knowledge systems that define a people. Arising from this, the problem of language endangerment is of universal concern. Music is an important functional domain in every language for several reasons. Apart from its emotive value, it is a carrier of critical aspects of tribal knowledge and a...
Studies on African drama have shown the influences and the intertextual relations between African drama and European (Classical and Elizabethan) plays. It is also a known fact that African drama exhibits traces of African tradition and instances of textual relations with already existing oral and written texts. However, existing studies on Wole Soy...
Abstract. In linguistics, cohesion is traditionally
conceived as a product of the lexical, grammatical
and contextual ties within a text. Textual meaning is
therefore the product of interplay between linguistic
and nonlinguistic categories. Hierarchically, lexical
and grammatical cohesive ties generally exert greater
influence on textuality a...
This paper analyses how Nigerian stand-up comedians utilize and manipulate aspects of the syntax of Nigerian Pidgin and other sociolinguistic features of the various languages in which they ply their act. The data, derived from recorded videos of five Nigerian stand-up comics, is analysed using M.A.K Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar and Myers...
Previous researches have provided a surfeit of literature on lexico-semantic usages in standard Nigerian English. However, research imperatives are generally skewed in favour of either describing the morphological processes, the linguistic/sociocultural factors that underpin them, or their implication for English language pedagogy. Commensurate att...
A plethora of research has been done on the linguistic competence of Nigerian users of English especially in the areas of phonology, syntax, morphology, and semantics. However, little has been in the area of pragmatics. This paper details the importance of acquiring pragmatic competence, and adduces reasons for the apparent inertia in pragmatics or...
Significant investigative resources have been directed at investigating the linguistic peculiarities of standard Nigerian English at the lexico-semantic level. However, research imperatives are generally skewed in favour of either describing the processes, the linguistic/sociocultural forces that underpin them, or the implication for English langua...
A number of studies have clearly shown that the Urhobo language is generally not endangered, Uvwie and Okpe being the exception. This paper investigates the frequency of use of the selected languages in various domains in some rural Urhobo Communities. This study is a sociolinguistic survey and seeks to provide a clear and updated picture of the ro...
