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A Criritical Assessment and Defence of the Legalisation
(Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2022) FOLORUNSHO, Martha Tosin
The study explicated and clarified the concept of euthanasia. It also examined arguments for and against euthanasia. The study also defended the idea of self ownership. This was done with a view to showing that the moral permissibility of euthanasia on the basis of self ownership provides a plausible ground for the legalization of euthanasia. This study adopted the method of philosophical argumentation, critical analysis and conceptual clarification of data collected from both primary and secondary sources. The Primary sources included works of philosophers such as: P.A Singer and M. Siegler Euthanasia: A Critique, Behnke, A. and Bok Sissels, (eds.) The Dilemma of Euthanasia, Jonathan G. Causing Death and Saving Life, Reisser, S. J Euthanasia, Joel Feinberg “Harm to self: The Moral Limit of Criminal Law”, Micheal Lacewing “Well-Being and Death” and D. Belgium “The right to die at the end of your life.” The secondary sources will include books, journal articles and the Internet. The data collected were subjected to critical analysis and philosophical argumentation. The study found that the concept of euthanasia has various meanings. It also found that the various arguments for and against euthanasia are inadequate because they did not pay adequate did not pay adequate attention to the concept of self ownership. Thus, the study found that the concept of self-ownership provides a plausible basis for the moral permissibility of euthanasia. The study concluded that the moral permissibility of euthanasia presents a justifiable ground for its legalization.
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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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A Critical Assessment of the internalist theory of Epistemic justification
(Department of philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2022) Olusola Ayomide Asaju
The study identified and examined different versions of internalism as a theory of epistemic justification. It also examined the problems associated with the internalist theories of epistemic justification. Furthermore, it argued for the plausibility of the mentalist version of internalism as a theory of epistemic justification. This was done with a view to grounding the justification of knowledge claims mainly on internal factors without denying significance to external factors. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source included, Bonjour Laurence “Externalism and Internalism”, Ernest Sosa and Bonjour Laurence. Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues, Alston Williams Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology, Fumerton Richard “What and what is Internalism?”, Ralph Wedgwood “Internalism Explained”, Alvin Goldman “Internalism Exposed”, Frederick F.S. Knowledge and Belief and Edmund Gettier’s “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”. The secondary source included books, journal articles and the Internet. The data collected were subjected to critical analysis and philosophical argumentation. The study found that epistemic internalism has various versions. It found that most versions of internalism are not plaussible because they do not account for the role of externality in epistemic justification. Furthermore, the study found that mentalism, as a viariant of internalism, acknowledges the significance of external factors in the justification of knowledge claims. Thus, the study concluded that the viability of the mentalist theories further supports the possibility of the internalist position on epistemic justification. It also found that not all versions of internalism absolutely reject the relevance of externality in epistemic justification.
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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 Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reporting of Some Niger-Delta Issues in Selected Nigerian Newspapers, 1999-2007
(Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife., 2008) Kehinde, Adewale Ayoola
This study examined the setting, topics and participants that were projected in the content and context of reports on the Niger-Delta in selected Nigerian newspapers. It examined the salient linguistic features employed by the writers in their presentations and critically analysed the pragmatic and discourse strategies employed by the participants in the news reports. These were done with the aim of proposing an analytical framework for describing and interpreting Nigerian print media-political discourse.
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A Historical Evaluation of the Western Nigerian Government Agricultural Policy.
(Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Obafemi Awolowo University, 1989) Adesina, Olutayo Charles
This study evaluates the Agricultural policy of the Western regional Government between 1951 and 1966.
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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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A phonological description of the anglicized Yoruba name transcriptions in the Collins online English dictionary and Yoruba native speakers’ perception
(Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2024) Abass, Abiola Sakariyau
This study identified the orthographical representation of selected anglicized Yoruba names in the Collins Online English Dictionary. It described the Yoruba native speakers’ perception of the selected transcribed names and discussed the socio-cultural implications of the transcribed names in language contact situations. This was done with a view to investiging the semantic effects of the phonological transcriptions of the selected Yoruba words in the dictionary. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised 20 names of Yoruba origin extracted from the 13th edition of Collins Online English Dictionary. Twenty-five Yoruba native speakers were purposively selected to undertake verification task and a read-aloud exercise of the selected Yoruba names to assess the accuracy of Yoruba name transcriptions in the dictionary. For the verification task, participants were given an audio recording, along with a partially completed written transcript of the recording and tasked with completing the written transcript by filling in the missing words based on their perception of the audio recording. The goal was to assess their perception of the transcriptions as presented by the dictionary. Similarly, a prepared word list comprising the 20 extracted Yoruba names was presented to each respondent to pronounce while being audio-recorded for the read-aloud exercise, with the aim to capture the actual native-like pronunciation through their audio recordings. Using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the audio-recorded utterances were phonemically transcribed and compared with the Collins Online English Dictionary version to ascertain the faithfulness of the dictionary to Yoruba name transcriptions. The secondary source included books, journal articles n and the Internet. Theoretical insights were drawn from Keshavarz’s (2011) approach to Contrastive Analysis and the concept of faithfulness in the Optimality Theory of McCarthy (2002) to analyse the data. Findings revealed that the process of anglicization of the selected Yoruba names in the Collins Online English Dictionary involves various phonological adjustments ranging from vowel substitutions and consonant replacements to the adaptation of tone structures within Yoruba names. The study found that Yoruba native speakers exhibited diverse perceptions of the transcribed names. It discovered that while some names are uniformly perceived, others show variations, indicating potential transcription-related influences. The study further showed that the omission of tone markers in the anglicized version not only simplifies the representation but also risks misinterpretation, affecting the accurate conveyance of cultural meanings associated with these words. The study concluded that English dictionaries need to offer more precise and culturally aware transcriptions of Yoruba names, taking into account their phonological features, thus mitigating potential misrepresentations in identity and cross-cultural communication.
