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• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 28 No. 3 (Special Edition 1 and 2) (2026)

  

  IN HONOUR OF

  WALE ADEGBITE, PRESIDENT, ENGLISH SCHOLARS’ ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (2012 – 2017)

  AND

  TAJUDEEN YAQUB SURAKAT, PRESIDENT, ENGLISH SCHOLARS’ ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (2021 – 2026)

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Citation of Professor Wale Adegbite

  Citation of Professor T. Y. Surakat

  Oluwatosin Grace Abidoye - An Appraisal Analysis of Nigerian Press Narratives on Indigenous African Food Systems as Sustainable Response to Child Malnutrition in Nigeria

  Daniel Abuh, Grace Obada & Blessing Edidiong Ogedengbe - Lexico-semantic Extensions of Food-based Metaphors in Nigeria’s ‘Renewed Hope’ Discourse

  Abidemi Olufemi Adebayo, Segun Emmanuel Amure - Hypothesizing the Playwright’s Esperance and Cynicism on Nigerian Civil Society Ahmed Yerima’s Hendu

  Thany Babajide Adepoju - A Stylistic Study of Figurative Language and Social Commentary in Niyi Osundare’s “A Song for Ajegunle”

  Jide Ajidahun - Naming the Nation: Literary Onomastics and the Universality of Corruption in Femi Osofisan's Drama

  Charles Esambe Alobwede - Digital Identity Construction: The Case of Cameroon Anglophone Youths

  Ngozi Anyachonkeya - A Comparative Discourse of Afro-European Literature

  Carol Anyagwa & Uchechukwu I. Nnamdi - Intonation Patterns of Voice-Overs in Nigerian Broadcasts

  Success I. Asuzu - A Common Ground Theory Analysis of Doctor–patient Interactions in the Emergency Units of Selected Private Hospitals in Asaba, Nigeria

  Mathias Okey Chukwu, Omotosho Moses Melefa & Favour Chioma Matthew - Layers of Meaning in Political Cartoons on Corruption in Vanguard Newspaper

  Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie & Onyeka J. Uzuegbu - Streetism: A Socio-cultural Challenge for the Male Child in Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday

  Samuel Dapaah, Ebenezer Kyei & Ebenezer Benteh - Point of View and Narrative Voice in 'Mother' by Asangba Reginald Taluah: A Stylistic Study Using Simpson's Model

  EliséeKoma Hassane, Ayodele Adebayo Allagbé & Franck Amoussou - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Dr Adesina's Speech at the Inauguration of Nigeria’s President (2023)

  Olusegun Oladele Jegede & Anthonia Chidiebere Okere - Pragmatic Analysis of Japa in News on the Web (NOW) Corpus Posts

  Oladimeji Olaniyi - Complimentary Distribution of Spirants by Igala Speakers of English

  Samuel Yemi Olugbamigbe & Ibitayo O. Odetade - Women, Sexuality, Performance and Satire in the Nigerian Popular Fuji Music of Abass Akande Obesere

  Mary Temiloluwa Oso, Emmanuel TaiwoBabalola, Basheerat Damilola Shiyanbade & Mercy Mary Akinbosoye - An Analysis of Matrix and Embedded Languages in Code-mixed Expressions in Southwestern Nigerian Advertisement Jingles

  Hauwa Mohammed Sani - A Stylo-Semantic Analysis of Selected Female Songs of Dr. Alhaji Mamman Shata

  Tajudeen Yaqub Surakat & Rashidat Olamidayo Ajakaye - Revitalising Literature Education through Indigenous Languages and Contemporary Youth Linguistic Practices: A Pedagogical Approach to Enhancing Students’ Literary Performance

  Rotimi Taiwo - Linguistic Conceptualisations of Financial Debt in Yoruba and English

  Fatima Amuda & Sola Timothy Babatunde - Nature and Nurture in the Acquisition of the English Possessive and Agreement Inflections in Sequential and Simultaneous Situations at home

