Samuel Fubara Joshua

This study examines how the discourse of language and gender are employed in describing convenient inscriptions in different locations across the world. The study set out to find out, among other things, how gender is portrayed through convenience inscriptions; the specific language devices used in the selected inscriptions and also determining the...

The aim of this study is to examine how memes peculiar to Nigerians on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram employ language to convey humour and irony. Memes can be aptly conceptualized as internet-based entertainment contents principally propagated through social networking and micro-blogging sites which come in varied forms like pictures and written t...

Although the concept of synonymy has been investigated in some Nigerian languages, no work on the concept was found in Gokana. This study is a first attempt at investigating the concept in Gokana. The specific objectives of this study were to identify synonymous sets of lexemes in Gokana, analyze the meaning of the synonymous lexemes identified and...

This paper descriptively investigated relative clauses as a type of complex constructions in Gokana, an Ogonoid language spoken by over 400,000 people in the Delta-Cross of the Cross River branch of Benue-Congo in the Niger-Congo phylum. This work sought to know the structural configuration of relative clauses in Gokana, ascertain the types of rela...

This work is a descriptive study on discourse connectives found in Gokana and Kana, two related languages in the Delta-Cross of the Benue-Congo language family. The two languages are spoken in south-eastern part of Rivers State with a population of 301,828 and 311,144 as native speakers for Gokana and Kana respectively. The objectives of this s...

his work on aspects of simple connectives in Ikwere, an Igboid language spoken in Rivers State was undertaken because the subject matter of connectives in Ikwere has received very little attention. This study was thus carried out to investigate the structure of simple connectives in Ikwere, ascertain the syntactic relevance of connectives in Ikwere...

This work examines dialectal variations in the phonology of Kana, an Ogonoid language spoken in Kana Local Government Area of Rivers state. Four dialects of the language were studied; these were Kē-kena, Beeri, Babbe and Opuoko The work found out that phonological variations in Kana are all unconditioned and lean along the geographical divisions of...