Deverbalisation is the technique of sentence decomposition in order to arrive at sentence meaning. Every sentence is made up of words, which in themselves could be lexical or grammatical. These two forms of the word blend according to the rules of grammar of the language to give rise to phrases, clauses and sentences of differing forms and types. In deverbalising a text, lexical items and expressions are studied and comprehended either as vocabulary, belonging to everyday usage or as terms, belonging to specific disciplines for the purpose of talking about themselves. Sentential constructions are viewed syntactically as having denotative or surface meanings of every day usage or as having connotative, literary, deep-structure meaning. Terms and connotative expressions lead the text translator and interpreter into terminological research and supplementary reading, in order to arrive at the adequate meaning of the text. Deverbalisation is so important because translation or interpreting is a re-expression of what is comprehended textually. Comprehension itself has to do with selecting the essentials in a text. The essentials in a text would include the theme and sub-themes, ideas, messages, information, doctrines, phenomena and concepts contained in it. Therefore, comprehension becomes a “given” in translation and interpreting through deverbalisation.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.4314/laligens.v7i2.12
Martina Mnena Tyumbu
Communication is a very important means of exchanging ideas and the ability to communicate effectively is necessary to carry out the thoughts and visions of every individual, group or nation. Consequentially, communicators especially cartoonists have made vigorous efforts to portray the society by familiarizing people with on-going events in the societies through cartoons. This paper explores the sign of cartoon strips and examines how they are used in communicating message(s). Using a semiotic frame work, it presents a method of interpreting and gaining meaning into cartoons. The purpose of this paper is to help people who have great interest in cartoons to better understand cartoons and also answer questions raised in the paper which include; Are cartoons a true representation of current political parties, personalities and situations?, Do cartoon strips like other signs have both denotative and connotative meanings?, Do cartoon have the potentials for more than one interpretation/meaning?, can cartoons be understood better using the semiotic frame work?, The paper also presents the semiotic codes used in cartooning. Finally, the paper advances the analysis of verbal and non-verbal codes like cartoons as important medium of communication.
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The federation of Aghem chiefdoms was established in ca. 1800 with control over land reserved for men who dominated political power in the setup; though women were greater exploiters of the land for crop farming. In the early 20th century, the federation witnessed an incursion of Fulani graziers who occupied vast lands for grazing; a decision that was taken by the area’s leadership with no due consultation of the women who were the major land users. By the middle of the century, continuous incompatible land use strategies resulted to crop damages which provoked direct public intervention of women in land matters. This paper examined the historical bases of direct women intervention under women leadership in land related issues as provoked by the farmer-grazier conflict. It also focused on the efforts made by women in preventing the recurrence of conflicts and the challenges they face. The paper sustained that faced with inconsistency in the prevention and management of the farmer-grazier conflicts by the male dominated political hierarchy, a feminine leadership emerged to prevent and manage the farmer-grazier conflict through pacific and forceful means. It posits that the persistent pain felt by women justified direct women involvement in farmer-grazier conflict prevention and resolution under women leadership. The paper upheld that the inability of women leadership to attain greater results in the farmer-grazier conflict prevention and management is predominantly a result of male domination and women occupation of passive positions in the different land tenure mechanisms in the area. Keywords: conflicts, domination, leadership, farmer-grazier, authority
{"title":"Women as leaders: a historical appraisal of women efforts in conflict prevention and resolution in the Aghem Federation of Chiefdoms, Cameroon","authors":"H. Ami-Nyoh","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v7i2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v7i2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The federation of Aghem chiefdoms was established in ca. 1800 with control over land reserved for men who dominated political power in the setup; though women were greater exploiters of the land for crop farming. In the early 20th century, the federation witnessed an incursion of Fulani graziers who occupied vast lands for grazing; a decision that was taken by the area’s leadership with no due consultation of the women who were the major land users. By the middle of the century, continuous incompatible land use strategies resulted to crop damages which provoked direct public intervention of women in land matters. This paper examined the historical bases of direct women intervention under women leadership in land related issues as provoked by the farmer-grazier conflict. It also focused on the efforts made by women in preventing the recurrence of conflicts and the challenges they face. The paper sustained that faced with inconsistency in the prevention and management of the farmer-grazier conflicts by the male dominated political hierarchy, a feminine leadership emerged to prevent and manage the farmer-grazier conflict through pacific and forceful means. It posits that the persistent pain felt by women justified direct women involvement in farmer-grazier conflict prevention and resolution under women leadership. The paper upheld that the inability of women leadership to attain greater results in the farmer-grazier conflict prevention and management is predominantly a result of male domination and women occupation of passive positions in the different land tenure mechanisms in the area. Keywords: conflicts, domination, leadership, farmer-grazier, authority","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117216719","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}
