Richard Oliseyenum Maledo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Delta State University

Of late, there has been a growing interest in the concept of corporate reputation/crisis, yet a precise and widely accepted definition remains elusive. This study aims to meticulously review, analyze, and assess previous definitional statements of corporate reputation/crisis. 938 Building on this review and a lexicological analysis of the concept o...

One of the distinguishing features of the Internet language is slang formation and usage among youths in some Internet domains. Such slangs are formed following morphological processes and they are used to convey in-group identity and meaning. In the light of the above, this paper undertakes a morphological analysis of some Internet-based slangs wi...

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...

This paper is a contribution to the description and characterization of the language of scam emails. It focuses on syntactic distortions and grammatical cohesion in the mails to reveal the inherent deceit hidden in the language used by scammers. In all, two scam mails were presented and analysed from the perspective of pronominal reference. Twenty-...

Covid-19 is one of the most disturbing infections that has rattled the world in recent history. This flu affected nearly all the countries of the world with different degrees of medical, scientific, social and scholarly attentions. The humanities are not left out from the perspective of language and communication during the pandemic. In the light o...

This study is based on Joe Ushie's creative use of the morphological resources of the English Language to realise lexical innovations in his poetry collection A Reign of Locusts (2004). It has been argued that the contact between the English Language and Nigerian indigenous languages is responsible for the innovative use of language in Nigerian lit...

The constant exploration and exploitation of crude oil in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria had had a negative consequential effect on the entire ecosystem of the region. This has been a source of national and international concern and has attracted the attention of scholars from several disciplines, within and outside the region. Creative writers we...

This paper undertakes a lexical study of Tanure Ojaide's poetry with a view to interpreting the meaning relations between the hypernym (super-ordinate term) and the hyponyms in the presentation of Niger Delta issues in the selected poems. The study is essentially based on the premise that hyponymic classifications are of interest in texts due to th...

This paper examines language conflict in Nigeria and its implication for national unity and development. Particularly, the main focus is on the conflict between the English language on the one hand and the indigenous Nigerian languages on the other hand. A historical approach is adopted from the colonial period through the post-independence era to...

One problem that has given Nigeria and Nigerians a negative image nationally and internationally is the 419 scam. The Nigeria 419 scam mail is an unsolicited mail aimed at defrauding the recipients. It is named after the Criminal Code dealing with such crimes. Several attempts have been made to no avail by government and non-governmental organizati...

This paper is a contrastive study of Sentential Negation in English and Izon languages. Contact language situations have given rise not only to the influences of one language over the other but also to the differences between the structures of the two languages in contact and the likely learning difficulties which an L1 learner of a second language...

To an average student or a graduate of Literature, the works of Wole Soyinka are obscure and incomprehensible. The Road, one of Soyinka's most discussed plays, is not free of these obscure and incomprehensibility claims. In fact, The Road has often been described by critics as "an enigma" and "a problem play". Others have attempted a metaphysical i...

This study is an x-ray of(dis)collocational (usual and unusual collocations) patterns as style marker in the selected poems of Tanure Ojai de. Since it can be argued that the meaning of a lexical item in a discourse can only be adequately described through its semantic relation and contrast to other words in the discourse, this paper adopts the syn...

This study identifies the prominent graphological features in selected poems of Tanure Ojaide. It analyzes and categorizes these prominent graphological features and relates them to the socio-political contexts of the poems. This is with a view to understanding the graphological style of language use in the poems. Our data is drawn from selected po...

This paper examines "Grammatical Names and Function", a permanent feature of the comprehension section of WAEC and NECO examinations for Senior School Certificate. Samples from past WAEC and NECO question papers are analysed using the Systemic Functional Grammatical model. It is observed that a proper understanding of the constituent structure of a...

This paper is an analysis of the use of syntactic parallelism as a meaning relation device in the poetry of Tanure Ojaide. Essentially, the major thrust of Ojaide's poetry is oil exploration and exploitation and its attendant environmental problems in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Eight poems have been selected across four different collection...

The constant exploration and exploitation of crude oil in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria had had a negative consequential effect on the entire ecosystem of the region. This has been a source of national and international concern and has attracted the attention of scholars from several disciplines, within and outside the region. Creative writers we...

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...

This paper examines rank-shifting as a linguistic device in the poetry of Tanure Ojaide with the aim of showing ho11 it helps the poet in the projection of the plight of the Niger Delta people and the socio-political problems in hi country, Nigeria. The study is guided by M A. K. Halliday's "Scale and Category Grammar" as a theoretical .framework a...

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...

This paper undertakes a contrastive linguistics of relativisation in English and Nigerian Pidgin. The three main objectives of this paper are as follows: first, it undertakes an overview of Nigerian Pidgin as a neo-African language; discusses the benefits of Chomsky's Minimalist program that is adopted as the grammatical model for this study and it...