Journal articles: 'Political satire, Nigerian (English)'

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Nwachukwu–Agbada, J. O. J. "Ezenwa–Ohaeto: Poet of the Genre." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001027.

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Ezenwa–Ohaeto was a poet of immense artistic vision. He was a conscious member of the Nigerian and African polity and a perspicacious user of the African oral tradition, particularly the Igbo afflatus/affiliation of it. A poet of ideas and style, Ezenwa–Ohaeto was to adopt principally as his stylistic tool the Igbo traditional genre of satire called In this essay, effort has been made towards identifying his use of the mode in terms of what he took from it and what in turn he gave to African poetry. It is demonstrated that Ezenwa–Ohaeto utilized satire to draw attention to the ills in the land. While he did so, he used the humour in to smoothe his way through. Although he was regularly concerned with the fate of fellow nationals, he did so light-heartedly, combining the use of airy Igbo iconic figures with mediated English and pidgin variety. Ezenwa–Ohaeto thus left behind an original, captivating and enchanting poetic tradition

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Akingbe, Niyi. "Speaking denunciation: satire as confrontation language in contemporary Nigerian poetry." Afrika Focus 27, no. 1 (February 25, 2014): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-02701004.

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Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to read. This epochal approach in the crafting of poetry has significantly evoked an inimitable sense of humour which endears these poems to the readers. In this regard, the selected poems in this paper are crowded with anecdotes, the effusive use of humour, suspense and curiosity. The over-arching argument of the paper is that satire is grounded in the poetics of contemporary Nigerian poetry in order to criticize certain aspects of the social ills plaguing Nigerian society. The paper will further examine how satire articulates social issues in the works of contemporary Nigerian poets, including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu and Ogaga Ifowodo. Viewed in the light of artistic commitment, the paper will demonstrate how satire accentuates the role of these poets as the synthesizers/conduits of social and cultural concerns of Nigerian society for which they claim to speak. As representatively exemplified in the selected poems, the paper will essentially focus on the mediation of satire for the impassioned criticism of social and moral vices, militating against Nigeria’s socio-political development.

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Ogbodo, Jude Nwakpoke, Emmanuel Chike Onwe, Blessing Ewa-Ibe, and Emem Oshionebo. "Mainstreaming and Weaponizing Satire in Nigerian Journalism Practice." Journalism and Media 5, no. 1 (February 16, 2024): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5010015.

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Satire has gained increased scholarly traction across journalism and related fields. The genre increases the entertainment value of journalism and broadens its appeal. Satirical news also serves as a catalyst to pique the curiosity of ordinarily disinterested audiences in news, particularly political news. However, there are some concerns emerging from the weaponization of satire in this contemporary period, which is characterised by the proliferation of fake news and misinformation. From the Nigerian context, there have been minimal empirical spotlights placed on satirical journalism. We employed semi-structured interviews to explore the views of Nigerian print satirical journalists and cartoonists. Our finding broadens scholarship in the evolving area of satirical journalism. It demonstrates how the mainstreaming and the weaponization of satire have changed the texture of satire in Nigerian journalism. Although ethical concerns are admitted, we argue that cartoonists and satirical journalists have a responsibility to adjust to the dynamic media ecology, where satire continuously provides insightful critique and entertaining commentaries.

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Awonusi, V. O. "Nigerian English In Political Telemarketing." English World-Wide 19, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.19.2.03awo.

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Societal multilingualism helps Nigeria to retain English, an exoglossic language, as her lingua franca. English performs both instrumental and integrative functions in Nigeria. The use of English as a language of political campaigns exemplifies one of the important functions given the country's level of economic development and slow-evolving, military-authored democracy. The paper examines the exploitation of English in television advertising in Nigeria. It is done as a follow-up to an earlier work on the use of English in political ads in the print media. The present paper examines English, within a context of media multilingualism, in the marketing (advertisement) of political programmes in the recent Abacha democratic experiment in Nigeria.

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BAMIRO, EDMUND O. "Nigerian Englishes in Nigerian English literature." World Englishes 10, no. 1 (March 1991): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1991.tb00133.x.

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Pandey, Anita, and Anjali Pandey. "NIGERIAN ENGLISH TODAY." World Englishes 12, no. 3 (November 1993): 401–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1993.tb00038.x.

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Mohammed, Wafaa Dahham. "A Socio-Pragmatic Study of Satire in English Political Speeches with Reference to Its Arabic Translations." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 7, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 236–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/lang.7.4.12.

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Satire is a typical mode of expression that is humorously utilized with the intent of attacking or criticizing a certain person, behavior, state, or the whole community. Satire, in political genres, is informatively manifested for materializing negative ends on the part of the satire entity. Satirical expressions are oppositely devised, critically held, and morally targeted; whereof a problematic area would arouse towards the perception of their incongruous targets, the extent of their critical dimensions about their aim of moral reform. Besides, translators would face the dilemma of satirical incongruity and their moral statues would inevitably differ. Thence, five satirical texts with their translations randomly opted from the political site www. The week.com show debates political satire in English with its four renditions in Arabic. Socio- Pragmatic means for unraveling satirical mysteries are objectively culled. It is hypothesized that satire in political language comes with the intent of criticizing and ridiculing the political situation with the aim of getting reform. Bringing forth translational mechanisms for the renditions of covert intents based on cultural and communal grounds are attempted. In conclusion, most of the political satires are hostilely put forward against rather than reforming the political figures and the political situation. Most of the satirical expressions found no accurate renditions in the other language due to their discrepancy and the absence of contextual condition, paralinguistic cues and intonational patterns.