  Adegboye Adeyanju - Decision Prompt in Charismatic Sermon Discourse: A Rhetoro-discursive Analysis of Pastor E.A. Adeboye’s Holy Ghost Service Peroratio

  Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure, Zulfaa Yushau Waziri & Bashirat Oyinoyi Hassan - Indigenous Leadership and Bioregionalism as Pathways to Environmental Governance in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir

  Kehinde Oluwadamilare Amao - The Patient as Diagnostician: Voices of Hatred, Manipulation, and Societal Pressure in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater and Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom

  Haruna Ilyasu Auwalu - Ideological Representation and Identity Construction in #EndBadGovernance Digital Activism: A Transitivity Approach

  Naomi Kehinde Ibitoye-Ayeni - Navigating Identities: Psychological Transformation in Igoni Barrett's Blackassa nd Mohamed MbougarSarr'sThe Silence of The Choir

  Onesimus Azunwanna & Bolanle Sogunro - Rhetorical Nuances in Graphological Features: A Stylistic Reading of Femi Osofisan’s and Niyi Osundare’s Poetry

  Mathias Okey Chukwu, Omotosho Moses Melefa & Francisca Ugochi Diara - "Spare Tyre"or Economic Engine? Ideational Metafunction and Political Positioning in Nigerian Vice-Presidential Debates

  Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie & Jephta Iwuchukwu - Representation of Psychoses in Helon Habila’s Measuring Time

  Godday Eronmonsele Ehimen - Grief, Desire and Memorial Transience in Tony Afejuku’s An Orchard of Wishes

  Etunim Catherine Isaac-Agbontai & Ocheje Moses John - Temporal Shifts as Trauma Vehicle in Peter Omoko’s Herding South

  Oda Kayonde - Assessment of the Use of Connectives in Academic Writing by Burundi Undergraduate Students: Teachers’ Perspectives

  Halima Samaila Muhammed & Tajudeen Yakub Surakat - Constructing Political Accountability through Digital Satire: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Selected Dan Bello TikTok Skits

  Auwal Muhammad & Aisha Sadiq - A Psycho-pragmatic Analysis of Baba's Utterances

  Foluke Olawumi Olabode & Auwal Muhammed - Beyond Code-mixing: A Psycholinguistic Reassessment of Child Language Development

  Rebecca Omolola Owaniyi - Domain-based Language Use, Code-Switching, and Communication Strategies Among Visually Impaired University of Ilorin Students

  Altine Yakubu Pane & Onome Ojo - Pragmatic Study of Silence in Marital Discourse in Some Nollywood Films

  Razaq Akolawole Raheem - Morphosyntactic Features of Hybrid Words in Nigerian English

  Bashiru Benjamin Shaibu & Bala John - Metaphors and Ideologies in Media Interviews of Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff on Insurgency

  Rotimi Taiwo & Emmanuel Taiwo Babalola - The Evolution, Application and Institutionalisation of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Southwestern Nigeria

  Muibat Tijani-Sanusi, Mohammed Safiyanu Sabiu & Sule Lawal - The Power of the Pulpit: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Assalat Sermons in Kaduna Metropolis

  Helen Ufuoma Ugah - “I’ll rather die and let my parents bury my corpse than go with the Boko Haram”: Discursive dimensions in the narratives of Boko Haram survivors

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 28 No. 2 (2026)

  

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  Shehu Yahuza Abbas, Ibrahim Muhammed Ogah, & Yakubu Musa Shomo - Echoes of Eldership: Hausa Oral Poetry as Structural Intervention against Cultural Erosion and Moral Decadence amongst Nigerian Youths

  Jide Ajidahun - Embodied Resistance and the Politics of Vulnerability: A New Humanities Reading of Gendered Violence in Kowode by Lara Owoeye

  Oluwasegun Amoniyan & Moses Melefa - Beyond the Midpoint: A Preliminary Analysis of Static and Dynamic Approaches to Nigerian English Vowels