Writing is an indispensable means of passing information across. It is an undisputed fact that man differs from the lower animals basically because man reasons and needs information to survive. The imaginative literature, in addition to the information about a society it passes across, has many other vital roles it plays such as helping man to understand himself, helping to ease tension among others. However, in Nigeria, this all-important means of communication seems not to be given the attention it so deserves. Nigeria writers, especially the young ones face a lot of challenges hence the need for this research which aims to chronicle the plights of the average Nigeria writers and then proffer the way forward. Keywords: Nigerian writer, literature, society, European, publishing, communication, story
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This essay focused on the institutions of education and language to articulate the relations between the colonial, the patriarchal and the question of national culture focusing on the Shona society in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions . It located the novel’s strength in how the author’s writing develops a political drive that questions colonial and native patriarchal ideologies. This study defined the narrative as a literary resistance and suggests a redefinition of the1960s-1970s Zimbabwean national culture that subdues women. Furthermore, while the narrative can be read as an expression of national consciousness, this essay argued that the author employed a multidimensional approach to the reading and study of the predicament facing Rhodesia, contemporary Zimbabwe, and Africa at large. Keywords: Culture, Language, Identity, Education, Nation(alism)
{"title":"Deconstructing and navigating the institutions of education and language in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions","authors":"Moustapha Ndour","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focused on the institutions of education and language to articulate the relations between the colonial, the patriarchal and the question of national culture focusing on the Shona society in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions . It located the novel’s strength in how the author’s writing develops a political drive that questions colonial and native patriarchal ideologies. This study defined the narrative as a literary resistance and suggests a redefinition of the1960s-1970s Zimbabwean national culture that subdues women. Furthermore, while the narrative can be read as an expression of national consciousness, this essay argued that the author employed a multidimensional approach to the reading and study of the predicament facing Rhodesia, contemporary Zimbabwe, and Africa at large. Keywords: Culture, Language, Identity, Education, Nation(alism)","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127879830","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}
Like humans, computers have their own language. This language is specific to them and is the main medium of communication between computer systems. A computer language consists of all the instructions to make a request to the system for processing a task and it includes various languages that are used to communicate with a computer. This language can only be made available in other languages by their being created in those languages. Term creation or Terminology cannot exist outside the cultural environment of its birth: Language. In other words, terms cannot be created outside language. We were able to collect lexical items of the computer language in English and found the French equivalents. We then created the Igbo terms of the computer language. Our creating terms in the Igbo language makes it possible for the computer language to be assimilated into the Igbo culture and be adapted and used by Igbo speakers. Nevertheless, there are challenges in the of creation terms. The thrust of this paper is to create terms in the computer language domain, explain how the terms were created, make a comparison of some of the terms in the three languages and suggest ways of making the terms created to be available to translators and native speakers of Igbo language. Keywords: computer language, cultural environment, term creation, terminology
{"title":"A trilingual creation of terms of the computer language in English, French and Igbo","authors":"Nwanne Felix-Emeribe, C. Okeogu","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Like humans, computers have their own language. This language is specific to them and is the main medium of communication between computer systems. A computer language consists of all the instructions to make a request to the system for processing a task and it includes various languages that are used to communicate with a computer. This language can only be made available in other languages by their being created in those languages. Term creation or Terminology cannot exist outside the cultural environment of its birth: Language. In other words, terms cannot be created outside language. We were able to collect lexical items of the computer language in English and found the French equivalents. We then created the Igbo terms of the computer language. Our creating terms in the Igbo language makes it possible for the computer language to be assimilated into the Igbo culture and be adapted and used by Igbo speakers. Nevertheless, there are challenges in the of creation terms. The thrust of this paper is to create terms in the computer language domain, explain how the terms were created, make a comparison of some of the terms in the three languages and suggest ways of making the terms created to be available to translators and native speakers of Igbo language. Keywords: computer language, cultural environment, term creation, terminology","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116422746","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 : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.11
Peace Ireju Amannah, Enuolare Nwigoh Mba-Nwigoh
This study is an appraisal of organizational citizenship behaviour in media organizations with a focus on its effect on journalism practice in Nigeria. The paper contends that OCB is essential in fostering journalists’ productivity. Again, the discourse submission is that societies and organizations stand to gain the most when they provide the needed conducive atmosphere for journalism practice to thrive. It therefore argued that, the quality of journalism practice in any clime is that which that society permits.
