Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.12
U. Ikonne
Very many factors have been found to influence second language learning. For instance, affective factors such as attitude, motivation and personality have usually been acknowledged to play important role in second language learning. Other factors include environmental factors which could be geographical and/or cultural. This discourse reviewed the various ways in which cultural constraints and cultural differences impede comprehension among second language (L2) learners. Emphasis was on listening, reading, pragmatics and viewing comprehension. It was recommended that language teacher apply strategies and techniques like infantilization, dramatization, excursion, audio and visual resources to concretize their lessons. Also, to bridge the cultural gap between the second language learner and the culture of the target language, acculturation or immersion programme is recommended. This is to ensure deeper contact between the learner and the culture, native speakers and the target language.Key Words: culture, comprehension and second language learning
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.13
Kalu Wosu
Amadou Hampate Ba est ne en 1901, et pour cela, il s’est surnomme « fils aine du XXe siecle ». De son vivant, il a fait la collecte des traditions orales africaines en voie de disparition. En collaboration avec les ethnologues tels Genevieve Calame-Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen, Marcel Griaule, etc., Amadou Hampâte Bâ laisse a la posterite un corps important du patrimoine africain sous formes de contes, d’essais autobiographiques, et d’un roman. C’est bien ce souci de preservation du patrimoine oral qu’il a prononce une phrase qui est devenue un proverbe : En Afrique lorsqu’un vieillard meurt, c’est toute une bibliotheque qui brule. II est decede en 1991 a l‘age de 90 ans. L’Etrange destin de Wangrin, son seul roman, est devenu, des sa parution en 1973, un des classiques de la litterature negro -africaine d’expression francaise. Ce roman est une peinture saisissante du colonialisme francais en Afrique, surtout a la conjoncture historique de la premiere grande guerre. Il temoigne aussi du choc entre les traditions millenaires des Africains et les valeurs culturelles du Blanc vehiculees par la colonisation. L’Etrange destin de Wangrin suit la trame narrative du theâtre tragique grec en ce sens que le personnage heros est soumis a la volonte d’un destin capricieux. Ses gestes sont predetermines par les forces occultes qui l’entrainent des sa naissance, en passant par des peripeties, jusqu’au geste fatal qui annonce une mort ineluctable Notre visee dans la presente etude porte sur le role que joue la prophetie tant dans la programmation du destin de Wangrin, le personnage eponyme du roman, que dans la structure dynamique du recit. Mots-cles : prophetie, dynamique, structurant, divination, Amadou Hampâte Bâ
{"title":"Prophetie et structure de l’intrigue dans le Roman Africain d’expression Française: Le cas de l’etrange destin de Wangrin d’Amadou Hampate ba","authors":"Kalu Wosu","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.13","url":null,"abstract":"Amadou Hampate Ba est ne en 1901, et pour cela, il s’est surnomme « fils aine du XXe siecle ». De son vivant, il a fait la collecte des traditions orales africaines en voie de disparition. En collaboration avec les ethnologues tels Genevieve Calame-Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen, Marcel Griaule, etc., Amadou Hampâte Bâ laisse a la posterite un corps important du patrimoine africain sous formes de contes, d’essais autobiographiques, et d’un roman. C’est bien ce souci de preservation du patrimoine oral qu’il a prononce une phrase qui est devenue un proverbe : En Afrique lorsqu’un vieillard meurt, c’est toute une bibliotheque qui brule. II est decede en 1991 a l‘age de 90 ans. L’Etrange destin de Wangrin, son seul roman, est devenu, des sa parution en 1973, un des classiques de la litterature negro -africaine d’expression francaise. Ce roman est une peinture saisissante du colonialisme francais en Afrique, surtout a la conjoncture historique de la premiere grande guerre. Il temoigne aussi du choc entre les traditions millenaires des Africains et les valeurs culturelles du Blanc vehiculees par la