  Oluwaseun Onaolapo Amusa & Oluwadamilola Mercy Olaleye - Multimodal Meaning-making in Celebrity-endorsed Instagram Advertisements: A Study of Selected Beauty Brands

  Felicia Ukachi Eze-Dike & Blessing Nwagwu - Eco-Literature, Risk Perception and Green Investment: A Behavioural Finance Reading of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

  Katherine Banku Odok, Amos Awobi & Sola Timothy Babatunde - Identity Erasure Strategies in Selected Fetish-Cybercrime Related Press Releases by the Nigeria Police Force

  Norah U. Okolie - Semantic Coherence in AI-Generated and Human-authored Short Stories

  Helen E. Ugbogbo & Akwemoh Magdalene O. - Foregrounding and Deviation in Contemporary Nigerian Spoken Word Poetry

  Helen E. Ugbogbo - A Corpus-based Analysis of Stylistic Features in Nigerian Social Media Political Discourse

  Shehu Yahuza Abbas, Hadiza Abbas Shehu & Mayo Mercy Enwongulu - The Place of Health Literacy and Oral Art in the Preservation of Indigenous Dietary Values in Nigeria

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 28 No. 1 (2026)

  

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  Adewale Ezekiel Adejumo & Ayoola Gabriel Oyekola - Poetics of Masking and Literary Cipher as Strategies for Survival in August Wilson’s Fences

  Solomon Fashie Aongo & Bilkisu Adamu - Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts in the Inaugural Address of Hyacinth Alia, Governor, Benue State, Nigeria

  Gideon Olushola Dada - Correlations between Popular Nigerian English Morphosyntactic Expressions and the Ethnicity of Senior Secondary School Students in Jos Metropolis

  Jephta Iwuchukwu & Ifeanyi John Nwokeabia - Psychogenesis of Intra-Gender Conflict in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

  Hauwa Abdulrahman Ndako & Nkechinyere Chukwu - Environmental Education in Aliyu Kamal’s Fire in My Backyard

  Imikan Nseobong Nkopuruk - Graphological Sensitivity and Multimodal Literacy in Language Education: A Stylistic Analysis of Joe Ushie’s Hill Songs

  Kaseem Oladimeji Olaniyi & Ene'ojo Joshua Onuche - A Stylistic Analysis of Forms of Metaphors in Sunnie Ododo's The Broken Pitchers

  Abonyi Jude Onyebuchi & Felicia Oamen - Ideological Dualism in Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s New Year Day Speeches

  Anjola Robbin & Babalola Oluteye Ojomo - Psychoanalytic Reading of Wole Soyinka’s “The Detainee” and Ahmed Fouad Negm’s “The Prison in the Castle”

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 27 No. 4 (2025)

  

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  Kikelomo Adeniyi, Favour Olajide & Mopelola Adebanjo - Impoliteness in Readers’ Comments on the Nigerian 2023 Presidential Election Results in Linda Ikeji’s Blog

  Jide Ajidahun - Between Inheritance and Intimacy: A Nego-Feminist Reading of Ahmed Yerima’s The Wives and Tarryn Fisher’s The Wives

  Felicia Ukachi Eze-Dike, Promise Adaku Obi & Ramatu Chiemele Ihua-Maduenyi - Ritual Vocabulary and Metaphoric Patterns in Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman; A Corpus-based Stylistic Analysis

  Zubairu Malah - Comparative Analysis of Speech Acts and Persuasive Strategies in Buhari-Atiku Tweets during Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election Campaign

  Richard E. Nwugo - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Metaphor in the Conceptualisation of Nigerian Hate Speech in Some Online Platforms

  Babalola Oluteye Ojomo - Applying Corpus Linguistics for the Preservation and Interpretation of Oral Tradition Texts

  Chika Kate Ojukwu & Grace Ezinne Ajunwa - Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Cartoons on the Nigerian 2024 Minimum Wage Discourse

