Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theses and Dissertations

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The Emergence, growth and impact of indigence churchies in the former Ondo province of Nigeria, 1913-1976
(Department of History , Faculity of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2002) Jonathan Ojo OKE
The study examined the cause and circumstances of the phenomenon of indigenization which has been one of the peculiar traits in the history of Christianity. The study also examined how the issues of liturgy, festivals and Christian celebrations, among other factor, contributed to the growth of the indigenous Churches. It then highlighted how the indigenous Churches impacted on the people of the former Ondo Province.
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Iyisodi ati Atupale Ihun re Ninu Eka-Ede Awori.
(Arts, African language and literature, Falculty of Art, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife., 2006) Aboderin, Oluwakemi Adebisi
The study examined the negation of words and sentences in the Awori dialect and contrasted the forms with those of the standard Yoruba . This was with view to determing the deep structure of the negation markers in Standard Yoruba and Awori dialects. It was found that the number of negators and their variants were more in Awori dialect than in standard Yoruba.
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Existentialist Dimension in four Nigerian Oral Traditions and selected plays of Wole Soyinka
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2008) Abamba Oghenerhoro
the study examined the concept of Existentialism in some Nigerian oral Cultures and analyzed four selected plays of Wole Soyinka. It further determined the representation of existentialist thought borrowed from oral African oral tradition in Soyinka's plays studied.
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An Examination of Pauline Concept of Spiritual Gifts I 1Cor. 12:4-12 in The Context of Deliverance Practices in Selected Pentecostal Churches in South-Western Nigeria
(Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife., 2010) Adegbite, Deborah Doyinsola
This study examined the biblical and historical roots of the spiritual gifts and knowledge according to Paul’s teaching in 1 Cor 12:4-12 and how they manifested in selected Pentecostal churches in Southwestern Nigeria. It investigated the origin , growth and phenomenon of demonology and evaluated their impact on contemporary Christianity. This was with a view to determining the role and contributions of the deliverance ministers in the Nigerian Pentecostal Churches.
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A critical analysis of thematic contents and stylistic features in oriki of towns in oke-ogun
(Department of Linguistics and African languages, Faculty of arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2022) ADEMUYIWA Adewale Lukman
The study identified the issues of identity and cultural affinity of Òke Ògùn people of Oyo North Senatorial District in the oríkì of their towns. It also examined the concept of the oral formulaic and intertextuality in the oríkì of towns in Òkè-Ògùn. It further analysed the thematic contents and assessed the stylistic features in oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns. These were with a view to bringing to the fore, oral literary and stylistic qualities in the oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised a collection of Oríkì of forty towns in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State gathered from oral, written, audio and audio-visual materials. This was complemented with interviews conducted with 40 purposively selected chanters, drummers and historians, to get more details on Oríkì and historical background of towns in Oke-Ogun. The secondary source included books, journal articles, magazines and the Internet. The collected data were transcribed and analysed within the general theoretical framework of Archetypal theory and Genetic Structuralism. The study revealed that dialect, geographical locations, occupations, religions, beliefs, political structure and oríkì composition patterning are the archetypal elements of identity and cultural affinities of Òke-Ògùn people. The study further revealed names of towns, archetypal founders, archetypal situations, archetypal slangs, kinship terminologies and nominalization as xxiv the oral formulaic used in the formulation of oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn, while the insertion of other Yorùbá oral genres such as proverbs, incantation, Ifa literary corpus and songs are concepts of intertextuality in the oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn. Also, the study showed that the thematic contents in the oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns show common features of reference to their ancestors, origins, behaviours, taboo, foods, deities, manifestation of power, anthropological artefacts and the reference to geographical elements like mountain, rivers and forests. The study further revealed that foregrounded metaphor, simile, metonymy, hyperbole, personification, objectification, repetition, pun, tonal play, onomatopoeia and phonal-aesthetics are notable stylistic features embedded in the oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn for aesthetic purpose. The study concluded that the oríkì of towns in Òkè-Ògun showed that geographical locations are not the only indices that bind all these communities together; they also shared common archetypal attributes embedded in their oríkì. Also, oríkì is perceived as a repertory oral poetry through which archetypal elements are kept for incoming generations.
