Discourse-stylistics, sociolinguistics and society
Subtitle: a festschrift for Ayo Ogunsiji
By: edited by Ayo Osisanwo, Ibrahim Olaosun, Idowu Odebode
Contributors: Ogunsiji, Ayo, contributor; Mbarah, George Ogbonna, contributor; Medubi, Oyinkan, contributor; Alagbe, Joseph, contributor; Gajir, Terrumun Hembaor, contributor; Adegoke, Tajudeen J., contributor; Adebayo, Taofeeq A., contributor; John, Fredrick F.G., contributor; Okunlola, Tola, contributor; Olaniyan, Solomon O., contributor; Adhuze, Helen I., contributor; Ogazie, Charles A., contributor; Àjàyí, F. T., contributor; Ladapo, Folorunso Oladeji, contributor; Chinaguh, Emmanuel, contributor; Aremu, Moses Adebayo, contributor; Olubakin, Vivian O., contributor; Kalejaiye, Abiola S., contributor; Ojo, J. O. (Johnson Oludare), contributor; Asowata, L. L., contributor; Adepoju, Olalekan Tunde, contributor; Lamidi, Idayat Modupe, contributor; Farinde, Raifu Olanrewaju, contributor; Oyebamiji, Mojirayo Patricia, contributor; Ogunsiji, Y. M., contributor; Olaseinde, J. A., contributor; Oji, Ruth Karachi, contributor; Adeyanju, Adegboye, contributor; Oyeleye, Albert Lekan, contributor; Oduola, M. Lekan, contributor; Babatunde, Sola Timothy, contributor; Bamgbose, Ganiu, contributor; Akinmameji, Oluwayemisi Olusola, contributor; Ogunsiji, Oladayo, contributor; Olaifa, Lydia Tomilola, contributor; Okunola, Temilola, contributor
Publisher: Stirling-Horden Publishers Ltd.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9789780327019
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Discourse analysis; English literature; Study and teaching; Language and languages; Style
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; title: Section A: Introduction of Ayo Ogunsiji. Marrying scholarship and Yoruba Culture: (Chief) prof. Ayo Ognnsiji, a cultured scholar / George Ogbonna Mbarah; title: Section B: Langaage, style and literary perspectives in texts. Proverbs and metaphors at the crossroads: The example of Soyiaka's Tfie Swamp Dwellers / Oyinkan Medubi ; Literature in the eye of semiotics: Illustrations from Aeliebe's Anthllls of the Savannah / Ibrahim Olaosun ; Language and social status in Wole Soyinka's The Beatificalion of Area Boy: A stylistic approach / Joseph Alagbe ; The structural and textual signification of endophoric reference in Adichie's novels / Terrumun Hembaor Gajir ; A stylistic study of the motivated local metaphors in Niyi Osundare's Village Voices / Tajudeen J. Adegoke & Taofeeq A. Adebayo ; Identity frames and the politics of fear in Olu Obafemi's Nights of a Mystical Beast / Fredrick F.G. John ; Style in the translation of proverbs in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Akinwumi Isola's Iku Olokun-Esin / Tola Okunlola ; Imagining society in Remi Raji's Gather My Blood Rivers of Song / Solomon O. Olaniyan ; Speaking the language of the Earth / Helen I. Adhuze, Charles A. Ogazie & F. T. Ajayi ; Nature signs in Bayo Adebowale's Village Harvest / Folorunso Oladeji Ladapo; title: Section C: Discourse, applied linguistics and sociolinguistic tendencies. Rhetorical relations in presidential concession speeches of Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and John Mahama of Ghana / Ayo Osisanwo & Emmanuel Chinaguh ; An action theory analysis of a south-western Nigerian Christian deliverance discourse / Moses Adebayo Aremu ; The English mood system in the language of courtroom interrogations / Vivian O. Olubakin & Abiola S. Kalejaiye ; Disambiguating amphibolies in English through tree diagramming / J.O. Ojo & L.L. Asowata ; Handling public faces: A discursive analysis of 2015 presidential media chat in Nigeria / Olalekan Tunde Adepoju ; Pragmatic presupposition in Facebook-sponsored advertisements / Idayat Modupe Lamidi ; Interrogation in Nigerian police-suspect discourse / Raifa Olanrewaju Farinde ; A critical study of advocacy discourse and visuals on human trafficking and terrorism in Nigeria / Mojirayo Patricia Oyebamiji ; Role and practical utilities of languages in the south-western part of Nigeria / Yemi Ogunsiji & J.A. Olaseinde ; Mental and context models of ideological expressions of participants in Nigerian television talk shows / Ruth Karachi Oji ; Between adequacy and expediency: A comparative assessment of the general studies English programme in Nigerian polytechnics and universities / Adegboye Adeyanju; title: Section D: Pragmatics and meaning in contexts. Social pragmatics in the aspects of cohesion in Nigerian Pentecostal church sermons / A. Lekan Oyeleye & M. Lekan Oduola ; Impoliteness strategies and cognition in Niyi Osundare's Return of the Penkelemesi Era / Sola Timothy Babatunde & Moses Adebayo Aremu ; The pragmatics of interrogative responses in spoken discourses in selected higher institutions in Ibadan / Ganiu Bamgbose ; Persuasive strategies in selected speeches of Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo / Oluwayemisi Olusola Akinmameji ; Politeness strategies in network marketing discourse in the Nigerian context / Oladayo Ogunsiji ; Language and power relations in billboard advertisements of drinks in Ibadan metropolis / Lydia Tomilola Olaifa ; Speech acts in Goodluck Jonathan's inaugural speech / Idowu Odebode & Temilola Okunola; title: Section E: A tip from the honoree's intellectual spring. The power and politics of language: The challenges of language policies and choice in the multilingual Nigerian setting / Ayo Ogunsiji; title: Index; title: A short biodata of professor Ayo Ogunsiji; title: Notes on editors.