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DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES OF IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN SELECTED SPEECHES OF SIR ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA OF NIGERIA

To gain political power, political actors often times adopt linguistic and rhetorical strategies that help them to communicate effectively with their intended audience. This has reinvigorated the study of language of politics as an academic practice. This study carries out a critical discourse analysis of selected speeches of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Ba...

IDIOMS AS LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS

All idioms have at least two meanings; the linguistic meaning of the words and phrases themselves, and the stipulated idiomatic meaning. The meaning of idioms can be acquired, while that of the familiar idioms could either be retrieved or transformationally generated. Retrieval would be accomplished by direct access to stipulated idiomatic meaning,...

PATTERN OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF AN IGALA CHILD

This study, entitled 'Patterns of language acquisition of an Igala child' was designed to find out how an Igala child acquire language (ie Igala). The theoretical framework adopted for the study is Behaviourism as propounded by Jean Piaget. There are many theories or models that explain how children learn language. But, hitherto, no single theory h...