God is Life: A Sociolinguistic and Ethnopragmatic Conceptualization of Chi in Igbo Naming Practices

GO Uwen, EK Ukaegbu - Journal of Black Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Personal naming culture among the Igbos in South-eastern Nigeria is ethnopragmatically
conceived to contextualize their collective worldview which communicates their religious …

Emotional women and promiscuous men: Language use as discursive stances of wives on cheating husbands

BA Ekpenyong, GA Onah… - Environment and Social …, 2023 - esp.as-pub.com
This paper investigates the dimensions of emotive language used by women to situate their
stances on cheating husbands in Calabar, Southern Nigeria. The data for the study were …

Semiotics Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Photos in Wasapada Newspaper

MS Harahap, R Khadafi, EJ Hasibuan - Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi, 2024 - jurnal.upnyk.ac.id
In the current digital era, mass media play a crucial role in assisting the government in
overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic. The responsibilities of this position encompass the …

Guns end dreams: linguistic choices as trauma narrations in Baki and Adedoyin's End sars rhythms

GO Uwen, EE Ene - Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the poetic presentation of the October 2020# EndSARS protest as
traumatic narrations in Baki and Adedoyin's End sars rhythms. Drawing on insights from …

[PDF][PDF] Emotive languages as construction of situational aggression among drivers at gridlock scenes in Nigeria

GO Uwen, AJ Ghevolor… - Environment and Social …, 2023 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
This paper 1investigates the use of emotive language in the construction of situational
aggression among drivers in gridlock scenes along the failed Calabar-Uyo highway, in …

Language use as stancetaking on motivations for romantic relationships among female undergraduates

OM Melefa, ME O'Neill - Environment and Social Psychology, 2024 - esp.as-pub.com
This paper explores motivations for love as stancetaking in the discourse on romantic
relationships among female undergraduates in two Universities in Southern Nigeria. Insights …

Emotive language as construction of situational aggression among drivers at gridlock scenes in Nigeria

AJ Ghevolor, VO Bassey - Environment and Social Psychology, 2023 - esp.as-pub.com
This paper investigates the use of emotive language in the construction of situational
aggression among drivers in gridlock scenes along the failed Calabar-Uyo highway, in …

[PDF][PDF] You are Under Arrest: Language Use for Social Power Construction in Institutional Discourse

HI Adie, BB Etta, R Aboh - 2024 - researchgate.net
This article investigates the ways in which language is employed in the construction of social
power in selected institutional discourses. Speech acts theory and Fairclough's concept of …

[PDF][PDF] Kek-the humor of war

HK Fossberg - 2023 - duo.uio.no
There have been multiple lone actor terrorists that have come out of-chan forums. 4chan is
especially mentioned in manifestos and harbor far-right political ideology, conspiracy …

[PDF][PDF] Child Narrative Voice as Satire for Rape in Ernest Emenyonu's “What the Babysitter and my Bishop had in Common”

JN Ekpang - researchgate.net
The short story “What the babysitter and my bishop had in common” is a social commentary
told from the point of view of an impressionistic child using a child's narrative voice. In this …