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    Social Support, Quality of Couples Relationship and Perceived Post-Natal Depression among Public Primary School Teachers in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Oyo State
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Toluwalope Olivia KING
    This study therefore investigated the relationship between social support and quality of couples relationship and post-natal depression among public primary school teachers in Ibadan North Local Government area, Oyo state. This study examined the relationship the three variables as it had not been done before and made use of the middle-range biological theory, the social capital theory and the operant conditioning theory. The research design used was descriptive survey; the population of 600 teachers in public primary schools were used. The total population from each public primary school at Ibadan north Local Government was used, the schools were 73 in number. The researcher made use of the research instrument SSCRPND1. The Questionnaire had four (4) subscales: the knowledge of post-natal depression (0.80), the EPDS (0.87), MSPSS (0.94) and CSI (0.84). Descriptive statistics, including frequency count, percentages, mean, and standard deviation, were utilized to answer the research questions. Inferential statistical tools of the Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. The Pearson’s correlation coefficients obtained were (x= -0.141) and (x=-0.149) and the p values were (p= 0.012) and (0.014) which suggested that the correlation between social support and postpartum depression, couples relationship and post- natal depression were not statistically significant. In conclusion both social support and couples relationship have a strong relationship with post-natal depression in the lives of the teachers of public primary schools of Ibadan North Local Government area, Ibadan. It is recommended among others that, awareness should be created in schools all over the nation about PPD, is effects and its preventive measures. Keywords: Couples Relationship, Social Support, Perceived Post-Natal Depression, Public Primary School Teachers. Word count: 274
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    Pragmatic Analysis of Rapport Management in Posts and Replies by Twitter Users in Nigeria
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Obaloluwa Ezekiel OYEDEJI
    This study examined (im)polite use of language by users of Twitter in Nigeria. It highlights how face and sociality rights are affected by tweets and replies on the platform. Nigerian users of language on the platform experience “dragging”, that is mass disapproval of their tweets on the platform which impacts their mental health. Moreover, existing studies did not examine the use of language by Twiiter users in Nigeria to either manage or mismanage rapport on the social media platform. This study therefore creates an awareness of how language use on the platform impacts rapport between users and shows how this results in either harmony (positive rapport) or disharmony (negative rapport). The framework used for analysis is rapport management model by Helen Spencer-Oatey. The study adopted content analysis. Screenshots of tweets posted on Twitter and between January, 2021 and January 2023 by Twitters users in Nigeria make up the population for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 39 samples which contain instances of (im)politeness, rights infringement and rights acknowledgement/support. Findings of the study indicated that there are 17 instances of the use of language in the form of insults, 4 instances of the use of language in the form of unpalatable questions/presuppositions, 2 instances of language in the form of pointed criticisms and 7 instances of the use of language in the form of personalized positive assertion. Only 7 instances involve the use of personalized positive assertion, which means that all other instances take the form of impolite usage. It is therefore concluded that Nigerian users of Twitter make use of impolite language more than polite language. It is recommended that Nigerian users of Twitter should be sensitized on the usage of impolite language on the platform and its effect on relationship with others, both on-line and offline. Keywords: Pragmatic Analysis, Rapport Management, Posts and Replies by Twitter Users, Nigeria Word Count: 300 Pragmatic Analysis, Rapport Management, Posts and Replies by Twitter Users, Nigeria
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    Historical Realities and the Postcolonial Discourse in Selected Plays of Ahmed Yerima
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Olumuyiwa Paul OLAYINKA
    Historical realities of Africa. Therefore, the theatre space provides the avenue where such lived experiences are re-enacted, and challenged. Ahmed Yerima's theatrical endeavour follows in this pursuit, with creative dimensions. His selected plays are examined in this thesis to provide an ethnocultural perspective to the historical realities of leadership, governance, socio-economic and communal engagements that depict the plays enactment of history as prevalent in contemporary Nigeria. New Historicism, which argues essentially that every literary text is a product, reflection and refraction of actual historical realities and Postcolonialism, which seeks to explore among other things the effects of colonialism on both the colonised and the coloniser, are utilised to critically situate the plays in context, with thematic discourse, characterisation and dramatic techniques deployed for elucidation. The study accentuates play-texts, as veritable tools for historical reconstruction and development that depict leadership assertion, conflicts of tradition, religion, identity, power and economic sustenance of the past and present, in contemporary Nigeria. Keywords: Coloniser, Colonised, Historical Realities, ethnocultural, Postcolonial theory, New Historicism Word Count: 169 words
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    Ecocritical Reading of Amma Darko’s Faceless
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Taiwo Oladunni OJELEYE
    The human race has reached the age of environmental limits, a time when the consequences of human actions are damaging the planet’s basic life support system. Previous studies have examined nature and grief through Eco critical analysis of grief in children’s literature, as well as land use and apocalypse in cleanliness among others. This study will focus on the relationship between nature and human being and also analyze how AmmaDarko presents the regional and connotative interpretations of ecological referents in the selected text. The study adopts Ecocritical theory and descriptive design approach. Date is gathered from AmmaDarko’s literary text; Faceless. The data is analyzed with the use of textual analysis. The findings of this study shows that environment concerns in the novel are intertwined with social issues such as poverty and corruption; reflecting the human costs of environmental degradation and pollution, as symbolic to degradation of life, dreams and aspirations. Ecocriticism takes its subject as the interconnection between nature and culture and especially language and literature as a critical stance, it has one foot in literature and the other is on land. Keywords: Ecocriticism, environment degradation, nature, pollution. Word Count:198