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Itupale koko-oro ati imo Isowolo-ede Oriki awon iku Oke-ogun ( A critical analysis of thematic contents and stylistic features in oriki of towns in Oke-ogun).
(Department of Linguistics and African languages, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2022) ADEMUYIWA, Adewale Lukman
The study identified the issues of identity and cultural affinity of Òke Ògùn people of Oyo North Senatorial District in the oríkì of their towns. It also examined the concept of the oral formulaic and intertextuality in the oríkì of towns in Òkè-Ògùn. It further analysed the thematic contents and assessed the stylistic features in oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns. These were with a view to bringing to the fore, oral literary and stylistic qualities in theoríkì of Oke-ogun.
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Vowel articulation patterns of preachers of children- and adult- directed English -medium sermons in selected pentecostal churches in Southwestern Nigeria
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo Universityy, ile-ife., 2023) Oyelekan, Charlotte.Oyebimpe.
This study described and identified the vowel articulation patterns in English-medium sermons of preachers of children and adult in Pentecostal churches in Southwestern Nigeria. It also described the influence of educational background on the vowel articulation patterns of preachers of children- and adult-directed English-medium sermons (CDS and ADS). It further analysed the acoustic features of vowel patterns articulated by preachers in children- and adult-directed English-medium sermons (CDS and ADS) and finally discussed the communicative implications of the identified vowel articulation patterns in the sermons. All these were done with a view to conducting a comparative study of vowel articulation patterns of preachers of children- and adult-directed English-medium Sermons in selected Pentecostal churches in Southwestern Nigeria. The data for this study was obtained from thirty-six (36) recorded sermons drawn from three (3) purposively selected Pentecostal churches from three (3) states: Ekiti, Lagos and Osun in Southwestern Nigeria. The three Pentecostal churches were: Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel) and Victory Life Ministry International (VLMI). Twelve (12) sermons each were recorded from the children and adult segments of each of the churches, making a total of thirty-six (36) in all the three states. All the thirty-six sermons were recorded with the aid of Video LAN (VLC) media player. The respondents’ outputs were then subjected to acoustic and perceptual analyses using PRAAT. Additionally, a questionnaire containing some structured items meant to elicit information on the respondents’ educational background was administered. The statistical package of social science (SPSS) was used to test the significance of the variable on the respondents’ vowel articulation patterns. The data were analysed drawing insights from Gile’s Communication Accommodation Theory and Larry Hyman’s Moraic Theory. The findings revealed that the vowel articulation patterns observed in the data showed three variant forms: the AP3 pattern, which represents the sophisticated Educated Nigerian; AP2, the educated Nigerian variant; and AP1, characterized by excessive modifications. Additionally, the study established that the social variable of educational background is significant to vowel articulation patterns. The P-value of 0.001 was less than 0.05 level of significance. Also, the findings from the acoustic analysis showed excessive vowel duration and pitch heights in children-directed sermons which resulted into affectation. However, this was not the case in adult- directed sermons (ADS). Finally, the communication implications showed that the Preachers of children- and adult-directed English-medium sermons demonstrated a clear case of convergence, where their sermon presentations were audience and goal- determined. The study concluded that the contextual variable of educational background plays significant role in religious discourse, especially in the aspect of vowel articulation and modification in sermon delivery. The study also concluded that Gile’s Communication Accommodation Theory and Larry Hyman’s Moraic Theory are adequate in accounting for the speech styles in sermons especially as it affects vowel articulation.
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A critical discourse analysis of fake news and hate speech among Nigerians in selected social media sites.
