This research is titled: â€�“ANALYTICAL AND LITERARY STUDY OF EMOTION AND ITS ARTISTIC EFFECT IN ANTHOLOGY OF QHADI UMAR IBRAHIM „HADIQATUL AZHAARâ€Â�‟â€Â� the research comprises four chapters and a conclusion. It contains a study of artistic effect of passion in the formation of poem. In chapter one, the reasons, objectives, i... Continue Reading
Stress and its fatal consequences on health negatively affect the job performance and productivity of academic staff in our educational institutions. Against this backdrop, this research was carried out to assess the communication of stress management for healthy living and higher productivity among the academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Continue Reading
The Hausa films do face a lot of challenges from scholars, clerics and parents with regard to their theme, plot, costume, language, characters and characterizations. Whereas, some viewers argue that the films do not portray the customs, norms and values of Hausa society they claim to belong. While some of the producers and characters argue that the... Continue Reading
This study is a linguistic stylistic analysis of Helon Habila‟s Waiting for an Angel (WFA) and Measuring Time (MT). The research investigates the linguistic and stylistic features in both texts and the stylistic significance of Habila‟s choice of style. The research sets out, to identify the commonalities of linguistic features recurren... Continue Reading
This study is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Frederick Douglass‘ Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs‘ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in relation to solitude and loneliness. This is born out of the fact that previous studies in Slave Narratives have focused more on sociological aspect of slavery. Thi... Continue Reading
Watching movies has become a common phenomenon among adolescents due to the technological advancement of media tools which are easily accessible to them. The challenge is that watching violent movies can have detrimental effects on the psychological development of adolescents as well as that of the society at large. This study therefore focused on ... Continue Reading
The subject matter of the study is the role of women in the colonial economy of Idoma Division during the period 1908-1960. The objective of the study was to examine and assess the role of women in the colonial economy of Idoma Divison during the period1908-1960. Colonialism placed serious burden on women, through the imposition of policies of colo... Continue Reading
This study explores how linguistic structures were deployed to bring out meaning in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise. The analyses are carried out using linguistic stylistic methods and principles to investigate Morrison’s unique style in the selected novels. To achieve this objective, the research examines the lexico-syntactic an... Continue Reading
Human language is primarily characterized by sounds formed and produced by the Organs of Speech. This dissertation entitled; â€�“A Phonological Description of the Two-Word Stage of Language Acquisition: A Case Study of an English-Hausa Bilingualâ€Â� particularly considered the sound development of a child at two-word stage. The area of focus ... Continue Reading
This dissertation titled: A postmodernist Representation in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Flowers and Shadows is premised on the argument that irrespective of their individual themes, novels are significant mechanisms of presentation or representation of thoughts and ideas through semblances circumscribed by narration or telling, all of w... Continue Reading
This Dissertation titled „A Socio-pragmatic study of Ohafia Proverbs‟ was embarked upon by the researcher with the aim of drawing the attention of the Ohafia dialect speakers, proverb users, linguists, and the world to the dynamics, as well as the peculiarities associated with the use of Ohafia proverbs. This is done by pointing out the... Continue Reading
This work titled ÂÂ�ProblÃÂ�mes de production orale des apprenants du franÃÂ�ais langue ÃÂ�trangÃÂ�re (FLE) : le cas des apprenants de A.B.U., ZariaÂÂ� is aimed at identifying the underlying root causes of oral expression difficulties that is a major challenge among the majority of Nigeria French Language students taking as case study the stu... Continue Reading
Using Lara Foot Newton’s Reach! and Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog, this study explores the manner in which this selected South African playwrights deploy the themes of memory, trauma and therapy in their works as a means of recounting the horrific experiences of the apartheid regime, and the effects of these experiences on person... Continue Reading
Cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other materials. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together (Balter, 2009). The words fabric and clo... Continue Reading