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    Critical Pragmatic Analysis of Online Discourses of Nigerians in the Diaspora
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Abolanle Nureni DAIRO
    The current state in Nigeria whereby numerous Nigerians deliberately embark on emigration from Nigeria to European and Asian nations to search for greener pasture calls for concern. The need to create awareness about their experiences and feelings through their language use motivated this study which aimed at investigating the critical pragmatic analysis of online discourses of Nigerians in the diaspora. This study aims to identify the recurrent themes in their online discourses. Moreover, this study also identified and analysed the critical pragmatic elements and speech acts features in the online discourses of Nigerians in the diaspora. The study used a qualitative method employing a descriptive analysis design. The data source of this study is collected from Facebook and Twitter. The data are observed and transcribed into written form. Furthermore, the data are categorised into various stances and ideologies taken by the interlocutors. The results showed that Nigerians in the diaspora have several ideologies and stances that are reflected in their utterance e.g. stances on education, culture, religion, economy and politics; and the manifestation of ideologies e.g. patriotism, racism, fanaticism and democracy. The results show that there are three kinds of illocutionary acts which are performed on Facebook and Twitter, they are representative, expressive and directive. The result of the present study shows that Facebook and Twitter handlers among Nigerians in the diaspora tended to convey their utterances by stating facts, to direct and express feelings and experiences about Nigeria and the host nation. Keywords: Diaspora, Migration, Social Media, Critical Pragmatics, Online Discourses, Speech Acts, Nigerians in the Diaspora Words Count: 244
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    Language and Identity Construction on Facebook and Nairaland in Nigeria
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Abosede Bukola ALABI
    The representation or performance of identity has become a notorious feature of domestic online interactions. Previous linguistic studies have focused more on the linguistic and stylistic features of online communication, with little attention paid to the meta representations of identities. Therefore, this study examined identity portrayal in Facebook and Nairaland interactions, with a view to analysing the factors that underly identity representations and the performative (illocutions) acts. Performativity theory by Judith Butler, supported by Herbert Blumer’s model of symbolic interactionism and M.A.K Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics served as the framework. The qualitative design was employed. Purposive sampling was used to select 100 post and comments, 50 from Facebook, and 50 from Nairaland, due to their vast followership. Data was subjected to pragmatic analysis. Five common factors conditioned identity representations in Facebook and Nairaland, namely, age, national, ethnicity/religion, gender and group aggression. Condescender, progressor, regressor, and leveler were identified as age-based identities. Gender conditioned chauvinist, welfarist, seducer, dependent/independent, and patronizer identities. Ethnicity and religion produced chauvinist, opportunist, and entitlement identities. Group aggression produced the solidarist, activist, revolutionist, compromiser, and encourager/circularist identities. The identity representations were projected by performatives acts, namely, performative verbs, descriptive adjectival with performative actions, nominal performatives, and modal – conditional performatives. Pragmatic markers, namely, reference, inference, metaphor, and metapragmatic acts played key roles in the performance or representation of the identities in Facebook and Nairaland interactions. The performative and pragmatic approach clarifies the intricacies of identity in interactions in digital spaces that is growingly polarised by contemporary political influence and tactics. Keywords: Symbolic interactionism, Performative acts, Identity construction, Mediated discourse Word Count: 250
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    Pragmatic Acts in Selected Sermons of Bishop David Oyedepo
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) Oludolapo Olufunmilayo ADELAKUN
    This study examined the pragmatic acts in selected sermons of Bishop David Oyedepo accounting for the pragmatic features of the sermons. The study identified the thematic preoccupation of the sermons, described the underlying contexts, analysed the pragmatic acts and explained the pragmatic implications of the sermons. Using exclusively the resources of Jacob Mey’s 2001 pragmatic act theory as framework, the methodology is qualitative. The research design is content analysis of four purposively selected sermons out of an average of eleven thousand, eight hundred and eight sermons. Data was sourced and collected online employing the top-down content analytical approach in revealing the thematic content of the sermons, the underlying context of the themes, the pragmatic acts and their implications. The work highlights the themes of gratitude, faith, marriage, financial dominion, giving and humility within the contextual constraints of history, philosophy, prayer, war, relationship and thanksgiving. The themes and underlying contexts runs through the cores of the practs performed, the practs of assuring, informing, re-enlightening, notifying/clarifying, illustrating/exemplifying, prompting/ instructing/ directing, confessing/prophesying, warning/advising. The findings reveal that fifty-nine excerpts were analysed from the data, six pragmatic themes identified, six pragmatic contexts established, eight practs classified with four pragmatic implications discovered all interjected with pragmatic tools of relevance (REL), inference (INF), reference (REF), shared situation knowledge (SSK), voice (VCE), metaphor (M) and conversational acts which runs through the data. The pragmatic implications explained the evocation of the power of God, demystifying the personality of God, lexicalizing historical antecedents and reiterating divine assurances. The study is a significant addition to existing studies on the application of Mey’s Pragmatic theory to the study of religious discourse and a veritable tool for advancing pedagogical skills in mission schools and churches. The study recommends further studies employing multiple theoretical frameworks. Keywords: pragmatics, sermons, practs, pragmatic act theory, prayer