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ATOYE, RAPHAEL O. "Word stress in Nigerian English." World Englishes 10, no. 1 (March 1991): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1991.tb00132.x.

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Omoko, Peter E., Emmanuel A. Mede, and Monday O. Akpojisheri. "The socio-political aesthetics of Nigerian Pidgin in stand-up comedy and popular music." Tropical Journal of Arts and Humanities 3, no. 2 (2021): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/tjah.v3i2.43.

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This paper examines the place of the Nigerian Pidgin in Stand-up comedy and popular music in Nigeria and foregrounds the socio-political tempers inherent in them. It explores the peculiar language features that have not only made stand-up comedy and popular music in Nigeria a national artistic brand but an international phenomenon that has endeared the Nigerian artists to global audiences. The paper adumbrates the fact that one of the most significant features of Nigerian stand-up comedy and popular music is the use of the English-lexifier of the Nigerian pidgin. The Nigerian pidgin is a domesticated version of the English language which has become a recurrent motif, both in the performance of telling jokes by Nigerian stand-up comedians as well as in the lyrics and metaphors of popular musicians. The paper establishes that by appropriating the linguistic elements of the Nigerian pidgin in their works, the artists not only employ syntactic features but adopt various rhetorical strategies to foreground and convey their message to the people.

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Salisu Ogbo, Usman, and MomohTairu Nuhu. "Satire as Tool of Political Cartoons in the Nigerian National Dailies: A Critical Discourse Analysis." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 29 (October 31, 2016): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n29p124.

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This work is an analysis of the use of satire as a form of imagery to depict some political issues in cartoons as featured in the Nigerian national dailies. Survey method of research design was adopted as a means of sampling copies of national dailies from which political cartoons were selected, while Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was adopted for the analysis of data gathered. Findings reveal images of corruption, official responsibility, political failure and brutality/cruelty/suffering as the dominant concerns of the cartoons featured by the papers. While the corrupt postures of those who have links with the past government are dominant in the image of corruption portrayed, both those in and out of government are subjected to some satiric expose in respect of official responsibility, failure in politics and brutality/cruelty/suffering. At the end, it is recommended, among others, that more searchlight should be focused on the corrupt tendency of those still in power, and that more research efforts be devoted to the use of political cartoons to encourage citizen participation in national discourse.

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Onwubiko, Chioma Deborah. "Satirical realities in COVID-19 humour: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Facebook posts." Journal of African Media Studies 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 257–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00077_1.

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Coronavirus popularly known as COVID-19 is a pandemic that stormed the globe and rendered strong nations helpless and even the world powers, powerless. Initially, the Nigerian government was reluctant to put measures in place or lock its borders until a returnee was diagnosed after he had infected some people. This necessitated several measures including total lockdown, social distancing and improved personal hygiene to forestall its spread. Moreover, Nigerians believe that the state of the nation is even worse than this pandemic and, thus, have developed mastery, especially via satire in weathering any kind of storm. It is therefore, not surprising that the Facebook has become a veritable platform where Nigerians evoke humour while exposing human foibles in their linguistic disposition, with the intention to improve the society. This study, therefore, examined the satirical devices in the Facebook posts of Nigerians with the aim of teasing out the ideologies portrayed in relation to the existing social, economic and political attitude of the people towards the pandemic. Consequently, 22 Facebook posts were purposively selected for analysis, drawing input from Horatian’s approach to satire and Fairclough’s (1995) sociocultural approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. The analysis reveals various satirical elements deployed as a subtle and effective alternative to contest power abuse, social injustice and propagate change. The study also reveals the wittiness and absurdity of satire that makes it a ready tool to unbridle people’s feelings; laden with different ideologies with the aim of relaxing tension and catalysing transformation in the society. Moreover, the import of weathering the storm becomes bare as an essential make-up of Nigerians; the tinge of humour intended in the posts relieves perceived tension and reminds the readers to take life easy, thus, making the study quite engaging.

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Adekunle, Idowu James. "Humour of religious satire and linguistic dexterity of Nigerian stand-up comedy." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 1 (April 14, 2022): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.611.

