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Publikováno v:
Languages, Vol 9, Iss 7, p 227 (2024)
Working chiefly within the tenets of Cultural Linguistics (CL), this study examines the cultural and cognitive motivations that underlie selected death-oriented personal names among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria. Based on the cultural linguistic
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https://doaj.org/article/75697839c31b44789aad36d47e68a74e
Autor:
Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
Topics in Linguistics, Vol 21, Iss 2, Pp 28-40 (2020)
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which forms the theoretical anchor of this study, expresses the role of language and cognition in construing and communicating human experiences. CMT posits that metaphor in discourse is shaped by the ideological ori
Publikováno v:
Critical Discourse Studies. 19:55-72
This study examines specifically, the mission statement and ideology as discursive practices of the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) Ponzi scheme. As the demand for transparency in governance, public...
Autor:
Orowo Precious Atoma, Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gender and Power. 12:97-115
Previous studies on ethnic, religious and political expressions and activities in Nigeria have examined issues such as religious and political intolerance between and among groups. In particular, the activities of pro-Biafra groups such as that of th
Autor:
Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gender and Power. 11:105-121
Previous studies on prostitution and sex slavery in African literature have focused chiefly on the thematic concerns of the novels such as the moral dimensions of the act but none of the studies has explored the role of language as a form of represen
Autor:
Khabyr Fasasi, Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
Language Matters. 49:23-38
This study investigates the specific patterns and functions of impolite and face-threatening acts (imp/FTAs) among undergraduates of state universities in the southwestern part of Nigeria in order ...
Autor:
Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
The International Journal of Literary Humanities. 16:1-12
Autor:
Isaac Tamunobelema, Ikenna Kamalu
Publikováno v:
Imbizo. 7:21-35
One of the greatest threats to national development and the rights of individuals and groups in Nigeria and some parts of Africa is the growing increase in religious fundamentalism by major religions in the continent. The worsening economic fortunes
Autor:
Ikenna Kamalu, Omeh Obasi Ngwoke
Publikováno v:
African Identities. 15:247-259
Based on insights from the tenets of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) this study examines the metaphorical conceptualization of God, the gods and the supernatural among the Igbo speakers of Southeastern Nigeria. This study accepts the notion that met
Autor:
Ikenna Kamalu, Ene Eric Igbifa
Publikováno v:
Imbizo. 8
The scholarship on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart dwells disproportionately on the novel's preoccupation with the twin issues of the place of women in precolonial Igbo society and the disruptive arrival of the first Europeans in an African communi