colonisation. L’Etrange destin de Wangrin suit la trame narrative du theâtre tragique grec en ce sens que le personnage heros est soumis a la volonte d’un destin capricieux. Ses gestes sont predetermines par les forces occultes qui l’entrainent des sa naissance, en passant par des peripeties, jusqu’au geste fatal qui annonce une mort ineluctable Notre visee dans la presente etude porte sur le role que joue la prophetie tant dans la programmation du destin de Wangrin, le personnage eponyme du roman, que dans la structure dynamique du recit. \u0000Mots-cles : prophetie, dynamique, structurant, divination, Amadou Hampâte Bâ","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115859462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The T-shirts and the slogans on them are used to achieve different discourse and communicative themes. The T-shirts help to describe people, events, positions and situations. This article written the confines of the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis and the qualitative design, investigates five different types of T-shirts. The T-shirts and the inscriptions on them as exemplified in the themes of readiness, position and desire, happiness and celebration, and protest are used to describe the wearers, address situations and pass information to the public. The paper therefore concludes that T-shirts and the slogans scripted on them perform different types of illoucutionary actions which cause different forms perlocutionary reactions Key Words: T-shirts, slogans, themes, multimodal, cloth; communication
{"title":"A pragma-syntactic analysis of slogans on t-shirts","authors":"Michael Alozie Nwala","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.8","url":null,"abstract":"The T-shirts and the slogans on them are used to achieve different discourse and communicative themes. The T-shirts help to describe people, events, positions and situations. This article written the confines of the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis and the qualitative design, investigates five different types of T-shirts. The T-shirts and the inscriptions on them as exemplified in the themes of readiness, position and desire, happiness and celebration, and protest are used to describe the wearers, address situations and pass information to the public. The paper therefore concludes that T-shirts and the slogans scripted on them perform different types of illoucutionary actions which cause different forms perlocutionary reactions \u0000Key Words: T-shirts, slogans, themes, multimodal, cloth; communication","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115913459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The similitude that exists in the depiction of the major characters of pioneer Nigerian female writers (who are, incidentally, Igbo) tasks the mind as it reflects on a possible cause of this semblance. This paper located a double pronged characteristic that is shared by all the major characters in the works under study – one of beauty and gentle spirit. These features have a symbolic significance (Ọrara) in an Igbo sub-culture (Mbaise). Ọrara, a snake, is one of the symbols in Mbari representing feminine beauty and meekness in repressed strength – traits that womanism upholds. Text analysis, oral tradition and interviews provide points that aid the study of the relationship between these concepts – female characters, Ọrara and womanism. It is deduced that the identical characterization in the works of Igbo female writers - Nwapa’s Efuru and Idu; Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and The Bride Price; and Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Chimere - has its root in the writers’ re-creation of the real experiences of the ordinary woman in the Igbo society whose natural reactions to her plight gravitates more to the womanist than the feminist angle, producing traits that are similar to those of Ọrara. And while womanism is not new in relation to the study of the works of Igbo female writers, it has not been studied against a significant symbol in the Igbo tradition. Ọrara is, thus, seen as the ideological locus for womanism and may be put under further scrutiny to establish it as the muse of Igbo female writers. Key Words: Womanism, Characters, Beauty, Meekness, Symbol, Ọrara, Igbo.