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A semiotic analysis of linguistic and visual features of statues of selected legendary figures in Yorubaland
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2015) Adefolaju Adefunke Adedayo
The study identified the semiotic components of some Yoruba legendary statues. It analysed the linguistic and visual anchorages that accompany the statues. It further described the social values, cultural and political identities and stances expressed by the linguistic and visual features of the statues. All these were done with a view to enriching the knowledge of statues as a phenomenon of language and foregrounding the discourse wealth of statues as semiotic signifiers of socio-historical significance. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised eleven statues which were purposively selected from six cities in Yorubaland. The selected cities were Ondo, Ile-Ife, Oke-mesi, Ibadan and Abeokuta. The selected statues were closely read with particular attention to their linguistic and non-linguistic meaning making modes. The secondary sources included books, journal articles and the Internet. The analysis of the data was guided by van Leeuwen's Social semiotics and Martins and White's Appraisal theory. The findings showed that the selected statues were composed of primary and secondary signifiers. The study also found that the statues were accompanied by such verbal anchorages as epithets of appreciation and affective memory, nominal signifiers of heroism, positive terms of address, verb signifiers of impressive attitude and local configuration/eulogies. There were also visual anchorages such as warfare symbolism, religion symbols, animal and material signifiers. All these served as indices of affective evaluation. The findings further showed that the statues portrayed such social values as bravery, courage, hard work, enterprise, integrity and patriotism. It was found that legendary statues inscribed leadership, power, social and economic identities, and that their producers also utilised the products to construct stances of positive alignment and judgement which pointed to their attachment to the values which the statues signify. The study concluded that statues of Yoruba legendary figures are discourse products because they elucidated the concepts of power, identity and ideology, which were the subjects of modern day discourse. It also concluded that the statues were semiotic signifiers of the Yoruba socio-cultural realities.
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A study of pentecostal spirituality in christian home video films in Southwestern Nigeria
(Department of Religious studies, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2012) Ajibade, Mobolaji Oyebisi
The study discussed the place of the Nigerian video films in the activities of Pentecostals in southwestern Nigeria and also examined the impact of the economy and globalisation on the practices of Pentecostal churches in Nigeria as presented in the selected home video films.
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A stylistic analysis of selected press conference speeches of the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed (2015 – 2023)
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2024) Uwalaka, Edith Nkechinyere
This study identified the social premises of the selected press conference speeches of Lai Mohammed. It also categorised the discursive news values features in the press conference speeches. It further analysed the identified discursive news values features in the speeches in terms of their lexico-semantic and grammatical forms and related them to the Nigerian contexts of the press conferences. This was done with a view to illuminating the linguistic forms and newsworthy social, political and economic issues in the press conference speeches as well as characterising Lai Mohammed’s idiolect. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised four purposively selected video clips of the press conference speeches of Lai Mohammed titled “EndSARS Protest: No Evidence of Killing at Lekki Tollgate”; “Lagos #EndSARS Report Riddled with Errors, Inconsistencies. Discrepancies, Speculation and Innuendoes”; “We did not Ban Twitter, only Suspended it;” and “Banditry, Kidnapping not Federal Government Offence.” These press conferences were selected because they addressed issues of national interest and international importance. The selected speeches were downloaded from YouTube. The downloaded video clips were played using mp4 media player and the verbal aspect was manually transcribed into written texts. The secondary source comprised books, journal articles and the Internet. The transcribed texts were analysed using the principles of Stylistics and Discursive News Values Analysis. The results showed that Lai Mohammed built his speeches on the social premises of insecurity, unemployment, corruption, agitation for secession, terrorism, national unity and stability with a view to calling the attention of the masses to the challenges facing the government as well as the government’s commitment to solving them. The study also revealed that Lai Mohammed used Discursive News Values Analysis features such as eliteness, personalisation, timeliness, superlativeness, unexpectedness, negativity, proximity and positivity news values to construct newsworthiness in the press conferences. The results further showed that Lai Mohammed employed lexico-semantic features such as address term, role label, noun and attitudinal epithet, hyponymy, antonymy, verbs and adverbs to construct news values. The study found that grammatical forms such as simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, compound-complex sentences and syntactic parallelism were also employed by Lai Mohammed to construct news values in order to convey detailed information and to lay emphasis. The analysis of the linguistic resources of the discourse under study took into consideration the socio-cultural and political implications of the discursive news values in relation to the context of the discourse and the larger Nigerian society. The study concluded that press conference discourse is characterised with linguistic forms as well as social, political and economic issues that are used by politicians to communicate newsworthy meanings and stances.
