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

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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 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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    Sentence formation needs of Yoruba speaking senior secondary school pupils and sentence inputs in their English coursebooks
    (Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife., 2003) Asiyanbola, Akinola Akintunde
    The study identified the major English sentence types used by senior secondary school pupils in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States. It is also accounted for some important sentence types that were avoided by this set of learners in their writings and their other sentence formation needs. It was against this background that the study evaluated the presentation of sentence types in the grammar units of Senior English project (SEP), Effective English (EE) and Intensive English (IE) used in Nigerian senior secondary schools.
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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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    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.