Most Read Linguistics and Communication Project Topics and Materials (Page 3)

ABSTRACT This work is on the language use of olokun deity. In this work, I shall look at the type of language use in olokun in Edo language, attempt shall be made to look at the different types of language used by the oraclist in divination and the use of proverbs when... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT This work investigates how meaning is derived in an utterance through cartoons. It aimed at a pragmatic analysis of selected cartoons from these Nigerian dailies: The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation, in order to know the... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT Stylistics is the study of linguistic and non linguistic aspects of style in spoken and written text. Advertising is a form of communication used to help sell products and services. Adverts are not just to fascinate, but rather, they are used by advertisers to achieve... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0   INTRODUCTION This chapter is centered on the introductory part of the whole essay. It shows brief historical background of the Yukuben language speakers. As a matter of introduction to a general survey of the study of the Yukuben language morphology, on attention is drawn to the family head of the various... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1              Introduction The chapter introduces us to the general background, historical background, socio-cultural profile and genetic classification of the Gùngáwá people. It also includes the scope and organization of study, theoretical framework, data analysis... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE 1.0     INTRODUCTION             Communication in the society happens chiefly by means of language. However, the users of language, as social beings, communicate and use language within the context as society; society controls... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION General Background This study examines aspects of Kuturmi phonology, a language spoken in some parts of Kaduna State of Nigeria by a population of about fourteen thousand speakers 14,000. (Vision accessed 19th Jan, 2010). Phonology is a branch of linguistics which investigates the ways in which sounds are used... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT This study is a critical discourse analysis of negation in the inaugural speeches of two Nigerian Presidents. The study aims at finding out if negation performs certain statement. The data used for the analysis are from the speeches of the two Presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Musa Yar’Adua. The speeches were adopted from different... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT                             Words form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Preamble This chapter is the general introduction to the work, it present the background of the study, the classification of the Anaan Language. The delimitation of the study and as well as the research methodology will be explored and included here in this chapter. A reconstruction of proto forms in Ibibios, Efik and... Continue Reading

EFFECTS OF NIGERIAN R&B MUSIC ON THE USE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA ABSTRACT             Due to the fact that English language is the official language of Nigeria, and Nigerian is a multilingual country, English language continues to grow popular every day. The Nigerian R&B with its high level of spread lately has... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT This research examined the concept of code switching and code mixing in Doctor-Patient communication in Federal Medical Centre, Katsina. The data used for the analysis were obtained from tape recording, questionnaire and personal observation. The analysis employed the descriptive statistical method with Bach and Harnish (1979) Mutual... Continue Reading

  A CASE STUDY OF IKERE AND IJEBU TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages Title page ---------i Certification---------ii Dedication---------iii Acknowledgements-------iv Table of contents--------vi Abstract---------x CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1.0Introduction-------- 1.1Origin and Language of the Yoruba people---1.1.1 Ikere Variety... Continue Reading

  ABSTRACT   This study examined aspects of the lexical semantics of Urhobo, with the aim of identifying some of lexical relations in the language, as well as discussing the forms of lexical negation. The methodology adopted for this study is based on descriptive linguistics which attempts to describe a language in terms of its current form... Continue Reading

The impact of reportorial techniques on reading audience of Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation Chapter One: Introduction 1.1    Background of the study Information dissemination is a vital tool for awareness creation and development in every human society, whether such a society is traditional or modern in nature. Information is usually... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE 1.0       GENERAL BACKGROUND/INTRODUCTION In this project, I shall be examining one of the levels of linguistics that deals with the arrangement of words to form sentence, that is SYNTAX, and my focus shall be on ‘Verb Phrase’ an aspect, which can be referred to as the apex of syntax, with examples... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE 1.0              INTRODUCTION                This study focuses on the verb phrase of kofyar. Kofyar is a dialect of “sura” that can be found in the northern part of plateau state in a local government called Qua’an pan. The kofyar are a population in the middle belt of... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT This long essay focuses on the pragmatics study of selected political posters imprinted in the pages of selected newspapers. It seeks to identify the influence of pragmatic elements on encoded texts or utterance; it analyse the thought provoking influence of such political posters; the... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL BACKGROUND Linguistics over the years has been defined as the scientific study of language.  However, studying language scientifically entails the study of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of a language so as to get empirical and sufficient facts/data, carry them out, experiment and process them, then... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0     General Background Language is the fabrics that ties every member of the society together, which serves as an instrument used by man, for specific and distinguishable purpose.           Indeed the focus of this research is to shed light, on how noun phrases are formed in Kofyar... Continue Reading

TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Certification ii Dedication iii Acknowledgements iv Table of Contents vi CHAPTER ONE: 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Geographical Location of Bura Language 1 1.2 Historical Background of Bura Language 2 1.3 The Socio-Cultural Profile of Bura People 4 1.3.1 Occupation of Bura People 4 1.3.2 Trade 5 1.3.3 Food 5 1.3.4 Religion... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT Obviously, it has been brought to mind that racism is one of the major issues in Black American literature and has triggered concerns over the years. This study will attempt to make readers realize these themes in Richard Wright’s Black Boy by analyzing the concept of racial segregation of Black in America. We will examine the... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.0    INTRODUCTION According to Garvin and Mathios (1956), language performs a unifying and separate function. This term refer to the feelings of the members of a society or a social group that they are united and identified with others who speak the same language and that... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0General Background This research work focuses on the phonology of Adim language spoken in Akankpa Local Government Area of Cross-river State, Nigeria. Adim lies in the Northern part of the forest belt of Southern Nigeria. Adim shares boundary with Ugep in the North and Idomi in the east, both... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT  The title of this work is .  This language is used by the Ika people of Delta State. It’s central focus  is to find out how numerals are derived in the language and the different  morphological processes it undergoes in the modification of number  names other than the basic ones. The motivation behind this... Continue Reading