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Women are often regarded as agents of social change, this implies that the slogan: “women are their own enemies” is a product of women’s outright negligence of their willpower and reluctance to change perennial practices that impede the transformation and improvement of their social status and everyday life. The negative profiling and stereotypes of dehumanizing roles played by women on screen which are validated and re-established through repetition become the raw materials for Nollywood women filmmakers to re-create a new and realistic identity for Nigerian women. Against this background, the cultural practices that devalue women, as projected in Nollywood films will be questioned, and the need for women filmmakers to deploy new modes of promoting the downplayed traditional and cultural practices that validate the role and place of women as contributors to national development and promoters of culture and national security should henceforth be centre-stage of feminist discourses and women’s film. In the quest for a re-positioning of women in society, the Duty theory will serve as the theoretical framework for this discourse. Thus women are encouraged to exhibit their social-civic responsibility as security agents and watchers and builders of our nation. Keywords: Cultural practices, security, women filmmakers, Nollywood, national development
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Pub Date : 2018-04-19DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I1.11
A. Izuagba, A. O. Afurobi, N. Nwigwe, Amaka Okonkwo
Literacy development in education has been an issue of global concern. In Nigeria, learners in primary schools generally struggle to learn due to poor literacy skills which manifests in their inability to comprehend concepts in the school subjects. It is against this background that several research studies have been carried out on ways of improving the literacy skills of pupils in order to enhance their academic performance, social skills and survival skills. In spite of these efforts, not much has been achieved as reflected in current research findings on literacy skills’ performance of pupils in primary schools. This study examined the effects of creating physical learning spaces on the reading comprehension performance of primary four pupils. It is a quasi-experiment using two intact groups: one experimental and one control. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. All the primary four pupils in Alvan Ikoku Staff Primary School, Owerri, totalling 120 made up the population for the study. A 50-item researcher-made (Literacy Learning Centres Test, LLCT) reading comprehension test was used as pre and post-tests, to establish statistical equivalence. The pre-test was given to the pupils and the outcome was used to assign 40 subjects to each of the two groups. This experiment lasted for 6 weeks. The result was analysed using t-test and ANOVA. The results showed that there was a significant difference in the mean scores of the pupils taught using Literacy Learning Centres (LLC) and Normal Classroom Environment (NCE) and no significant difference was noted between male and female students taught using LLC. The recommendations include a suggestion that English Language teachers should use local resources to create learning centres for the teaching of the reading in order to enhance comprehension. Keywords: classroom practices, learning space, comprehension skills, teaching space
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There is no ground for the arguments in support of legalization of same sex marriage other than that it gives weight to the recognition and protection of human rights. Legalization of same sex marriage no doubt depicts further protection of such rights as the Right to Freedom of Thought and Conscience. Even this seems a cogent reason for like the suffragettes of the early 20th Century England, same sex couples actually do have some sort of rights to claim. Yet there is something fundamental about the struggle for universal suffrage that is obviously lacking in the clamour for granting legal status to same sex marriage. The suffragettes envisioned a right that emphasized our common humanity as fellow sufferers who needed concern and respect. On the contrary, same sex couples only had an atomistic view of right, a view of right which sees the individual as a possessor of rights and who is entitled to claim such rights against all odds. This paper stated that the problem with the atomistic conception of right which same sex couples claim is that it overlooks certain yearnings of mankind that are universal. Thus, a right of that kind even contradicts the idea of ‘human right’ for which human rights are declared ‘universal’. The Nigeria same sex marriage (Prohibition) Act , 2013 exemplifies an attempt to avoid a conception or right in line with atomistic view of human nature. Such an act is not unsusceptible to attack by individuals who support same sex marriage as well as to countries that have legalized that act. This paper by scrutinizing the Act in the light of the requirements of justice law and morality, absolves if of the criticisms that may come from the supporter of same sex marriage. According to this paper, the right to same sex marriage when juxtaposed with the right to marriage between the opposite sexes is a wrong right. The right to marriage between people of the opposite sexes as recognized by the Nigeria Act emphasizes our common humanity as fellow beings with the instinct for not only self- preservation but also for the elongation of the human species. Keywords: same sex marriage, justice, law and morality
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