Cycle of Doom: Selected Essays in Discourse and Society

Cycle of Doom: Selected Essays in Discourse and Society
Author: Dubem Okafor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1411644891

These essays are "essays," indeed, in the etymological sense of the word, in that they "try out" my ideas on different topics and different texts. As they are developed, they build up to a climactic crescendo of futility, which may be explained, in part, not by the darkening vision of a wizened and aging man, but by the gathering storms, which have tended to becloud the nation-state of Nigeria. ... The milieu from which my essays emerge has not been conducive to any optimistic or celebratory readings of texts and contexts.

Kiabàrà

Kiabàrà
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: African literature
ISBN:

In the Linguistic Paradise

In the Linguistic Paradise
Author: Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9785644073

In the Linguistic Paradise is the second volume in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series. The motivating force behind the establishment of the Festschrift Series is to honour outstanding scholars who have excelled in the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria. This volume is dedicated to Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo, a celebrated linguist and a pioneer professor of Igbo Linguistics. The book is organised in five sections, as follows: Language, History and Society; Literature, Stylistics and Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics; Formal Linguistics; and Tributes. There are 15 papers in the first section the majority address the perennial problem of language choice in Nigeria. Section two contains 10 papers focusing on literature, stylistics and pragmatics. Section three contains 17 papers a sizeable number of which focus on language teaching and learning, two are on lexicography, while others are on language engineering. Section three contains 16 papers focusing on the core areas of linguistics. In section four a biographical profile of Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo and list of publications is presented, while Nwadike examines the contributions of Emenanjo in Igbo Studies.

Journal

Journal
Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1884
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Skin, Kin and Clan

Skin, Kin and Clan
Author: Patrick McConvell
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1760461644

Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.