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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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An examination of female ritual authority in oya festival in Oyo town.
(Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2024) ORIGBO Tina Onome
This study focused on the examination of female ritual authority in Ọya festival, Oyo town. The study examined the history of Ọya festival in Ọ̀yọ́ town, it also discussed the spirituality of female ritual power as exhibited by the Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess) and Arugbá (votary maid). Furthermore, this was done with a view to evaluated the significance of Ọya festival for women in Yoruba indigenous tradition. This study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source included oral interviews and participant observation. The oral interviews were conducted with 14 purposively selected respondents which included; the Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess), Arugbá (votary maid), six Ọya devotees (3 males and 3 females), and six indigenes of Ọ̀yọ́ town who were conversant with Ọya (3 males and 3 females). The secondary source included books, journal articles, and materials surfed on the Internet. The data collected was analysed using phenomenological approach. The study discovered that Ọya festival has a historical linkage to Ọ̀yọ́ town. The result discovered that female ritual power is in existence in Ọya festival which is exhibited by Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess) and Arugbá (votary maid). The result showed that, within Yoruba indigenous tradition, the Ọya festival holds greater importance for women. The study concluded that despite that Ọya festival has been largely overlooked, it plays a crucial role in showcasing the significance of women ritual power in the festival. Furthermore, the study established a historical connection between Ọya and Ọ̀yọ́ town, and it contributed to a deeper understanding of indigenous festivals in Yorubaland.
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An examination of female ritual authority in Oya festival in Oyo town.
(Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2024) Origbo, Tina Onome
This study focused on the examination of female ritual authority in Ọya festival, Oyo town. The study examined the history of Ọya festival in Ọ̀yọ́ town, it also discussed the spirituality of female ritual power as exhibited by the Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess) and Arugbá (votary maid). Furthermore, this was done with a view to evaluated the significance of Ọya festival for women in Yoruba indigenous tradition. This study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source included oral interviews and participant observation. The oral interviews were conducted with 14 purposively selected respondents which included; the Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess), Arugbá (votary maid), six Ọya devotees (3 males and 3 females), and six indigenes of Ọ̀yọ́ town who were conversant with Ọya (3 males and 3 females). The secondary source included books, journal articles, and materials surfed on the Internet. The data collected was analysed using phenomenological approach. The study discovered that Ọya festival has a historical linkage to Ọ̀yọ́ town. The result discovered that female ritual power is in existence in Ọya festival which is exhibited by Ìyá-ọya (chief priestess) and Arugbá (votary maid). The result showed that, within Yoruba indigenous tradition, the Ọya festival holds greater importance for women. The study concluded that despite that Ọya festival has been largely overlooked, it plays a crucial role in showcasing the significance of women ritual power in the festival. Furthermore, the study established a historical connection between Ọya and Ọ̀yọ́ town, and it contributed to a deeper understanding of indigenous festivals in Yorubaland.
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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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Ayewo igbekale iwa odaran ninu fiimu agbelewo yoruba.
(Department of African languages and literatures, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria., 2004) Odejobi, Cecilia Omobola.
This study examined the presentation of crime in Yoruba home video films, a form of documented Yoruba oral performance within a sociological perspective. It appraised the nuances embedded in Yoruba home video film's language.
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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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Examinig Displacement and Quest for Home in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's Buried Beneath Baobab Tree and Edify Yakusak's After they Left.
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts , Obafemi Awolowo Univeristy ., 2023) Adeoye Mary Oluwaferanmi
This study identified and discussed the representations of pain and violence in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree and Edify Yakusak’s After They Left. It examined the psychological impacts of displacements on victims in the selected texts. It also discussed the portrayal of home and survival. This was done with a view to determining the effects of displacements and quests for the home on the victims of violence in the selected texts.
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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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Imperialism in Okun Bida Yoruba in the nineteenth century.
(Department of History, Faculty of Art, Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 1986) Jide E. Ige
This study examines Bida imperialism in Okun- Yoruba in the nineteenth century. A background information is provided on Okun – Yoruba society, especially the various indigenous political, social and economic institutions some of which were totally or partially changed by Bida domination

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