{"title":"Orara as a symbol of feminine beauty and meekness in select novels of Igbo female writers","authors":"Perp’ st. Remy Asiegbu","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The similitude that exists in the depiction of the major characters of pioneer Nigerian female writers (who are, incidentally, Igbo) tasks the mind as it reflects on a possible cause of this semblance. This paper located a double pronged characteristic that is shared by all the major characters in the works under study – one of beauty and gentle spirit. These features have a symbolic significance (Ọrara) in an Igbo sub-culture (Mbaise). Ọrara, a snake, is one of the symbols in Mbari representing feminine beauty and meekness in repressed strength – traits that womanism upholds. Text analysis, oral tradition and interviews provide points that aid the study of the relationship between these concepts – female characters, Ọrara and womanism. It is deduced that the identical characterization in the works of Igbo female writers - Nwapa’s Efuru and Idu; Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and The Bride Price; and Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Chimere - has its root in the writers’ re-creation of the real experiences of the ordinary woman in the Igbo society whose natural reactions to her plight gravitates more to the womanist than the feminist angle, producing traits that are similar to those of Ọrara. And while womanism is not new in relation to the study of the works of Igbo female writers, it has not been studied against a significant symbol in the Igbo tradition. Ọrara is, thus, seen as the ideological locus for womanism and may be put under further scrutiny to establish it as the muse of Igbo female writers. \u0000Key Words: Womanism, Characters, Beauty, Meekness, Symbol, Ọrara, Igbo.","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130617352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.4314/laligens.v8i2.11
F. Nwafor, Oghenero Eyefia Godson
This paper provides alternative means of bringing theatrical performances to the audience using the new media. The parlance that the theatre cannot be without at least an audience makes it necessary for constant review of marketing stratagems in other to cultivate constant audience for the theatre. The paper reveals how online social networking sites are available for marketing products on the internet for the benefit of the theatre. The research adopted the analytical approach in the investigation of the topic. The basic finding of the paper is that the use of the internet has cut up with the world as evident in the patronage of the production of the play Odumegege and therefore recommended the embrace of the new media as a cheaper means yet effective in the marketing of the theatre. Key Words : New media, theatre marketing, digital marketing, performance, audience, consumer attention
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Africa’s contact with colonialism has brought about effects that are grievous in themselves. These effects have affected the socio-political and cultural life of the African people, to an extent that the true culture and identity of Africans have been thrown to the mongrels, if not gone into a total extinction. On the strength of the above premise, African writers, particularly African post-colonial writers, have been looking for ways to curb the effects of colonialism on the continent of Africa. One of such ways is a process of using post-colonialism as a tool for the investigation and the emancipation of the cultural traits of the African people from complete colonial gridlock, even though colonialism has come and gone. Post-colonialism therefore, gives voice to the once colonised people and also helps for a better appreciation of the cultures and identities of Africa by both the colonised and the coloniser. In discussing Ifeoma Chinwuba’s Merchants of Flesh from a post-colonial standpoint, the paper uses the postcolonial parameters of appropriation, abrogation, hybridity untranslated words and affiliation as the basis for analysis. The paper therefore, concludes that before Africa’s contact with colonialism, it has had its well-established ways of conducting its affairs for the benefit of its people, and that their cultures and identities that make them distinct from other people of the world, be respected and be allowed to flourish ad infinitum. Key words : Post-Colonialism, Cultural Assertion, Language, Language Identity
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Over the years, the Yoruba has successfully employed proverbs to manage conflicts and discords among her populace. Many of these proverbs are conceptually and contextually congruent. The goal of this work is to draw attention to, and improve the knowledge of congruent proverbs using the proverbs of conflict resolution as the subject markers. The elders perceived by the Yoruba to be the custodians of indigenous proverbs were consulted for conflict-resolving proverbs, their interpretation and implications. The interpretations and implications were. subjected to simple statistical analysis. Thirty proverbs that met the inclusion criteria were selected for the study. The analysis showed that two or more proverbs may be semantically congruent. The paper concluded that knowledge of the congruent proverbs could facilitate a recall of proverbial expressions, allows flexibility of use, enables complementary usage, provides a substitution, prevents monotony, allows smooth expression of thoughts, reinforces ideas, improves potency of speech and in effect, achieves the desired goal of peacemaking in African setting. Key Words : Congruent proverbs; Concept; Conflict resolution; Knowledge of
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This paper examined aspect as an element of INFL phrase in Igbo, the verb forms use in expressing aspect, their inflectional patterns, how they are marked and their tonal behaviours. The work adopted a descriptive method in the analysis of the data. It identified different verb forms, participle verb forms and inflectional affixes used in expressing aspect in Igbo language. The inflectional affixes are bound morphemes which are overtly morphologically marked on the verb stems in the syntactic structures. The aspectual markers are hosted by the verb stems with their distinctive tones. A verb form can mark two aspects simultaneously in the syntactic structures. The auxiliaries na and ga are employed in expressing progressive and habitual aspects. Ga is also used to express future and perfective aspects. The presence of the obligatory harmonizing vowel prefix a-/e- is significant in the participle verb forms which are used in expressing aspects in Igbo. The aspectual markers and the auxiliaries which mark aspects in Igbo are dominated in INFL phrase. Tone plays vital role in Igbo aspects. The rule of vowel harmony was also observed. Key Words : Aspect, INFL Phrase, Aux, X-bar, Progressive Aspect