  Joshua Ene’Ojo Onuche & Peter Ochefu Okpeh - Pragmatic Acts in a Political Media Interview on Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election

  Adebola Karamah Shogbuyi - Stance and Engagement in Domestic Violence Victims’ Narratives on Social Media

  Jamiu Abiola Tiamiyu, Jamiu Enitan Ajape & Hakeem Shehu Alohunmata - Pragmatic Acts and High Standard Judgment Practices in Nigerian Divorce Court Rulings

  Angela Eze - The Influence of Literature in Enhancing Reading Comprehension Skills amongst Nigerian Senior Secondary School Students

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 27 No. 3 (2025)

  

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  Jide Ajidahun - Book Review: A Critical Review of Wole Soyinka – A Quest for Renewal by Mary T. David

  Olukemi Adesina, Olusegun Oladele Jegede & Oluwamayowa Samuel Lawal - Nigerian English Honorific Markers in Teacher-student Interaction

  Adewale E. Adejumo, Akintunde O. Akintaro & Ayotunde A. Afolabi - The Concept of Marx’s Entfremdung as Therapy in Cole’s Ember

  Ugochukwu Anadị - The Individual, the Collective and Resistance in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

  Prisca Odinakachi, Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu & Ugochi P. Kwekowe - Speech Acts in Digital Communication: Analysing Performance and Interpretation Online

  Hajara Abubakar Dangaji & Chinyere Mercy Unigwe - A Pragmatic Analysis of the Influence of Situational Context on Teacher-student Interaction in the Nigerian University Classroom

  Yemisi Famakinwa - Exploring ‘-nyms’ Lexical Relations in Wale Okediran’s Tenants of the House

  Eunice Omolara Olarewaju - A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Code-switching and Code-mixing in the Lyrics of Nigerian Afrobeats Songs

  Olushola Ayodeji Akanmode - The Relevance of Indigenous Toponyms in Preserving Culture and Heritage in Igbomina-land

  Temidayo Akinrinlola, Temitope Michael Ajayi & Olusoga Oludotun Ayinde - Minimisation Strategies in Police-suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria

  Abiodun Akintayo & Olukunle Olosu - A Critical Discursive Reading of Satirical Construction of Hunger and Hardship in the lyrics of Eedris Abdulkareem’s ‘Tell Your Papa’

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 27 No. 2 (2025)

  

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  Kikelomo Adeniyi & Favour Olajide - A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Use of Slang Expressions by Nigerians on the Internet

  Bukola Alfred - “I’m a Gen-Z Baddie”: A Morpho-semantic Study of Neologisms in Nigerian Gen-Zs’ X Conversations

  Charisa Dada & Asomwan Sonnie Adagboyin - Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Textual Metafunction in the Holy Eucharist

  Khabyr A. Fasasi - Investigating Meaning and Message Variations in Poetic Interpretations of Osundare’s “Not My Business”

  Kemi Rebecca Kehinde - Construction of Femininity in Hajime Isayama‘s Attack of Titan

  Chidinma Deborah Ogbuonye, Ezinwanyi E. Adam & Maureen Oluchi Ogbuonye - Parent-Child Relationships in Multicultural Texts: A Study of Maame and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

  Blessing Edidiong Ogedengbe & Simon Olaoluwa Adams - Wetlands in the Anthropocene: An Ecolinguistic Study of Framing and Metaphors in National Wetland Policies

  Rotimi Oladipupo & Aderonke Akinola - /eɪˌsɪmptəˈmætɪk/ or /asimptoˈmatik/: Coronavirus-related Terms and the Nigerian English Learners’ Pronunciation dilemma

  Ayo Osisanwo & Victor Oluwayemi - Problematising Migration: News Discourses in Nigerian Newspapers