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Stand-up comedy, as a humorous performance, is a quintessential narrative that chronicles sociological realities of human endeavours. Its humour, as a new subgenre of comedy, fused the roles of performers and their audiences in a scintillating way that provokes laughter and, at the same time, gives great excitement. The performers and their audiences are major stakeholders in the performativity of stand-up comedy. Existing scholars have largely examined its realities as a product of entertainment and laughter to the neglect of its deeper sociological realities of religious satire and linguistic dexterity. Therefore, this paper investigates how stand-up humour serves as a tool for critiquing societal foibles of religious gullibility and bewitchment within the Nigerian socio-political space. Besides, the paper examines the linguistic techniques employed by the selected stand-up comedians. This is in a bid to show how stand-up comedians serve as gatekeepers, watchdogs, and social critics of their societies through their humour. Schechner’s Performance, Freudian, and Jungian psychoanalytic theories were used to analyse the embodied behaviours of the stand-up comedians. Three digital discs of live performance recordings were purposively selected. They were: Halleluyan Volume 1 and Ward 2 Comedy Klinic by Godwin Komone Gordons and A Nite of a Thousand Laughs Vol. 13 by Francis Agoda (I Go Dye). The selected live recordings were based on informing religious realities, choice of satiric humour, and performative styles of the performers. Data were subjected to performance and literary analyses.

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ADEGBIJA, EFUROSIBINA. "Lexico-semantic variation in Nigerian English." World Englishes 8, no. 2 (July 1989): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1989.tb00652.x.

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Akinlotan, Mayowa. "A corpus-driven description of when-adverbial in Nigerian and British Englishes." Glottotheory 12, no. 2 (October 4, 2021): 159–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/glot-2021-2003.

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Abstract Syntactic alternation allows us to understand how structural variation, including crucial factors relevant to their meaning and interpretation, operates linguistic varieties. Empirical evidence from such syntactic alternation study can provide insights into how new varieties differ from the established ones. The present study aims at increasing contributions that show the nature of syntactic alternation from new Englishes such as Nigerian English, and how they differ from established varieties such as British English. Taking when adverbial construction in Nigerian English as a reference point (When Trump realised his reelection loss, he changed his political expectations versus Trump changed his political expectations when he realised his reelection loss), the study shows the extent to which previously tested factors influence the ordering of the construction and how they differ from findings reported in British English. Relying on corpus data, together with descriptive distributional analysis, the study shows that, unlike British English in which functional and cognitive factors strongly influence structural patterning, functional factors outweigh cognitive factors in Nigerian English.

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Nicholson, Eirwen. "Soggy prose and verbiage: English graphic political satire as a visual/verbal construct." Word & Image 20, no. 1 (January 2004): 28–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2004.10444003.

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DIOP, Samba. "Nollywood: Indigenous Culture, Interculturality, and the Transplantation of American Popular Culture onto Postcolonial Nigerian Film and Screen." Communication, Society and Media 3, no. 1 (December 12, 2019): p12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/csm.v3n1p12.

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Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, has three big tribes: Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. It was a British colony which was amalgamated in 1914. The country became independent in 1962 and was right away bedeviled by military coups d’états and a bloody civil war (1967-1970). In 1999, the country experienced democratic dispensation. In the 1990s, the Nollywood nascent movie industry—following in the footpath of Hollywood and Bollywood—flourished. The movie industry grew thanks to four factors: Rapid urbanization; the hand-held video camera; the advent of satellite TV; and, the overseas migrations of Nigerians. Local languages are used in these films; however, English is the most prominent, along with Nigerian pidgin broken English. Many themes are treated in these films: tradition and customs, religion, witchcraft and sorcery, satire, urban and rural lives, wealth acquisition, consumerism, etc. I discuss the ways in which American popular culture is adopted in Nigeria and recreated on screen. Nigeria and USA share Federalism, the superlative mode, and gigantism (houses, cars, people, etc.), and many Nigerians attend American universities. In the final analysis, the arguments exposed in this paper highlight the multitude of ways in which Nigerians navigate the treacherous waters of modernity and globalization.

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Ibhawaegbele, Faith O., and J. N. Edokpayi. "Situational Variables in Chimamanda Adichie's and Chinua Achebe's." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001012.

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The use of the English language for literary creation has been the bane of Nigerian literature. Nigeria has a very complex linguistic system; as a result, its citizens communicate either in their indigenous languages or in English, depending on the situation in which they find themselves. The use of English in Nigerian literature in general and prose fiction in particular is influenced by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. In their attempt to offer solutions to the problems of language in literary expression, Nigerian novelists adapt English to varying linguistic and socio-cultural contexts. This has resulted in experimentation and the employment of various creative-stylistic strategies and devices in prose fiction. Our focus in this essay is on the conditioning influences of situational variables on the language and styles of Nigerian novelists, with Chimamanda Adichie and Chinua Achebe as a case study. We shall examine and explicate how situational variables influence and impose constraints on the language and styles of novelists, and how they adapt English, which is in contact with the various indigenous languages, to the varying local Nigerian situations and experiences.

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ADEYANJU, THOMAS K. "TEACHING ENGLISH IN NIGERIAN INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS." World Englishes 4, no. 1 (March 1985): 33–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1985.tb00369.x.

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Lunderberg, Marla. "Protesting against Those Who Have “Risen up against Princes ”: How Political Concerns Alter John Donne’s Usually Ecumenical Voice." Christianity & Literature 70, no. 2 (June 2021): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chy.2021.0012.