(Department Of English, Faculty Of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2023) Adewuya, Abiola Omotayo
The study identified the patterns of language use in fake news and hate speech among Nigerians on the selected social media sites. It analysed the discursive strategies projecting identities and ideologies in the selected texts. It further described the use of language militating against peace and or promoting discord in the selected texts and discussed the implications of the use of language in the Nigerian context. All these were done with a view to uncovering the underlying issues of identity and ideology in the Nigerian wider contexts. The study used both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised 50 purposively selected fake news and 50 purposively selected hate speeches making 100 altogether. Among the 10 commonly used social media platforms in Nigeria, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were selected based on perceived popularity and acceptance among Nigerians. The secondary source included books, journal articles and the Internet. The study adopted van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of CDA with bias for his ideological square drawing insights from Gumperz’s Interactional Sociolinguistics to analyse the data. The results showed that discourse producers on social media used patterns of language including lengthy titles, capital letters, lexicalisation, punctuation marks and slangy words/expressions in the fake news and hate speeches to emphasise issues and present people. The study also revealed that social media users discursively used language to showcase Self and Other identities in ethnic, religious, social and political forms with the use of figures of speech e.g. consonantal alliteration, metaphor, irony and synechdoche while ideologies of marginalisation, ethnic and religious biases etc. were expressed with discursive strategies such as actor description, categorisation, example/illustration, evidentiality, generalisation, national self(de)glorification, number game among others. It further revealed that fake news and hate speeches’ discursive features reflect negative presentations of different ethnicities and political office holders which mitigate against peace and/or promote discord in Nigeria. Finally, the study found that the implication of language use in fake news and hate speech on social media reflects resistance to domination and power abuse of the political class in the Nigerian context. The study concluded that fake news and hate speech on the social media reflect individual and collective ideologies reflective of the socio-political nature of Nigeria through which different identities are marked.
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A Morphosyntactic Study of English Language Usage in Selected Official Documents and Correspondences of The Lagos State Government
(Department of English, Faculty of Art, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2023) ADENIYI, Sijuwade Toyin
This study identified the peculiar lexical features in the selected government documents and correspondences. It analysed the structural patterns of the selected documents and correspondences. It also examined the functional contexts of the identified lexical and grammatical features in the selected documents and correspondences, and further discussed the implications of the language usage in governmental documents and correspondences on the characterisation of Nigerian English as a recognised regional variety of English in the world. This was with a view to showing the peculiar uses of language in the domain of State Government administration. This study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised 80 purposively selected correspondences and documents from the Public Service Office of Lagos State Government, Alausa as well as their websites. These correspondences comprised 25 letters, 25 memos, 20 circulars and 10 press releases recently archived between 2015 and 2021. The press releases were fewer than the other documents because they were lengthier than them. The secondary source included books, journal articles, and the Internet. The data collected were analysed using Hengeveld‘s Functional Discourse Grammar (2000) and Halliday‘s Systemic Functional Grammar (1985). The results showed that lexical items such as repetition, synonyms, antonyms and identification are foregrounded lexical features in the selected documents and correspondences. The study found that the documents and correspondences were most characterized by complex sentence structure, embedding, passivation and nominalization. It further revealed that the identified lexical items featured most prominently in circulars and press releases. Finally, the study discovered that the uses of language within the Civil Service of State Government of Lagos have implications on power structure among the officials. The study concluded that the deployment of language in government is formal, standard, polite, courteous, clear and devoid of ambiguity and misinformation.