  Abosede Adebola Otemuyiwa & Mary Abidola Alademomi - A Sociolinguistic Study of Colour, Kinship and Honorific Terms in the Linguistic Repertoire of Yoruba/English Bilinguals

• Journal of the English Scholar's Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 27 No. 1 (2025)

  

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  Clara Unoalegie Bola Agbara & Patricia Nneka Ogbuehi – A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Discursive Exploration of Gender Roles in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel

  Adeola Toyosi Ajala & Aderoju Favour Adeniji – A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Code Switching and Code Mixing in Funke Akindele’s Battle on Buka Street

  Sunday Akingboye – Contemporary African Poetry and Climate Change: An Eco-poetic Reading of Niyi Osundare's Moonsongs

  Faith Amuzie – Discursive Strategies of Cyberbullying in Nigerian Online Space

  Kehinde A. Ayoola & Abiola Adewuya – Ideological Analysis of Nigerian Ethnic Rivalry and Hate Speech on Social Media, and Implications for Sustainable Development

  Gideon Olushola Dada – Towards the Codification of Nigerian English: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Popular Nigerian English among Nigerian Senior Secondary School Students

  Olubunmi Idowu, Kehinde Ikuelogbon & Babasola Osipeju – A Pragmatic Analysis of Deictic Expressions in Mohbad’s Hip Hop Songs

  Edomwonyi Omorogbe – Female Power in Richard Masagbor’s Labyrinths of a Beauty

  Damilola Owoeye & Rotimi Taiwo – “We don’t know where they have taken him to”: An Experiential Metafunctional Analysis of Kidnapping News in Nigerian Newspapers

  Anthony Ugboja – Creativity in Traditional Masquerade Arts in Igala Society, Northern Nigeria

  Tajudeen Yaqub Surakat – A Proposal for the Adoption of Standard Nigerian English as a National Language in Nigeria

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 26 No. 4 (2024)

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  Ibrahim Muhammad Abdullahi – Language, Literature and Social Exclusion in Some Contemporary Northern Nigerian Novels

  Ibrahim Halima Ahmad – Northern Nigerian Women's Life Writing: A Tapestry of Resilience, Tradition and Transformation

  Olusoga Oludotun Ayinde – Rhythmic Tropes in Nigerian Corporate Radio Advertisements and their Implications for Nigerian Learners of English

  Shamsuddeen Bello – A Voice from the Underground: Subversion and Containment in Maishe Maponya’s Gangsters

  Abiodun Jombadi – Linguistic and Discourse Strategies in Nigerian Media Representations of Coup d’Etats in West Africa

  Oluwakemi Abiola Kalejaiye – Rupture of the Common and the Emergence of a Disruptive Force: A Reading of Soji Cole’s Embers

  Agbonkhese K. Oboh & Enitan Sophie Oluwa – Binary Significations of 'Death' in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman

  Favour Olajide, Kikelomo Adeniyi & Lily Chimuanya – Parent-child Relationship Metaphors and Image Schemas in Nigerian Political Discourse

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 26 No. 3 (2024)

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  Ibrahim Bello-Kano – The Metaphysics of Relationality: Language, Literature, and the Problem of “Social Inclusion”

  Emmanuel Taiwo O. Babalola – The Use of Language for Social In/(Ex)clusion: The Intervention of an Applied English Linguist

  Ralia Maijama'a Abdullahi – Poetic Moderns: Silence and the Female Body Aesthetic in the Poems of Halima Lawal, Victoria Sylvia Kankara, Habeebatu X!, and Hauwa Shafii

  Olajumoke Oyinlade Adebayo – Interpersonal Resources in Chimamanda Adichie’s Dear Ijeawale or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: A Feminist Critical Discourse Approach

  Ose Jero Agbo & Hussaini Aminu – An Assessment of Needs Analysis in Use of English for Aviation and Hospitality Industry Students

  Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu – A Phonological Study of the Pronunciation of Disyllable Words by Some Educated Hausa English Speakers