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Abstract: John Donne’s angry portrayal of Jesuits in England, different from his usual generous posture toward a wide variety of Christian confessions, is focused in Ignatius His Conclave (1611) on what he perceives to be an abuse of spiritual authority for political ends. The portrait Donne draws in his satire is a caricature of a Jesuit, one who stands apart from spiritual matters, a character clothed almost wholly in political cloth. Many cultural conditions contributed to Donne’s perception, from the English response to the Gunpowder Plot to King James’s attempt to define a difference between loyal and disloyal Roman Catholic English.

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Jayraj, S. Joseph Arul. "Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained as Epics of Political Satire under the Guise of Spiritual Epics: A Critical Inquiry." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 10, no. 1 (January 29, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v10.n1.p1.

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The paper points out the intention of ‘Satire’ and inquires into the biographical, historical, sociological, religious, economic, political and literary contexts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and Paradise Regained (1671). It underscores the poignant example of John Dryden’s verse satire, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), which is modelled on John Milton’s political epics. It also traces the biographical, historical, sociological, religious, economic, political and literary reasons for the outbreak of the English civil war. Thus, it points out the mutual bond that exists between society and literature, and renders a historical reading of the literary works taken for analysis by exploring the possible purposes with which these texts have been written and the ways in which the meanings of these texts have changed over time owing to multiple interpretations.

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Coger, Dalvan M. "Nigerian Theatre in English: A Critical Bibliography (review)." Africa Today 47, no. 2 (2000): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/at.2000.0034.

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Bennett, Kristen Abbott. "Rhetorical Swordfighting and Satire in Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 48, no. 1 (April 11, 2022): 6–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23526963-04801001.

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Abstract Thomas Watson’s critics have suggested that The Hekatompathia, Or Passionate Centurie of Love ambitiously aspired to be a pedagogical text, but if this work is designed to teach, then this essay suggests Watson’s manipulations of genre, style, and intertexts combine to offer a pedagogy for poets, a compilation of rhetorical postures one may employ to simultaneously deliver and disguise socio-political satire in Elizabethan England. This essay first discusses how Hekatompathia additionally signals its satirical aims by participating in the pasquinade tradition, and positioning a “pasquine piller” at the volta of this sequence of one hundred passions. Next, it shows how Watson’s “passions” intertextually recall Pierre de Ronsard’s Discours des Misères de ce Temps, a collection of lyrics satirizing the French factionalism that has led to civil war, as well as Thomas Jeney’s later English translation that turns a mirror to princes toward Queen Elizabeth. Upon recognizing the Ronsardian subtexts of courtly factionalism and civil unrest associated with Watson’s “passions,” one may see how they are compounded as the poet sets them forth in the “pathetical style” of Seneca and Lucan. The civil wars of ancient Rome and subsequent imperial tyranny are frequently held up as a cautionary tales for early modern English and European rulers, but Watson’s simultaneous translation of the French Wars of Religion relocates these civil broils in England, implicating Elizabethan court dissidence and hypocrisy.

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VILCHYNSKAYA, A. "THE GENRE OF A POLITICAL NOVEL AND THE IMAGE OF A POLITICIAN IN IT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF C. P. SNOW’S NOVEL "CORRIDORS OF POWER")." Herald of Polotsk State University. Series A. Humanity sciences, no. 3 (August 17, 2023): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.52928/2070-1608-2023-68-3-34-37.

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The article is devoted to the discussion of genre generalization of the English political novel of the twentieth century, as well as the analysis of the character of a politician as the main genre dominant. The study presents a detailed description of the main character of C. P. Snow’s novel Corridors of Power and emphasizes the role of hyperbolization, image contrast, and satire in depicting the hero.

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Olushola, Ayodeji Akanmode. "Socio-political satire in Femi Osofisans Many Colours Make the Thunder-King." International Journal of English and Literature 7, no. 9 (September 30, 2016): 152–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ijel2016.0906.

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ABADA, Ifeanyichukwu Michael, Nneka Ifeoma OKAFOR, and OMEH Paul Hezekiah Tr. "Nigerian morbid federalism and demand for political restructuring." African Journal of Political Science and International Relations 14, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ajpsir2019.1218.

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BAMIRO, EDMUND O. "The social and functional power of Nigerian English." World Englishes 10, no. 3 (November 1991): 275–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1991.tb00161.x.

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NWOYE, ONUIGBO G. "Obituary announcements as communicative events in Nigerian English." World Englishes 11, no. 1 (March 1992): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1992.tb00044.x.

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GOKE-PARIOLA, BIODUN. "Language transfer and the Nigerian writer of English." World Englishes 6, no. 2 (July 1987): 127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1987.tb00187.x.

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Skalicky, Stephen. "Lexical priming in humorous satirical newspaper headlines." HUMOR 31, no. 4 (September 25, 2018): 583–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0061.

