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1. THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ABAKALIKI URBAN

2. FEMALE WRITERS IN MODERN AFRICAN LITERATURE: A STUDY OF SEFI ATTA’S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME AND AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO’S ROSES AND BULLETS

3. THE TRAGIC AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN ELECHI AMADI’S THE GREAT PONDS AND THE CONCUBINE

4. THE ROLE OF LITERATURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS

5. THE POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

6. THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST AS NATION-BUILDER IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH

7. STYLE AND LANGUAGE IN ORAL LITERATURE: A STUDY OF TALES FROM IGBERE

8. CHARACTER FORMATION IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW

9. POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS

10. THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE ADVERTISEMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA

11. THE USE OF ICT IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ORAL ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE

12. NIGERIANS AND POLITENESS EXPRESSION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: A STUDY OF THE NON-TEACHING STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA

13. MERGER OF THEME AND STYLE IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND ZAYNAB ALKALI’S THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN

14. LINGUISTIC STUDY OF SELECTED NIGERIAN CHILDREN’S POETRY IN OSSIE ENEKWE’S GENTLE BIRDS COME TO ME AND IKEOGUOKE’S SONG OF SUCCESS AND OTHER POEMS FOR CHILDREN

15. LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND REVITALIZATION: OROKAM DIALECTAL SITUATION

16. INFLUENCE OF NATURE AND NURTURE IN BESSIE HEAD’S A WOMAN ALONE AND THE CARDINALS

17. HOMOSEXUALITY IN JUDE DIBIA’S WALKING WITH SHADOWS AND WOLE SOYINKA’S THE INTERPRETERS

18. HISTORY IN THE WORKS OF HELON HABILA: WAITING FOR AN ANGEL, MEASURING TIME AND OIL ON WATER

19. ENEMIES OF THEIR OWN: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN NAWAL EL SAADAWI’S WOMAN AT POINT ZERO AND REBEKA NJAU’S RIPPLES IN THE POOL

20. ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TANURE OJAIDE’S THE ACTIVIST AND KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW

21. CHINUA ACHEBE’S SHORT STORIES AS APERISCOPE TO IGBO WORLDVIEW

22. CHARACTER FORMATION IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW

23. CAUSES OF THE PROBLEMS OF ENGLISH INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES ON THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF IGBO SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS

24. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF WOLE SOYINKA’S THE BEATIFICATION OF AREA BOY AND A PLAY OF GIANTS

25. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF URHOBO PROVERBS

26. A LINGUISTIC STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF MARKET PLACE LANGUAGE IN ENUGU METROPLIS

27. A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF NOUN FORMATION IN ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

28. A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF DERIVATION OF NOUNS FROM VERBS IN ENGLISH AND IBIBIO LANGUAGES

29. THE IDEOLOGICAL PARADIGMS OF IBRAHIM TAHIR’S THE LAST IMAM AND ABUBAKAR GIMBA’S SACRED APPLES

30. THE AESTHETICS OF ADO-EKITI PRAISE POETRY

31. SHADES OF MEANING ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL NAMES AND NAMING IN IGALA

32. RACE, IDENTITY AND PERSPECTIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF TONI MORRISON AND RITA DOVE

33. NATURE IN NIGERIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: AN APPRAISAL OF SELECTED VERSES

34. LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY: A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S A DANCE OF THE FORESTS AND THE BEATIFICATION OF AN AREA BOY

35. HISTORICISM AS A LITERARY DISCOURSE:A STUDY OF ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S THE LAST DUTY, ELECHI AMADI’S SUNSET IN BIAFRA AND BIYI BANDELE’S BURMA BOY

36. GENDER VIOLENCE IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

37. DIALOGUE AS DISCOURSE: AN ANALYSIS OF NTA KADUNA EDITORIAL BOARD’S USE OF LANGUAGE

38. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE AND THE DIALOGIC IMAGINATION: A BAKHTINIAN RE-EXAMINATION OF HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, PURPLE HIBISCUS AND THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK

39. AN EXAMINATION OF SENTENCES AND THEIR APPROPRIATENESS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN CHILDREN’S NOVELS

40. AFRICAN IMAGE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY OF LANGSTON HUGHES’ THE PANTHER AND THE LASH: POEMS OF OUR TIME AND YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA’S PLEASURE DOME: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS

41. AESTHETICS OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF SELECTED BOOKS

42. AESTHETICS AND UTILITARIAN VALUES OF SELECTED AFRICAN AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUALS AND GOSPEL SONGS

43. ACHIEVING UNITY AND COHERENCE THROUGH CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NOVELS OF ACHEBE, IYAYI AND HABILA

44. A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH MOOD SYSTEM IN SELECTED DRAMATIC TEXTS

45. A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF AUXILIARY VERBS IN OFFICE DOCUMENTS: A CASE STUDY OF IBRAHIM BADAMASI BABANGIDA UNIVERSITY, LAPAI

46. A STYLISTIC STUDY OF PARALLELISM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENTS BARRACK OBAMA AND GOODLUCK JONATHAN

47. A STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL EMBEDDING IN THE GUARDIAN AND DAILY TRUST EDITORIALS

48. A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF TONI MORRISON‟S A MERCY AND GLORIA NAYLOR‟S THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE AND MAMA DAY

49. A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INFORMATIVENESS AND CONCISENESS IN THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT OF THE NIGERIAN PRINT MEDIA

50. A PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF CHILD LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY OF THE TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH

51. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CONTEXT AND ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON MEANING AND INTERPRETATION OF IGALA PROVERBS

52. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH IN THE SUBTITLES OF SELECTED NIGERIAN HOME VIDEOS

53. A PORTRAIT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN SOME SELECTED WORKS OF ALICE WALKER AND TONI MORRISON

54. A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LOANWORDS AMONG YORUBA SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN KADUNA METROPOLIS

55. A LINGUISTIC-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE OF HUMUOR IN OPA WILLIAMS’ “NITE OF A THOUSAND LAUGHS”

56. A LINGUISTIC STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

57. A LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN-NESS’ OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN IN SELECTED LITERARY WORKS

58. A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND THE ROAD

59. A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN SELECTED ACCEPTANCE AND INAUGURAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN AND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

60. A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF“TURN-TAKING” IN THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA: A CASE STUDY OF AFRICA INDEPENDENT TELEVISION’S MÌNÌJỌ̀JỌ̀

61. A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF TIV AND ENGLISH PLURALISATION PROCESSES

62. A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MOROA FOLKTALES

63. VARIATION AS A TOOL OF AESTHETICS IN OKPOSI, OHAFIA, AND AWKA ORAL NARRATIVES

64. THE USE OF CREATIVITY AND DEVIATION IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY

65. THE REPRESENTATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN SELECTED AFRICAN FICTION

66. THE MORPHO-SEMANTIC IMPLICATIONS OF ENGLISH LOAN-WORDS FROM AFRICA

67. SEMANTIC STUDY OF SOME LEXICAL ITEMS IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH

68. POETIC METAPHOR IN CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO’S LABYRINTHS

69. NARRATING RACISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH

70. LITERATURE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS AMONG USERS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IHIALA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ANAMBRA STATE

71. LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF LEGAL LANGUAGE

72. A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

73. A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF IGBO AND ENGLISH AFFIXATION

74. A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND TIV SENTENCE STRUCTURES

75. MALE ABSENCE AND SINGLE PARENTHOOD IN BLACK WRITING: A STUDY OF RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY, TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED, AND LAURETTA NGCOBO’S CROSS OF GOLD

76. A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CLAUSAL COORDINATES AS USED IN THE AMENDED 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

77. THE INFLUENCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

78. THE DISCOURSE OF IMPOSED IDENTITY IN ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME AND RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

79. STATUS STRUGGLE: EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES IN NIGERIA

80. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

81. LANGUAGE AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY:A STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH

82. GRAMMATICAL ERROR ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NEWS SCRIPTS OF THE BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF ABIA STATE RADIO, UMUAHIA

83. EFFECTS OF PIDGIN ENGLISH IN STANDARD ENGLISH USAGE AMONG STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EHA-AMUFU, ISI -UZO L.G.A. OF ENUGU STATES

84. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHEMES OF THE ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

85. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES

86. AN ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TANURE OJAIDE’S THE ACTIVIST AND KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW

87. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

88. TERROR AND TRAGIC OPTIMISM AS SUSTAINING CONSTRUCTS IN CAMUS’S THE PLAGUE AND SOYINKA’S SEASON OF ANOMY

89. SELF AND IDENTITY IN AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURES

90. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES OF NELSON MANDELA

91. SOCIOLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE PROVERBS IN OLA ROTIMI’S THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME, KURUNMI AND OVONRAMWEN NOGBAISI

92. LANGUAGE AND POWER RELATIONS IN SELECTED POLITICAL CRISIS SPEECHES IN NIGERIA, 1984 – 2013

93. FICTIONAL REPRESENTATION OF THE OPPRESSED IN THE NOVELS OF NGUGI WA THIONG’O, TANURE OJAIDE AND HELON HABILA

94. INFLUENCE OF ACHEBE’S STYLE IN THINGS FALL APART ON AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO’S HOUSE OF SYMBOLS

95. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SPEECHES OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES IN SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA 2007-2014

96. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RACE AND GENDER IN SELECTED NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON AND ALICE WALKER

97. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF PROVERBS IN SELECTED WORKS OF OLA ROTIMI

98. TERROR AND TRAGIC OPTIMISM AS SUSTAINING CONSTRUCTS IN CAMUS’S THE PLAGUE AND SOYINKA’S SEASON OF ANOMY

99. DESIRE AND THE UNKNOWN IN BREITBACH’S REPORT ON BRUNO, ACHEBE’S A MAN OF THE PEOPLE AND MORRISON’S BELOVED

100. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SPEECHES OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES IN SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA 2007-2014

101. OGUN APOTHEOSIS AND THE CONTEXTS OF DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN OLOJO FESTIVAL O FILE-IFE

102. MYTH IN BEN OKRI’S THE FAMISHED ROAD

103. AESTHETICS AND LITERARY ELEMENTS IN WEST AFRICAN ORATURE: THE WORKS OF EFUA SUTHERLAND IN FOCUS

104. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SOCIO-POLITICAL COLUMNS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS

105. CONFLICTS IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP SELECTED AFRICAN TEXT

106. A SOCIO-PRAGRAMATIC STUDY OF AMA ATTA AIDOO’S CHANGES AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

107. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NIGERIAN APPELLATE COURT JUDGMENTS

108. PORTRAYAL OF GENDERED EXPERIENCES IN SELECTED AFRICAN MIGRANT NARRATIVES

109. SEXISM AND POWER DOMINANCE IN FEMI OSOFISAN’S ALTINE’S WRATH AND WOLE SOYINKA’S A PLAY OF GIANTS: A SOCIO-DISCOURSE ANALYTICAL STUDY

110. THE PORTRAYAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN SELECTED AFRICAN PROSE

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