  Ayodele Adebayo Allagbe – Discourse Structures and Ideologies in Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Inaugural Speech

  Ahmad Kofa Babajo & Nana Fatimabint Muhammad – Mythical Archetypes and their Socio-cultural Functions in Nupe Oral Literature

  Titilola Oyeronke Fatoki & Idowu Odebode – Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s Pegunrun

  Bimbola Idowu-Faith & Lauretta Ayoko – “Get your perfect super-attractive hour-glass dream body”: Ideal Body Ideology in Weight-Loss Promotional Emails

  Auwalu Abubakar Labaran – The Impact of Computer Assisted Language Learning on Learners of English as a Second Language: A Study of Some Nigerian College of Education Students

  Dikko Muhammad – The Unseen, Spirituality and Communications between the Living and the Dead: Reflections on Representations of Dreams in Northern Nigerian Literary Practices

  Muhammad Mustapha, Ubaidallah Muhammad Bello & Ahmad Anas Musa - Morpho-Semantic Features of Food Vendor Advertisement in a Nigerian University

  Joy I. Nwiyi – Cosmopolitan Peregrination: The 'Push and Pull' in Helon Habila's Travellers

  John Odo Onu & Inoma Nsima George Essien – A Lexical Pragmatic Analysis of Elugwu Ezike Igbo Marriage Dowry Negotiations

  Mohammed Attai Yakubu – Wedding and Oil Money Metaphors in Olu Obafemi’s Naira Has No Gender and J. P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt, Respectively

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024)

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  Afejuku, Tony E. – The Fiction of African Autobiography

  Akintayo, Abiodun & Yomi Okunowo – A Lexico-semantic Study of Examination Malpractice Expressions Used by Students in Some Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

  Lizzy F. Akomolafe & Babatunde O. Adebua – Presentation of Self-esteem and Motivation in Habib Yakoob’s The Ugly Ones Refuse to Die

  Jeffrey Chisunum & Roselyn Eboh-Nzekwue – Preparation and Qualitative Assessment of English Language Teachers in Delta State

  Jegede, Olusegun Oladele, Omolayo Margaret Yusuf, Adekemi Aliyu & Tolulope Funmilola Aladetan – Impoliteness as a Rhetorical Strategy in Wole Soyinka's Jero's Metamorphosis

  Nwafor, Charles Chibuike & Scholastica Chinyere Amadi – Conceptual Metaphor Blending and the Projections of Selective Ideologies in a Sermon by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

  Oji, Ruth Karachi Benson – Discourse Strategies of Negotiating Scam in COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse

  Oyebode, Oluwabunmi O. – Appraisal Resources in Nairaland Comments on the Narratives of a Nigerian Rape Survivor

  Sule, Nneka Chinyere – Discourse and Manipulation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 Post-Election Tweets

  Osamaye, Seun Bosede & Yusuf Tanimu – Visual Representations as Tools for Communicating Emotions in the Reportage of ‘End SARS’ Protests in Some Nigerian Newspapers

  Aderonke O. Akinola, Rotimi O. Oladipupo & Blessing Gbadebo – A Corpus-based Study of Patterns of Triphthong Realisation in Educated Nigerian English

  Tinuade Onabamiro & Rotimi Oladipupo – A Chip Off the Old Block: Forms and Patterns of Epenthesis in the Speech of “New English Native Speakers” in Nigeria

  Simeon Olufunso Sonde & Sherifat Bukola Jimoh – A Morpho-semantic Analysis of Aspects of Nigerian English in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata

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  Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 26 No. 1 (2024)

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  Pictures - Special Edition in Honour of David Roger Jowitt

  Give Peace a Chance - Tajudeen Y. Surakat

  When a Comet Drops from the Literary Firmament - Jeff Godwin Doki

  David Roger Jowitt: The Quintessential British-Nigerian Dedicated in Nigerias Education - Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi

  Simply David - Temitayo Omole

  Nigerian English and the Question of Codification - Wale Adegbite & Eunice Omolara Olarewaju