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Abstract Satire is a type of discourse commonly employed to mock or criticize a satirical target, typically resulting in humor. Current understandings of satire place strong emphasis on the role that background and pragmatic knowledge play during satire recognition. However, there may also be specific linguistic cues that signal a satirical intent. Researchers using corpus linguistic methods, specifically Lexical Priming, have demonstrated that other types of creative language use, such as irony, puns, and verbal jokes, purposefully deviate from expected language patterns (e.g. collocations). The purpose of this study is to investigate whether humorous satirical headlines also subvert typical linguistic patterns using the theory of Lexical Priming. In order to do so, a corpus of newspaper headlines taken from the satirical American newspaper The Onion are analyzed and compared to a generalized corpus of American English. Results of this analysis suggest satirical headlines exploit linguistic expectations through the use of low-frequency collocations and semantic preferences, but also contain higher discourse and genre level deviations that cannot be captured in the surface level linguistic features of the headlines.

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Nwosu-Okoli, Ifeoma, and Ngozi Anyachonkeya. "The Language of Propaganda in Governance: The Nigerian Situation." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 19, no. 8 (March 30, 2023): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2023.v19n8p85.

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Language is a unique gift to humanity by the Omniscient God. By means of language, we build or end a relationship, forge alliance, build bridges of unity and cooperation among peoples and groups. By means of language, also, we find a viable instrument to achieve participation and exclusion in political and diplomatic maneuvering. Formal or informal discourse may be achieved through vocal utterance, written medium or even paralinguistic features. Language, in effect, plays inestimable role in all aspects of life. This paper, in a special way, examines the impact of language in governance. Since English is Nigeria’s official language, the essay has, by purposeful random sampling, chosen the meta language of English, of all the myriads of languages spoken in Nigeria, to engage our discourse and to ascertain the impact of language in governance. Again, since charity, they say, begins at home (but should not end there), the essay has chosen Nigeria to query the impact of the English language in (political) governance. The paper upholds the platitude which holds that much is expected from the one to whom much is given. In view of this, the study asserts that political governance in Nigeria is hard work for the fact that Nigeria is a conglomerate of peoples, national groups and tongues yoked together by the Lugardian amalgamation of January 1, 1914. The salient index that wields the fragile nation state together is diversity, amidst mutual suspicion among the diverse ethnic groups. The essay uses literary or library research to probe into the recesses of language and language theories for recommending to the political leaders in governance how they should manage language so that our beloved nation is not set ablaze as a result of language mismanagement.

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Jaleel Fadhil Jameel, Dr Abdul. "A study of Satire of major Comedies by ben Jonson." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 12, no. 02 (2022): 264–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i02.030.

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Due to the changeable economic, political and social circumstances which the Elizabethan age witness, there appeared several writers who tried to employ their writings in order to solve the problems that faced their society which took place as a result these changes. Among these writers, Ben Jonson, a prominent playwright who is considered as the second famous English playwright after Shakespeare during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and James, devotes his writings to directing a severe satire to the moral follies and deviations emerging in his society. He believes that society cannot become an ideal one ,unless man is capable of overcoming these follies, thus he can ascend his society to the golden world of which he was dreaming.

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Ekundayo, Omowumi Olabode Steven. "Bombast Bombardment and Dense Syntax versus Effective Communication and Language Teaching in ESL Settings: Nigerian English Examples." Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal 23, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 229–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/22487085.16161.

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Influenced by certain factors and motives, some educated Nigerian English speakers use high-sounding expressions, as well as dense, windy, and complex syntactic structures. This paper examines this linguistic habit in Nigerian English to show how entrenched it has become; explain the sociolinguistic, historical, and idiosyncratic factors that influence it; show its effect on its audience and readers; and determine its implications for teaching and learning English in English as a second language (ESL) settings. The paper adopted the qualitative research method, and data were extracted from both primary and secondary sources. Primary data were extracted from well-known Nigerian ‘bombast bombardiers’ (users of bombast). Secondary data were gleaned from historical events and published and creative works. The study established that the use of ‘language explosives’ (high-sounding lexical items) is a common linguistic habit in ESL. Some educated Nigerians, for instance, use the habit to show off learning and their mastery of the language, estrange others in communication, create humor, and gain popularity. Although the paper avers that the habit in its unguided form hampers effective communication, it submits that it possesses certain socio-political and pedagogical utilities in ESL settings.

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Bamiro, Edmund O. "The politics of code-switching: English vs. Nigerian languages." World Englishes 25, no. 1 (February 2006): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0083-2919.2006.00445.x.

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Fadhil Jameel, Dr Abdul Jaleel. "A study of Satire of major Comedies by ben Jonson." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 12, no. 02 (2022): 264–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i02.016.

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Due to the changeable economic, political and social circumstances which the Elizabethan age witness, there appeared several writers who tried to employ their writings in order to solve the problems that faced their society which took place as a result these changes. Among these writers, Ben Jonson, a prominent play¬wright who is considered as the second famous English playwright after Shakespeare during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and James, devotes his writings to directing a severe satire to the moral follies and deviations emerging in his society. He believes that society cannot become an ideal one ,unless man is capable of overcoming these follies, thus he can ascend his society to the golden world of which he was dreaming. There is unanimous agreement on the fact that Jonson's fame is mainly ascribed to his matchless abilities in adopting a satire in his writings.