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    Comparative Study of Linguistic Features in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel and Philippe Laburthe’s - Tolra’s Le lion et la Perle
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) Olayinka Omolara FAWOLE
    Interlingual and intercultural communication has some direct bearing on translation. They correspond at the level of both formal and informal contexts. Drama which is one of the genres of literature production is written to mimic societal norms and practices. When such text is translated, issues of similarities and differences will not be far from such endeavour. Such recognition led Nida to put forward Dynamic Equivalence, which brings the receptor to the center of the communication. The concept of Equivalence shift focus from the form of the message to the response of the receptor. Therefore, this study interrogates the similarities and/ or differences between the two texts through the lenses of comparative linguistics. Using qualitative research techniques, the study adopted a content analysis research design using linguistic feature analysis of the chosen texts with some insights from Nida’s concept of Dynamic Equivalence of the French-translated version of Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel. Findings revealed that while both texts are very much alike as the translator of the French version demonstrates a high level of fidelity to the source text; yet, a few instances of divergence can be identified especially at the graphological, semantic, lexical, and pragmatic levels. For instance, while Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel is much more presented like a poetic rendition reflecting the nature and literary enigma of the writer, Laburthe-Tolra's Le Lion et la Perle is more of a prosaic rendition the study concluded that stylistics, as adopted in this study has shown that there is more to what is said than what the actual words convey. Keywords: Comparative study, Linguistic features, Multilingualism, Source text, Text-linguistics,
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    Language Use among Road Transport Workers in Abeokuta Metropolis, Ogun State, Nigeria
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) Olusola Olufunmilayo TITILOYE
    Language use among informal social groups in the society has not been accorded its right of place, as these groups of individuals tend to be looked down upon by most people in the society. However, the oratorical skills, and the creativity they exhibit through language use tend to contribute immensely to the vast repertoire of language in the society. Though assumed to be filled with oddities, absurdities, vulgarity and obscenities, language use among road transport workers is usually mutually intelligible. It is filled with numerous linguistic and extra-linguistic features and richly laden with multiplicity of linguistic flavour deployed in achieving specified objectives. This study was therefore carried out to investigate language use among road transport workers in Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis. The Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory provided the theoretical anchor for the study, while the descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative instrument were adopted for the study. The study identified Yoruba and Pidgin English as the languages mostly used by road transport workers in Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis. The features of the languages identified in this study indicate coinages, code mixing, neologism, code switching and slangs which are found to be prominent in the languages identified in the study. The languages were used for salutation, deliberate deception, cracking expensive jokes, expressing amplifications, carrying out bulldozing effects, expressing knowledge of places, disabusing the minds of people and so on. Basically, languages are used to execute specified functions among road transport workers in the various Motor Parks in Abeokuta Metropolis. Keywords: Abeokuta Metropolis, Language use, Nigeria, Ogun State, Road Transport Workers
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    Sociolinguistic Analysis of Reduplication and Semantic Extension of Undergraduates’ Utterances in Lead City University, Ibadan
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) Oluwamayowa Samuel LAWAL
    Nigerian English has become an acceptable variety of the English language, and therefore, has gained much attention from linguists lately. Some of the focus areas are phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. This study was to do a sociolinguistic analysis of reduplication and semantic extension of undergraduates’ utterances in Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State. The objectives of this study included identification of the instances of lexical, semantic reduplication and semantic extension, and identification of the sociolinguistic features (types and functions) of lexical, semantic reduplication and semantic extension in their utterances. This study adopted a descriptive approach for the analysis of data. The data comprised the recordings made from the focused group discussion sessions conducted with students of Lead City University. The recordings were transcribed and analysed; the instances of reduplication and semantic extension as well as the features (types and functions) were identified using Mardheya Alsamadani’s and Samar Taibah and Kimi Akita’s frameworks respectively. The frequency of the occurrences of the phenomena was also determined. The results showed that reduplication and semantic extension existed among Lead City University undergraduates who are second language users of the English language, whereas, reduplication was mostly used. This study recommended that Nigerian English dictionaries should be worked on so as to create awareness and make Nigerian English lexicology popular and reachable to all Nigerians at home and in diaspora. The study concluded that although the phenomena, reduplication and semantic extension, exist among Lead City University undergraduates, notwithstanding, their existence did not portray deviation from the norms, rather, it revealed variation and identity. The study found that the phenomena being analysed did not in any way affect or disrupt effective communication among undergraduates. Keywords: Interference, Lexical reduplication, Nigerian English, Semantic extension, Semantic reduplication, Sociolinguistics Word Count: 278