  The Nativization of English in Nigeria: A Study of Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus - Noah Apeh Akpa, Benjamin Terzungwe Iorhemen & Abubakar Abdullahi

  Exploring Technological Resources in English as Second Language (ESL) Teaching and Learning in Turbulent and Uncertain Times - Innocent Nasuk Dajang

  Discursive Strategies in Some Party Supporters’ Facebook Pages during Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election Campaigns - Oluwakemi Ayobami Ogundele & Rotimi Taiwo

  Language Preferences of Selected Uneducated Inhabitants of Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria: Implications for National Integration - Uriel Okunrinmeta & Wale Adegbite

  African Literature: A Child of Three Worlds - Yomi Olusegun-Joseph

  A Pragmatic Analysis of Practs in Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Primary Election Acceptance Speeches - Smart Olugbeko & Taiwo Solomon Otuyemi

  “English as a Native Second Language”: The Problem of Taxonomy of Speakers in the Outer Circle - Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi & Folajimi Oyebola

  A Syntactic Analysis of Phrasal Verbs in Amaka Azuike’s Violated - Ifeoma Ann Umeh & Chinelo J. Ezekulie

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 25 No. 4 (2023)

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  An Evaluation of Feminine Identity and Gender Stereotypes in Leïla Slimani's The Perfect Nanny - Peter Akongfeh Agwu, John Ogidi Acha & Derick Achu Ashabua

  The Poetics of Vision in Modern Nigerian Poetry in English - Kayode Peter Ajiboye & Olumide Ogunrotimi

  A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Some Official Correspondence of the Lagos State Government, Nigeria - Emmanuel Taiwo Babalola & Sijuade Toyin Adeniyi

  A Critical Discourse Analysis of Abubakar Ibrahim's Season of Crimson Blossoms - Esther Olayinka Bamigbola

  Contextual Beliefs in the Deployment of Ilé (Home) in Yoruba Proverbial Expressions. - Ganiu Bamgbose

  Humorous Comments on Social Media on the Nigerian Government’s Removal of Petroleum Subsidy - Aondover Theophilus Kaan, Monday Agbonica Bello Eje, & Christopher Eziafa Nwabudike

  Indirect Speech Act Strategies in Nigerian Online Marketing Discourse on Beauty Products - Lily Chimuanya, Toyosi Tosin Oladapo, Samuel T. Owoeye & Chika Tagbo

  Language and National Security: A Semiotic Analysis of Logos of Selected Nigerian Military and Security Agencies - Michael Mofeoluwa Oladipo & Samuel Akindeji Akinmusuyi

  Artistic Commitment in African Prison Poetry: A Study of Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt - Sunday Adekunle Osinloye

  Lexical Borrowing as a Stylistic Device in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trilogy - Joseph Alagbe

  Okigbo’s Labyrinths, Prodigality and the Poetics of Decolonisation - Christopher Anyokwu & Fatima Inuwa.

  Minstrelsy and Sociopolitical Consciousness in Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself - Stephen Oladele Solanke & Razak Aare Kadiri

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 25 No. 3 (2023)

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  Between the Law and Literature: Insecurity as the Consequence of the Breaches of Fundamental Human Rights in Nigerian Literature - Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze

  Language, Communication and Literary Studies for Peace, Security and Development in Nigeria - Ayo Ogunsiji

  Rhetoric Strategies and Ideological Constructs in Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 29th May, 2023 Inaugural Speech  - Emmanuel Chinonso Eze & Mgbosorochukwu Grace Nwasogwa

  Speech and Thought Presentation in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities - Jennifer Onyinye Nwanne & Richard Oliseyenum Maledo

  Changing the Single Story: Narrating Women and Ethno-Religious Conflict in E.E. Sule’s Sterile Sky - Ayobami Olajumoke Onanuga