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Ugwuanyi, Kingsley Oluchi. "Nigerian English. David Jowitt. 2019. Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton [Dialects of English], x + 242 pp." World Englishes 38, no. 4 (November 20, 2019): 689–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12388.

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Bolaji, David. "Sexual Abuse and its Implication in Nigerian Universities: A Reflection of David Bolaji’s TaniMola, A Satirical Folk Opera." East African Journal of Education Studies 6, no. 1 (February 7, 2023): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajes.6.1.1077.

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Satire is a potent literary art used to critique and redress illicit acts in societies. It is one of the artistic weapons from time immemorial used by literary writers and art musicians for correcting societal ills. Also, this phenomenon, within the context of academia, has been used to unmask the perpetrators of evils and unlawful acts prevalent at different levels of the Nigerian university system and political system of governance. This study examines sexual abuse and its implication for Nigerian universities while reflecting on the illicit behaviours illustrated in David Bolaji’s Tanimola (2011), a satirical folk opera. The paper exposes male lecturers’ sexual molestation of female students and the stigmatisation of sexual assault victims. In addition, it unravels other illicit acts within the University community in Nigeria and how each identified unlawful act is treated with irony, humour, and contempt within the framework of TaniMola. Adopting the principle of Ethics and Moral Theory presented by Strahovnik (2018) for textual analyses of the libretto, plots, and scenes in Tanimola, the article submits that as the university system passes through different transitions, there is a need for caution on the part of male lecturers concerning sexual assaults being perpetuated on female students. The study pointed out that every institution has roles to play in the crusade against the illicit acts of female sexual abuse in Nigerian universities if gender fairness is guaranteed and the education standard is to be improved.

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Ojukwu, Kelechi, Joseph Ajienka, Adewale Dosunmu, Omowumi Iledare, and Chidi Ibe. "Assessment of Political Risks in Nigerian Oil & Gas Investments." International Journal of Economics and Management Studies 7, no. 2 (February 25, 2020): 81–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/23939125/ijems-v7i2p112.

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OGOANAH, FELIX NWABEZE. "The pragmatic roles of as in in Nigerian English usage." World Englishes 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2011): 200–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.2011.01706.x.

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Chukwumah, Ignatius, and Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife. "Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives." Matatu 49, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04902001.

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Abstract Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho’s The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi’s Heroes (1986), Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard’s theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence.

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Frolova, Natal'ya S. "Devices of comic in the work of the 20th century English-speaking Ugandan poets." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 4 (2019): 140–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-4-140-144.

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Poetry of the Ugandans are analysed in an article in the context of the use of devices of comic in the East African English-language poetry. The critical-realistic and enlightener tendencies that were eagerly apprehended by most East African authors in the 1960s have not allowed them going beyond the direct criticism of damning poetry to this day as well, although point-by-point attempts to use humour and satire when contemplating socio-political issues, do occur throughout the sixty-year existence of East Africa English-language poetry. The dilogy by Okot p’Bitek, Timothy Wangusa and Taban Lo Liyong are clear examples of such attempts made in Uganda literature. At the same time, the three authors use fundamentally different techniques of comic, when portraying modern reality, both purely African and universal human.

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Oladotun Opeoluwa Olagbaju. "Literature-in-English as a Tool for Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence in Multicultural Classrooms in Nigeria." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 7, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v7i1.95.

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Nigeria is a nation of several unique ethnic nationalities with diverse cultures. Cultural diversity has been identified as one of the factors responsible for growing civil unrest, insecurity and hate speeches in different parts of Nigeria. Multiculturalism is a common experience in several Nigerian states and the Nigerian education system. Efforts to inculcate intercultural competence among the members of the numerous ethnic groups and cultural identities in the country have been in form of legislation, convocation of national conferences and certain ‘political concessions’ to different ethnic groups. In spite of these efforts, very little has been achieved. The concern of this study is to discuss how education, through the tool of literature-in-English, can be engaged to teach intercultural communicative competence in multicultural classrooms. Recommendations were made on how to use literature-in-English to facilitate cross-cultural competence in Nigeria.

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Oladotun Opeoluwa Olagbaju. "Literature-in-English as a Tool for Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence in Multicultural Classrooms in Nigeria." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 9, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i1.95.

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Nigeria is a nation of several unique ethnic nationalities with diverse cultures. Cultural diversity has been identified as one of the factors responsible for growing civil unrest, insecurity and hate speeches in different parts of Nigeria. Multiculturalism is a common experience in several Nigerian states and the Nigerian education system. Efforts to inculcate intercultural competence among the members of the numerous ethnic groups and cultural identities in the country have been in form of legislation, convocation of national conferences and certain ‘political concessions’ to different ethnic groups. In spite of these efforts, very little has been achieved. The concern of this study is to discuss how education, through the tool of literature-in-English, can be engaged to teach intercultural communicative competence in multicultural classrooms. Recommendations were made on how to use literature-in-English to facilitate cross-cultural competence in Nigeria.