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Discursive Farming In Selected Oline News Reports On Epidemis Diseases In Nigeria,2014-2020
(Department of English,Faculty of Arts,Obafemi Awolowo University., 2024) Christian-Achinihu Moses Chika
The study identified and categorised the frames in the epidemic disease reports and analysed the ideologies underlying the identified frames in the reports. It also examined the discursive and linguistic resources functioning as framing devices in the reports, and related the discursive framings and the linguistic devices to the stances of the news actors. These were done with a view to investigating how diseases, disease-informed concerns and news actors are discursively framed in the news. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised 72 news reports on four selected epidemic diseases from three online news categories, namely: online mainstream dailies, citizen journalism websites and biomedicine/health websites. Two news sources were selected in each online news category, based on their virtual ubiquity and credibility. They are: The Guardian and The Nation for online mainstream dailies, Sahara Reporters and Nairaland for citizen journalism websites, and Nigeria Health Watch and Health Reporters for biomedicine/health websites. Twelve disease stories were selected from each news source. Four diseases, namely Ebola, Lassa fever, Monkeypox and COVID-19, were selected based on the criterion that their outbreak covered three or more of the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria, which ascertained their topicality. The data spanned reports published between 2014 and 2020 in order to accommodate more recent records and discourse on the epidemic diseases. The secondary source included books, journal articles and the Internet. The theoretical frameworks for the data analysis were Dietram Scheufele’s Process Model of Framing, Teun van Dijk’s Socio-cognitive Model and Theo van Leeuwen’s Discursive Construction of Legitimization. The results showed that there are 13 frame categories in the reports, such as outbreak/spread awareness, local efforts toward interventions, causes, transmission and containment awarenessice and advocacy, risk and fear, incapability, insensitivity and incompetency, and effect of outbreaks. The study found that out of these 13 frame categories, outbreak/spread awareness and local efforts toward interventions are more prominent than others because they resonate respectively with the media’s primary interest in publishing topical appalling incidents and their social responsibility. It also uncovered that ideologies such as welfarism, resistance ideology, anti-religious ideology, contestation of knowledge formations, saviour complex and strike actions underlie the frames and polarise the disease discourses. The study further showed that the discursive resources such as history as lesson, number games, evidentiality, interdiscursive and intertextual references, actor description, discourse representations of diseases and actors, rhetoric of promises and assurances, verbal confrontation and vagueness serve as bedrocks of discursivity in frame construction, while linguistic resources such as lexicalisation and collocations, deictic pronominals, direct and reported expressions, disease schemata and passivisation enhance the framing practices. It also found that discursive framings and the linguistic resources share close interdependent relationships with the stances of the news actors as linguistic devices inherent in the frames also facilitate the actors’ stance legitimisation when they (actors) project ideologies behind the frames. The study concluded that the frames and their associated ideological underpinnings are arguably positioned to have a common impact on audience’s personal cognitive behaviour, their decisions toward social safety as well as on the mediation of disease outbreaks. It also concluded that there is an alignment of language and discursivity in shaping how concerns emanating from public health discourses are framed in news. Name of Supervisor: Prof. O. O. Taiwo Number of Pages: 256
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An Experiential Metafuctional Analysis of News Report of Kidnappings in Selected Newspapers in Nigeria
(Deparment of English, Faculty of Arts ,Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile Ife,Nigeria., 2024) OWOEYE,Damilola olawumi
The study identified and analysed the processes, participants and circumstantial roles in selected news reports of kidnapping in The Punch, The Tide and Leadership newspapers in Nigeria. It also discussed the grammatical resources deployed to express experiential meanings in the news reports and related the experiential meaning to the socio-cultural context of Nigeria. These were done with a view to understanding how grammatical resources were deployed in news reports of kidnapping to represent the world of the language users. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised 20 purposively selected kidnapping news reports each from The Punch, The Tide and Leadership from 2018 to 2023, making a total of 60 reportage for the entire study. These newspapers were selected based on their wide coverage of kidnapping cases in different parts of the country. The news reports were closely read and analysed into clauses in order to bring out the grammatical resources used for expressing experiential meanings in them. The secondary source included books, journal articles and the Internet. The analysis of the data was guided by Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar. The results showed that the experiential meanings in the clauses were reflected through the processes, participants and circumstantial roles across the three newspapers. The study revealed that the participants represented those carrying out actions of kidnapping and, the processes indicated different actions such as reporting, sensing or affirming the existence of kidnapping of people or students while the circumstantial roles gave detailed information about the location and time of the kidnappings in the selected newspaper reports. The study also found that grammatical resources for expressing experiential meanings were construed through the participants as expressed through the nominal groups, process types expressed through verbal groups and the circumstantial roles were expressed through the adverbial or prepositional groups. It discovered that across the three newspapers, there was preponderant manifestations of material and verbal processes while mental, relational and existential processes are not as dominant as the material and verbal processes with no instance of behavioural process in the three newspapers. The study further revealed that the preponderance of material and verbal processes indicated that kidnapping news reports centred on revealing the actions perpetrated by kidnappers to the kidnapees as well as reporting, exposing and decrying the criminal act perpetrated by the kidnappers to the victims.The study concluded that the grammatical resources were deployed to disseminate information on stakeholders as well as the circumstantial issue surrounding the acts of kidnapping.

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