  Constituted Associated Lexical Signifiers for Discourse Cohesion in Selected Sports Presentations on Radio Stations in Ibadan, Nigeria - Adewole Oluwaseun Alolade

  Sociolinguistic Appraisal of Selected Proverbs in Nwagbo Pat Obi’s When Women Go Naked - Clara Unoalegie Bola Agbara & Ocheje Moses John

  Literature and Film: A Close Reading of Femi Osofisan’s Ma’ami and Tunde Kelani’s Ma’ami - Beatrice Morenike Afolabi

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 25 No. 2 (2023)

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  David Jowitt - Nigerian English and Schneider’s Dynamic Model: Further Considerations

  Isah Abdulmumini & Kabiru Musa - Appraisal of Written English Composition: A Study of Graduating Students in a Nigerian University

  Emmanuel Jolaolu Adegbenro - A Stylo-Syntactic Analysis of Selected Speeches of Nigeria’s Past President Goodluck Jonathan

  Mohammed Ayodeji Ademilokun - Discursive Strategies in Newspaper Opinions on EndSARS Protests in Nigeria

  Taofeek Olanrewaju Alabi & Kayode Peter Ajiboye - Rethinking the Notion of Truth in Christopher Anyokwu’s Naked Truth

  Felix Aishe Amale, Saratu Shuaibu Isa & Larai Azuwo Adamu Atinga - Pragmatic Acts in Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day and Independence Day Broadcasts in 2021

  Stella Antwiwaa - An Adaptation is its Own Original: A Comparative Assessment of Alcestis and Edufa

  Solomon Awuzie & Osas Iyoha - Rethinking African Literature as World Literature

  Chinelo J. Ezekulie & Ifeoma A. Umeh - A Pragma-Stylistic Assessment of Proverbs as Speech Acts in Ifeoma Okoye’s The Fourth World

  Victoria Ogunnike Faleke, Samson Angulu Abaya & Abdullahi Ahamed - The Language of Medical Posters in Nigeria

  Ifeoma Nwosu-Okoli & Ngozi Anyachonkeya - Identity and Cultural Communication in Nigerian Multiethnic Nationalism

  Joseph Peter Yaw-kan, Jonas Naoh Xaxier Gambil, Daniel Akor & Mark Donwaazum - Marriage and Childbearing: Gender Stereotyping in two African Female Writings

• Journal of the English Scholars' Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 25 No. 1 (2023)

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Stephen Oladele Solanke - Book Review: Snapshots-A play by Bode Sowande

  Isah Abdulmumini & Kabiru Musa - A Discursive Appraisal of the Written Compositions of Some Final Year Students in a Nigerian University

  Qasim Adeyemi Aliu & Celestina Predia Kekai – A Critical Pragmatic Analysis of Humour in COVID-19 Related Social Media Posts by Nigerians

  Salihu Nurat Basambo – Implementing Communicative Language Teaching in ESL University Contexts

  Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin – Multimodal Interaction and Audience Engagement in MTN Project Fame West Africa

  Destiny Idegbekwe & Marie Therese Teibowei – A Conceptual Act Analysis of the Emotive Use of COVID -19 Memes on Nigeria-related Social Media Platforms

  Shola Sunday Olanipekun & Rasaq Ayodeji Iliyas – Exploring Children’s Armed Conflict Experiences in Edify Yakusak’s After They Left

  Oluwayomi Rosemary Olaniyan – Men do Cry Too: Gendering Interpersonal Meaning in Nigerian Online Blogs

  Patrick El-kanemi Onah – Linguistic Creativity: A Study of Reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin

  Kingsley Oluchi Ugwuanyi – Nigerian English: In Conversation with Professor Amechi N. Akwanya

  Mohammed Attai Yakubu & Juliet O. Ibrahim – A Linguistic Stylistic Study of Chinua Achebe’s Antihills of the Savannah

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  Journal of the English Scholars’Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022)
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  Journal of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria

  Vol. 24 No. `1 (2022)