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Mir, Montserrat, and Patxi Laskurain-Ibarluzea. "Spanish and English Verbal Humour: A Comparative Study of Late-night Talk Show Monologues." Contrastive Pragmatics 3, no. 2 (December 2, 2021): 278–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10035.

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Abstract The goal of this paper is to establish a cross-linguistic comparison between Peninsular Spanish and American English verbal humour as displayed in televised humorous monologues in late-night talk shows. While humour research is abundant across different languages, only a small number of studies investigating cross-cultural differences in verbal humour exist. An analysis of verbal humour in monologues from four current late-night TV talk shows in Spain and the United States revealed similar use of linguistic resources such as analogies, colloquialisms, cultural references to deliver humour but with different degrees of preference. Additionally, English monologues were mostly on political satire, while Spanish humour referenced a wider variety of topics including taboo-like themes and language such as sex, drugs, or religion. Spanish monologues were also more conversational and informal in their delivery.

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Ibrahim, Bashir, Hamisu Hamisu Haruna, Ibrahim Bashir, and Kamariah Yunus. "The Usage of Spatial Prepositions in the Headlines of Major Nigerian Newspapers." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 7 (November 27, 2018): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n7p13.

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English language in Nigeria has the status as an official language that is used in local and international correspondences. One aspect of English grammar that is very hard for second language users including Nigerians to master is prepositions. Not only that English prepositions difficult, they are also the most frequently used items in newspapers that play an important role to signal political and cultural discourses. This study aims to describe the usage and communicative functions of spatial prepositions “in, on and at” in the headlines of four major Nigerian newspapers. Primarily, to achieve that the present study adopted Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. Data were collected through the analyses of 21 headlines from four selected major Nigerian newspapers. The findings revealed that Vanguard, a major Nigerian newspaper, has the highest percentage of the usage of target prepositions (26.86%), seconded by Punch (24.92%), followed by the Sun (24.27%), and lastly the lowest percentage, The Nation (23.95%). Also, it was revealed from the study that newspaper editors preferred to use preposition “at” (indicating specific location) but replaced it with preposition “in” (indicating broader location). Moreover, despite the frequent usage of preposition “in” in replacement of preposition “at”, they also preferred the forward position that expresses uncertainty compared to mid-ward and backward positions. This study concludes that people can be united ideologically especially on issues that foster nationalism through the use of newspaper headlines since newspaper headline is a new form of discourse that may initiate, sustain, and shape the political and other national agenda.

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Nureni, Ibrahim. "Religious bigotry and military despotism in Olukorede S. Yishau’s In the Name of Our Father." Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues 10, no. 2 (November 30, 2020): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjs.v10i2.4539.

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Although religious bigotry and military tyranny have been overtly delineated by the first and second generation novelists, especially the ones who witnessed the military maladministration in Nigeria, the contemporary Nigerian novelist also attempts to contribute and provide with more resources on the rights of the people and the liberty to be free from the imposition of religious and/or political doctrines that are socially constructed upon the people. In the Nigerian context, religious and political/military despotism are considered to go hand in hand since their ideologies formulate part of the hegemonic, determinist superstructures that push the masses to be at the corner of receiving end. Within Nigeria’s copious output of literature written in English, this paper, using Yishau’s debut novel In the Name of Our Father as a case study, attempts to develop a bird’s eye view of the religious and military issues in Nigerian society. Adopting the praxis of Marxist critical thinking, this paper acknowledges how the author, Yishau, allows his intellectual capacity in the form of a novel to direct his writing in relation to the religious bigotry and military despotism that spearheaded Nigerian society, most significantly in the military regime between 1966 and 1999. The outcome of this paper is that Yishau has accorded a pedigree for himself on the shore of Nigerian novels by leveraging critical attention to unfold the thematic precepts of religious bigotry and military despotism in his first literary, textual appearance. Keywords: Religious bigotry, military despotism, Nigerian novel.

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Sewlall, H. "George Orwell's Animal Farm: A metonym for a dictatorship." Literator 23, no. 3 (August 6, 2002): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i3.344.

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George Orwell’s Animal Farm is traditionally read as a satire on dictatorships in general, and the Bolshevik Revolution in particular. This article postulates the notion that the schema of the book has attained the force of metonymy to such an extent that whenever one alludes to the title of the book or some lines from it, one conjures up images associated with a dictatorship. The title of the book has become a part of the conceptual political lexicon of the English language to refer to the corruption of a utopian ideology. As an ideological state, Animal Farm has its vision, which is embedded in its constitution; it has the vote, a national anthem and a flag. It even has its patriots, double-dealers, social engineers and lechers. In this way the title Animal Farm, like Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, or Thomas More’s Utopia, functions metonymically to map a conceptual framework which matches the coordinates of the book. The article concludes with a look at contemporary society to show how Orwell’s satire endorses the words of Lord Acton, namely, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Ugah, Helen Ufuoma. "“We will not atikuloot our future!”." Linguistik Online 123, no. 5 (November 24, 2023): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.123.10553.

