July 2011
The position of language in development of colonization
Language as communication and as culture is then products of each other and Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we perceive ourselves and our place in the world. Language is thus inseparable from us as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the...
July 2011
A lexico-syntactic exploration of Ondo and Ikale dialects of the Yoruba Language
The study was a comparative study of Ondo and Ikale dialects of the Yoruba Language with a view to finding the areas of convergence and divergence between the two dialects. The study was based on 50 sentences from each of the dialects, but only 25 of the sentences were presented. They were anaylsed from the perspective of Halliday Systemic Function Grammar (SFG) in order to identify the prominent lexemes and...
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