June Issue

VOLUME 3, ISSUE I, JUNE, 2026

Pragmatic Dimensions Of Language Use In Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist And Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

Ogenyi Ruth Ajibola and Dogun Ojochogu


Psychosocial Development and Identity Crisis in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of the Minorities

Mohammed El-Nasir Al-Amin, Ph.D and Flora Ayomide Afolabi


Pragmatics as Resistance: Linguistic Strategies of Ecological and Gendered Protest in Ojaide’s the Activist and Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

Ogenyi Ruth Ajibola


Incantation, Prayer, and Sacred Speech: A Literary Exploration of Ritual Language In Easter Liturgies and African Sacrificial Ceremonies

Njan Iliya Dayit and Henry Eberechukwu Macaustin


An Ideational Analysis of the Representation of Economic Hardship in Selected Dailies

Hadiza Kabir and Kaan, Aondover Theophilus (Ph.D)


A Psychoanalytic Feminist Analysis of Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison

Patience Peter Diah


A Stylistic Use of Adjectives in Aliyu Kamal’s Someone Somewhere

Ahmad Salisu


Afrocentric Theory As a Paradigm For Analysing African Oral Literature

Terlumun Kerekaa, PhD and Portia Depuun Gavar


Sociolinguistic Analysis of Speech Acts and Social Power in Ola Rotimi’s the Gods are not to Blame

Tolulope Grace Ojo and Sunday Amuta


Autobiography as Vehicle for Political Discourse: The Case of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s A Journey in Service: An Autobiography

Prof. Umar Saje and Malam Sanni Isah


Pragmatic Analysis Of Deitic Expressions Of Friday’s Khutbah (Sermon) Discourse at MASJID Usman bin Fodiyo Fantai in Hadejia, Jigawa State

Haruna Bello Ibrahim and Dr. Ngbede John Oyishoma


The Daring Female Voice: Collective Identity and Security in the Spoken Word Poetry of Women in Northern Nigeria

Dikko Muhammad


Beyond Mutual Intelligibility: A Sociolinguistic Study of Nigerian Pidgin English Usage in Digital Communication

Safiyya Magaji Ado and Kaan, Aondover Theophilus (PhD)


A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender-Based Differences in Perceived Motivations for Code Alternation in Southern Nigerian Contemporary Christian Music

Prof. Emmanuel Adedayo Adedun and Tolulope Grace Ojo


Pragmatic Analysis of Praise and Worship Songs Rendered at Selected United Evangelical Churches in Lokoja, Kogi State

Idegu, A. Solomon, Ph.D


The Role of Courtiers in Shehu of Borno’s Palace: Preservation and Promotion of Linguistics and Cultural Diffusion

Tahir Abbac, PhD


Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Institutional Identities on Badges of Colleges of Education in Kano State

Umar Uba Abubakar, Ph.D


A Corpus-Based Analysis of 4-Word Lexical Bundles in UMYU Postgraduate Corpus

Abdulhakim Saidu and Abdul-Aziz Lawal


Digital Language Education, Utilization and Effectiveness of Zoom Apps in Language Learning: A Case Study of Selected Secondary Schools in Adamawa State

Aliyu Muhammad Bajaji and Idris Bello


A Study of Semantic Compositionality in Hausa Compound Words

Muhammad Dayyib Auwal PhD and Yusuf Ahmed Gwarzo PhD


Transitivity Analysis of Newspaper Headlines on Terrorists/bandits Attack on Nigerian Abuja-Kaduna train

Umar Ibrahim


Reflection of Power and Ideologies: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of 2023 Media Headlines on Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy Removal

Umar Ibrahim


Conversational Implicature Theory: An Exploration of its Types, Characteristics and Benefits

Lawal Shu’aibu Gumel , PhD and Haruna Wada Adamu


From Idealism to Corruption: Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of Power in Orwell’s Animal Farm and Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Dr. Khaleel Bakheet Khaleel Ismail