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This study argues that stance-taking, a discourse strategy in linguistics, serves the purpose of giving citizens voices to engage politicians on different social media platforms and taking them to task on their political agendas during electioneering campaigns. It aims to evince the extent to which Nigerians utilise Nigerianness – the domestication and acculturation of English language, to express their stances about the various socio-political realities in Nigeria. It deploys online comments generated from 20 posts in Nairaland and Sahara Reporters about the Nigerian 2019 general elections, and applies Martin/White’s (2005) Appraisal Theory to address Nigerians’ functional use of Nigerianness to embody their perceptions of the Nigerian socio-political dynamics. The study evinces that online forums are public spaces that enable Nigerians to follow up on and participate in debates on political events in the country, and the use of Nigerianness gives insight into the expectations of Nigerians from their political leaders.

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OFFIONG, EKWUTOSI ESSIEN. "LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE IN NIGERIAN EDUCATION: HISTORIC IMPLICATION OF GENDER ISSUES." Society Register 3, no. 4 (December 31, 2019): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sr.2019.3.4.03.

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Abstract This paper examines the influence and power of language in education in Nigeria from the precolonial to colonial and post-colonial times. This is with regards to the effect of language on gender issues within the country. Nigeria, a country on the west coast of Africa is multi-ethnic with over 150 (one hundred and fifty) ethnic groups with their different indigenous languages and cultures. As a colony of the British, the Christian missionaries who first introduced western form of education in Nigeria used the British English language as a medium of communication and subsequently with the establishment of colonial administration in the country, English language was made the official language of the country. This paper contains a critical analysis of the use of English Language in the country and its implications on communication in social and economic interactions of individuals within the various communities across the country. It argues that the proliferation of the English language was through education of which the male gender benefitted more than their female counterparts due to the patriarchal dominance in the country. The data for the study was collated from random interviews and other written sources. The research discovered that the knowledge and ability to speak fluently and write the English language had a direct influence on the socio-political and economic status of individuals within the country. The women who benefitted from this were comparatively fewer than the men due to some prevailing conditions of what could be called in the present the subjugation of women the society. Critical discourse analysis is adopted for this study. It argues that English language dependency by Nigerians shows that forms of the colonial experience is still evident and these were all initiated during the past interactions with west through the transatlantic slave trade and colonial rule. This is because discourse as a social construct is created and perpetuated by the persons who have the language power and means of communication. The Nigerian family being of a conservative orientation derives its power directly from the father who is the patriarch of the family as obtained in the traditional set up of communities and the Nigerian society in general. This has grave effect on the opposite gender

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Tickell, Alex. "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the Limits of Colonial Government." Nineteenth-Century Literature 67, no. 4 (March 1, 2013): 457–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2013.67.4.457.

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This essay considers the theme of the contract as a metonym for failed government in Charles Dickens’s and Wilkie Collins’s collaborative Christmas story The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857), written to commemorate the Indian “Mutiny.” Building on critical studies by Myron Magnet, Grace Moore, and Lillian Nayder, and reviewing relevant contract theories of government in political philosophy, my analysis traces the proliferating tropes of the contract in this unusual narrative and suggests that as well as presenting a topical satire on circumlocutory colonial bureaucracy, these figures also encode Dickens’s suspicions about the sustainability of liberal forms of colonial rule. While noting further contexts for the contract-theme in The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, my paper goes on to suggest that, in replacing social-contractual and “constitutional” identities with bonds of chivalric loyalty, the text inadvertently anticipates important changes in the idiom of colonial rule in India in the post-“Mutiny” period.

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Onwubiko, Chioma. "The Pragmatics of Political Claims and Social Responses amidst Covid-19 and EndSARS Saga in Nigeria." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 3, no. 4 (December 5, 2021): 102–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v3i4.739.

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There have been few stand-alone linguistic studies on the Covid-19 virus and the 2020 EndSARS protests in Nigeria. The present study intersects these two critical events with particular focus on the political claims made by the ruling class and the corresponding social responses in line with the contextual affordances shared by the participants. Searle’s speech act theoretic approach is adopted to analyse the pragmatic intentions of the illocutionary acts which political claims perform while Juvenalian satire is used to discuss the satirical elements embedded in the social responses in a bid to ridicule leadership follies and abuses. Three popular Nigerian online Newspapers and few comments from Facebook are selected for this study. Their selection is based on their coverage of these events, coverage of these political claims and popular readership evidenced in the social responses. In all, a total of 6 political claims and 25 social responses relevant to this study are analysed. The study revealed that the pragmatic relevance of these claims is embedded in its political functions of wielding undue influence over the populace, making promises driven by rhetoric and short of initiative and calculated reticence in response to social issues. Consequently, the social responses highlight and criticise leadership vices and the weak efforts of the government in dispensing its leadership interventions. It also fulfils communicative purposes of the contextual space, promote solidarity among the people while prompting change in the political class and the society at large.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Political satire, Nigerian (English)'

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