ABSTRACT No matter how plural a society may be, the film industry should be the engineering force and vehicle for conveying political messages to the people in the democratization process in which man is the pivot, it is with this background that the objectives of this study re-channeled towards Nollywood for their participation in politics. The work examined factors such as medium, interpersonal communication, exposure objectivity and sycophancy to clear. Curtly determine the effective impac...
ABSTRACT This work was done to final out the assessment of the mass media's role in the campaign against drug abuse, because drug abuse has become a serious problem we are facing both in Nigeria and in other parts of the world. The objectives of this research is to find out if drug abuse has increased crime rate in Nigeria, to find out if the mass media is performing their functions effectively, its assessment in the campaign against drug abuse in Nigeria and what impression peopl...
ABSTRACT Rural development of any kind in any place can only be meaningfully achieved through a well – planned and executed complex interaction of many economic and non economic variables. In the course of this study, the press here has faced with the obligation of bettering the lives of the rural communities through the packaging of information on how to do something which their in exposure hinders them from acquiring basic knowledge. The major aim of this study is to highlight and e...
ABSTRACT In this era of social and economic instability in which the public must be given a convincing why they should part with their hard earned money, the role of the public relations practitioners cannot be over emphasized. The study also analyse the public relations strategies and policies management of the organization in question. The study set out further to know how the various Nigeria airways, Enugu consumers perceive the organization. It proceed to examines the importance of the s...
Participatory communication has now become the generally accepted view of how communication should be used to pursue development interventions. However, despite the increasing number of development projects claiming to embrace participation and participatory communication, only few meet the standards of genuine participation. Through a qualitative research methodology, this study was undertaken to determine the extent to which the nature, flow and channels of communication were participatory ...
Abstract Syntax is a major unit of language; and that of a text inclusive. Trope, on the other hand, is one of the distinguishing features of literary language, especially that of prose. To study syntax and trope of a prose work, therefore, is to examine its language. This work investigates the style of the language of Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus with particular reference to syntax and trope routing its findings through the Systemic Functional Theory mainly. Adichie’s perception and experi...
AbstractThe purpose of this research study is to examine the influence of Social Media and Academic Performance Of students in University of Lagos. Five Research questions and five Research hypotheses guided the study. To achieve this, the descriptive survey research design was adopted. The study focused on University of Lagos hence, population consists of all the 24,661 full-time undergraduate students. The simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 378 students. A four ...
ABSTRACT This research effort sets out to examine the stylistic features employed by Niyi Osundare in the poems, “the Language of Pain”, “Death Came Calling”, “with the Nib of a Borrowed Pen”, “The weeping Book”, and “The Lake came to my House”, culled from the anthology titled “A City Without People”. It also aims at analyzing the identified stylistic features, with a view to relating them with how they contribute to the messages of the poems and their readability. Th...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration .................................................................................................... Ii Dedication .................................................................................................... Iii Acknowledgements ................................................................................... Iv Abstract ...................................................................................................... Xii Chapter...
This study determined the linguistic devices manifested in the corpus of crime news broadcasts and investigated the strategies employed by the Filipino Journalists in constructing the crime news broadcasts. This study is descriptive - qualitative in nature employing Linguistic Analysis framework, which brought the analysis to two (2) levels: analysis of the devices and on the strategies. The study gathered and transcripted twenty-five (25) mainstream crime news broadcasts from the different t...
Periodicalsare the bedrock of research activities. These periodicals can be acquiredthrough subscriptions; these could be through overseas, agents, gifts purchase,standing orders, donations membership of an association. Periodicals serve as atool of dissemination of knowledge in the library and in the society.Periodicals could be acquired through the use of selection tools like BritishNational Bibliography (BNB), African Book-in-Print (ABP) but rarely byexchange, catalogue, book agent/vend...
ABSTRACT This long essayproposes an analytic and a cross-analytic review of the language choice ofenvironment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The novel tellsthe story of a character, simply called “the Man” who is surrounded bycorruption in a corrupt West African state, and how he (the Man) struggles tokeep out of the overpowering mess. It also presents the story of a man’sloneliness and anguish at the physical and social filth around him, and aboutwhich...
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study Withinlibrary Technology, serial publications have been considered traditionally as a separately distinguishable library resource because there are differences in their contents, format, bibliographical relationships, and the methods of acquisition and service. Definitions of the term “serial” vary from authority to authority and from library to library, as A. Osborn makes clear in his study.’ For this article the term is used to incl...
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