Essays on language, communication and literature in Africa /
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Section One Language and Communication in African Societies
- ch. One Saved by the School Bell: A Reality or a Delusion? / Joyce T. Mathangwane
- ch. Two The Standardization and "Officialization" of Cameroonian Creole English: Challenges and Prospects / Aloysius Ngefac
- ch. Three Barriers to the Use of Zambian Languages in Education and the Media / John Simwinga
- ch. Four Persuasion and Politeness Strategies in Multilingual Nigerian Urban Market Haggling Exchanges / Moses Alo
- ch. Five The Semantic Contents of Selected Yoruba Proverbs / Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
- ch. Six The Generic Structure of a Public Hearing / F.O. Unuabonah
- ch. Seven Communicative Behaviour in Child Welfare Clinics in Southwestern Nigeria / Taiwo Abioye
- ch. Eight A Pragmatic Analysis of the English of Nigerian Nursery School Pupils / Bola Shakirat Ijaiya
- ch. Nine Visual Language and Stone Carving in Twenty-first Century Yorubaland: The Case of Buremo Olokuta / Moses Akintonde
- ch. Ten The Visual Semantics of Adire / Margaret Olugbemisola Areo
- ch. Eleven Tenor of Discourse in General Ibrahim Babangida's Independence Day Broadcasts / Kazeem Kolawole Olaniyan
- ch. Twelve A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in "Open Letters to President Olusegun Obasanjo" in Selected Nigerian Newspapers / Ikenna Kamalu
- ch. Thirteen Different Label, Different Ideology: A Critical Stylistic Interpretation of Political News Reports on the Niger Delta Crisis / Chuka-Fred Ononye
- ch. Fourteen On the Politics of the Internationalisation of Nigerian Hip Hop Lyrics
- Section Two Literature, Language and Style
- ch. Fifteen "Talking" Igbo, "Writing" English: Nigerianisms in The Concubine / Romanus Aboh
- ch. Sixteen Translating Manama Ba into Kiswahili: A Post-colonial and Intertextual Reading / James Omboga Zaja
- ch. Seventeen The Play and Interplay of Intertextuality: Examining the Poetics of Influence in Kiswahili Literature / Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
- ch. Eighteen Indigenous Beliefs and Modernity: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow / Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo
- ch. Nineteen In Their Father's House: Soyinka, Appiah and the Politics of Africa's Philosophy of Culture / James Tar Tsaaior
- ch. Twenty Oil Politics, State and the Praxis of Agency in Nigerian Political Drama and Theatre / Adebayo Mosobalaje
- ch. Twenty-One Referentiality in Femi Osofisan's Midnight Hotel / Adeniyi Osunbade
- ch. Twenty-Two Indexicality and Characterization in Wole Soyinka's Ake / K.K. Olaniyan
- ch. Twenty-Three Marginalization of Women in Selected Plays of Shakespeare / Lami C. Adama
- ch. Twenty-Four O bu Igbo, English, ka O bu Engiligbo? Language Choice and Igbo Narrative Authenticity / Chiji Akoma.