INTRODUCTIONLa langue est le moyen majeur par lequel on communique. La communication exige la compréhension et la réaction appropriée, ce qui est souvent entravé par les nombreuses langues différentes. Le fait que la langue peut constituer une barrière est bien découvert par tous ceux qui s’engagent dans les activités comme le voyage, les études, la dissémination des données, les affaires internationales, le tourisme et les recherches, entre autres.Cet écart linguistique est un ...
INTRODUCTION Le lexique, « ensemble des mots, ayant une valeur de dénomination, et formant la langue d’une communauté » LAROUSSE Dictionnaire du Français d’Aujourd’hui (2000 : 768). Ensemble des mots d’une langue ou d’un domaine. Le lexique fait allusion au vocabulaire, tous les mots dans un dictionnaire ou un recueil d’une langue. Une langue sans lexique est morte. Car le lexique est un squelette qui donne à une langue des structures nécessaires dans des situations donn�...
INTRODUCTIONNotre sujet de mémoire s’intitule < La scolarisation de la femme africaine comme source de conflit de génération a travers Trois prétendants …un mari de Guillaume Oyono-Mbia >La scolarisation est l’action de développer les facultés morales, physiques et intellectuelles. C’est une façon d’acquérir des connaissances et de pratiquer de bons usages pour améliorer la manière de vie dans la société.Donc, la scolarisation de la femme africaine est devenue une sour...
Molière est sans doute l’un des écrivains dont l’œuvre est la plus connue et la plus lue à travers le monde. Son succès résiste à l’épreuve du temps. La carrière dramatique de Molière a été brève. Mais exceptionnelle féconde. Il a dominé le théâtre comique du XVIIe siècle. Beaucoup plus que les autres écrivains. Il appartient au domaine classique de tout écolier français. Il est aimé et apprécie à tous les niveaux de la société, par les petits comme par les gra...
Honoré de Balzac est un écrivain français de la première moitié du XIXeme siècle. Il est le fils de Bernard-François Balssa et d’Anne-Charlotte Sallombier. Il est né à Tours le 20 mai 1799 et est décédé à Paris le 18 août 1850. Il est considéré comme un des plus grands écrivains français, et comme le maître incontesté du roman réaliste. Balzac est certainement devenu, avec Molière et Hugo, l’écrivain le plus représentatif de la littérature française dans ce qu’...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title page i Certificationii Dedicationiii Acknowledgment iv Table of contentsv CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction to the study1 1.1 Statement of the problem3 1.2 Purpose of the study4 1.3 Scope of the study5 1.4 Justification of the study6 1.5 Methodology 7 CHAPTER TWO Literature review 8 CHAPTER THREE Analysis of Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night 14 CHAPTER FOUR A...
ABSTRACT Religion and morality, considered as two inseparable entities, are central preoccupations in literature. The two are viable tools in exploring the concerns of many writers including John Updike and Salman Rushdie. The research examines religion and morality in two short stories – John Updike’s ‘A&P’ and Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Prophet’s Hair’. The study adopts formalism, a theory that examines ‘form’ as related to the autonomy and aesthetics of an art work. The anal...
ABSTRACT This research endeavour focuses on the social and political ills prevalent in the African societies with the view of correcting them thus, making the contemporary society a better place to live. Using two texts from renowned Nigeria writer, we see the economic, social and political evils which morally degrade our society and the community at last. These evils are being satirized to bring about transformation. Here, the sociological approach is employed. The quota sampling system is ...
ABSTRACT This study is based on Satire in contemporary Nigeria Poetry, using The Eaters of the Living by Okpanachi and A Carnival of Looters by Tayo Olafioye. The poets adopt satire as their style so as to improve the society by criticizing and ridiculing anyone engaged in bad or evil acts. This study explored the works of the poets; Okpanachi and Olafioye, their satirical techniques and the themes there in present. The poets depicted the vices in their societies in a satirical style that ri...
ABSTRACT This study proposes to bring out the social relevance of Niyi Osundare’s The Eye of the Earth. African Oral aesthetics or the Social relevance are the verbal parts of African Oral Literature, Osundare uses this extensively in most of his work and this study aims at looking at that. Systematic sampling will be used for the selection of the poems for analysis, and the concept of this formalism will be the basis at which it will be analyzed. It will give credence to Osundare’s vol...
ABSTRACT Literary scholars believed that literature serves as one of the viable tools for transforming and liberating the society from it ills. This study however attempted to investigate the socio-political motifs in Niyi Osundare’s the Eye of the Earth and Village voices. The researcher applied the Marxist theory in order to have a clearer and better understanding of the two works. Based on the findings, it has been discovered that there is no work of art written in vacuum. They are mea...
ABSTRACT Words form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text messages among the students of the University of Ilorin. Lexical features, Lexical relations, Word-formation processes and Word Sequences were employed to unravel the Lexical and Syntactic elements contained in selected text messages. Among the findings in the work were that nouns are the most prom...
ABSTRACT This study has set out to find the influence of Yoruba Language on the sound system of spoken English Language among the indigenous Ilorin Yoruba undergraduate students. It was to find out the features that distinguish Ilorin Yoruba accent from the Received Pronunciation. The Recorded speech of fifty selected undergraduate students from three universities within Ilorin was used. Students who were native of Ilorin and who have spent at least two academic years in higher institution we...
ABSTRACT This project explores the Amos Tutuola’s Palm – Wine Drinkard in terms of it’s use of mythological icons. In particular, the project seeks to explore the novel as an important artifact and a literary product of social existence. It examines how “authencity” is signified in The Palm – Wine Drinkard as it is written by a native artist. In doing so, the project seek to demonstrate that it is an ambivalence over the value and significance of The Palm – Wine Drinkard. Insta...
ABSTRACT This thesis is concerned with feminist aesthetics carving out the motherist theory in the title The role of women in the Socio–economic development of Nigeria using Buchi Emecheta as an example. It is a common knowledge that most Nigerian culture gives more cognition for the “men”in the society than the women.This study however aims at examining and analysing Emecheta’s text The Joys of Motherhood, written by Buchi Emecheta, as it enumerates in themes , characterisations and ...