Language, gender and politics : a festschrift for Yisa Kehinde Yusuf / edited by Akin Adebunmi, Arua E. Arua, Sailal Arimi.
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| Language: | English |
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Lagos, Nigeria :
Published for Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) by Concept Publications,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 574 pages : illustrations, 1 color portrait ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- Language, gender, and politics : a general perspective / Wale Adegbite
- Issues in gender and discourse / Raifu Olanrewaju Farinde
- An idealised cognitive model of naming : converging linguistic and cognitive evidence from Tunisian Arabic / Zouhair Maalej
- Gender and loyalty to first names in Botswana / Arua E. Arua
- Gender politics, ideology, and naming strategies in Tiv oral narratives / James Tar Tsaaior
- Modern progressive gendered discourses in the Cameroonian Parliament / Lem Lilian Atanga
- Gender and proverbs in the Setswana society / Rosaleen O.B. Nhelekisana
- Patriarchy and aspects of the Ikagala language / Rose Letsholo
- Islamic strictures and senwele music : the emergence of a female art / Adebayo Mosobalaje
- Subliminal sexism in current ESL/EFL textbooks / Hasan Ansary & Esmat Babaii
- Gender-neutral pronoun usage among selected second language users of English in Nigeria / M.T. Lamidi
- Language and gender performatives in the Nigerian context : citation and de-citation in Yoruba and "Nollywood" films / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
- The woman as the Other in the novels of Caryl Phillips / Kayode O. Ogunleye
- Countering misrepresentation of women in fiction : a reading of The beggars' strike and The triumph of the water lily / Olutoyin Jegede
- Political metaphors and cultural frames : an example of the US and Russia / Edward Budaev
- The speech acts and rhetoric in the second inaugural addresses of Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo, and America's president, George W. Bush / Akin Adetunji
- Pragma-rhetorical strategies in selected speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo / Shola Timothy Babatunde and Oluwatomi Odepidan
- Discourse analysis has President Obasanjo's national address on the Nigeria Labour Congress on 8th October, 2003 / Musa Idris Okpanachi
- A stylistic analysis of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu's coup speech of 1966 / Moses A. Alo and Igwebuike, E. Ebuka
- Politeness and relational work in print media political interviews in Nigeria / Akin Odebunmi
- Pragmatic force in synchronous computer-mediated communication in Nigeria / 'Wale Oni and Niyi Osunbade
- Language as a tool for conveying messages on HIV/AIDS : the case of Botswana / Joyce T. Mathangwane
- Opening routines in selected address terms in political manifestoes in a Nigerian university / Moji A. Olateju and Taofik O. Adesanmi
- The pragmatics of voices in Femi Osofisan's non-Marxist plays : the case of Farewell to a cannibal rage / Adeolu Adeniji
- The social politics of employing Standard Modern Greek and Greek-Cypriot dialect in education / Andry Sophocleous
- Power perspective in Yoruba fauna proverbs / Arinpe Adejumo
- Aspects of Yoruba history in the proverbs / Durotoye A. Adeleke
- Contested wisdom in Indonesian and Japanese proverbs : a linguistic-cultural mapping / Sailal Arimi
- Syntactic and lexico-semantic structures of proverbs in Achebe's and Adimora-Ezeigbo's trilogies / Victoria A. Alabi
- Politics and proverbs in Olu Owolabi's Òtè Nibò and 'Jibola Abiodun's Adiye Bà Lókùn / Lere Adeyemi
- A universal pragmatic analysis of Nigerian proverbs in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi / Mahfouz A. Adedimeji.