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The Nigerian linguistic society is purely pluralistic. Though conflicting records exist about the number of indigenous languages, it is estimated to be about 500. The need for interaction, and the absence of a national language have made it that every Nigerian is either a bilingual or a multilingual. In every multilingual society, there are particular norms and literal codes which are understood by people of the same shared cultural background in spite of the different codes and there is often a prestige given to one language over others either by its functions or status. In using a prestige language like English in Nigeria, speakers despite their level of competence are faced with the dilemma of linguistic choices. They make choices to fit each purpose; these choices are influenced by certain factors. Faced with the myriad of languages, the Nigerian users of English are confronted with the social, psychological and linguistic dilemma of the speech community. The paper therefore examined the sociolinguistics dilemma of the Nigerian users of English vis a viz uncertainty over choice of code and variety, language attitude, challenges with code mixing/code switching and concern over interference. Key Words: sociolinguistic dilemma, multilingualism, code-mixing/switching, interference, second language user
{"title":"The sociolinguistic dilemma of the English language users in Nigeria: Issues in societal multilingualism","authors":"N. Umera-Okeke","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v8i2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v8i2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The Nigerian linguistic society is purely pluralistic. Though conflicting records exist about the number of indigenous languages, it is estimated to be about 500. The need for interaction, and the absence of a national language have made it that every Nigerian is either a bilingual or a multilingual. In every multilingual society, there are particular norms and literal codes which are understood by people of the same shared cultural background in spite of the different codes and there is often a prestige given to one language over others either by its functions or status. In using a prestige language like English in Nigeria, speakers despite their level of competence are faced with the dilemma of linguistic choices. They make choices to fit each purpose; these choices are influenced by certain factors. Faced with the myriad of languages, the Nigerian users of English are confronted with the social, psychological and linguistic dilemma of the speech community. The paper therefore examined the sociolinguistics dilemma of the Nigerian users of English vis a viz uncertainty over choice of code and variety, language attitude, challenges with code mixing/code switching and concern over interference. Key Words: sociolinguistic dilemma, multilingualism, code-mixing/switching, interference, second language user","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"401 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124175838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polygyny is still prevalent in South Africa though the country is ravished by the AIDS pandemic. This article aims to highlight the effects of affluent polygyny on South African women. The findings were very much indicative of the dangers of entering into these arrangements because of socio-economic issues and the high rate of unemployment. This dependency causes women to agree to marry already married men for financial stability. Postcolonial feminist scholarship advanced by black women who were subjected recolonization as their ideas and concepts is the theoretical underpinning for this paper. This theory highlights the complexity of marginalisation of women in affluent polygyny in a previously colonised country. The article asserts that postcolonial feminist theory provides a further understanding of how women suffer at the hands of polygynists. The theory of Gender and Power is also used to understand the gendered relations of affluent polygyny in contemporary times because in African traditional societies, polygyny is perceived as a sociological issue. Key words : polygyny, postcolonial feminist theory, affluence, HIV/AIDS, gender and power
{"title":"When culture equals femicide: ‘affluent polygyny’ a South African dilemma","authors":"E. B. Zungu","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v8i2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v8i2.7","url":null,"abstract":"Polygyny is still prevalent in South Africa though the country is ravished by the AIDS pandemic. This article aims to highlight the effects of affluent polygyny on South African women. The findings were very much indicative of the dangers of entering into these arrangements because of socio-economic issues and the high rate of unemployment. This dependency causes women to agree to marry already married men for financial stability. Postcolonial feminist scholarship advanced by black women who were subjected recolonization as their ideas and concepts is the theoretical underpinning for this paper. This theory highlights the complexity of marginalisation of women in affluent polygyny in a previously colonised country. The article asserts that postcolonial feminist theory provides a further understanding of how women suffer at the hands of polygynists. The theory of Gender and Power is also used to understand the gendered relations of affluent polygyny in contemporary times because in African traditional societies, polygyny is perceived as a sociological issue. Key words : polygyny, postcolonial feminist theory, affluence, HIV/AIDS, gender and power","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127446993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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