Communication for Social Mobilization in Selected MAMSER Campaign Speeches

Ekpe, Stella I.; Ekpang, Juliet N.

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“…Language provides the individual with a tool for the exploration and analysis of his conceptual ideas and this is what distinguishes and gives humans a unique position in the world. Edem (2005) maintains that one of the most important roles of human language is its role as a means of communication or interaction between members of the society. The source further notes that language helps man to establish social relations and other forms of network Oyeleye 2005).…”

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A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

Edem¹

2023

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics

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This study, ‘A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water’ examines how meaning is negotiated through the use of some cohesive devices in the text. Previous studies have concentrated on the treatment of environmental issues without much attention paid to how cohesive devices are coalesced in the text to produce meaning. Data for the analysis range from page one to one hundred of the primary text, Oil on Water. Also, the study focused on a qualitative research procedure and adopted Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) cohesion theory as a theoretical model, since this work focuses attention on the deployment of the writer’s mental schemata and use of lexical choices to affect meaning in a text. The study observes that words cannot stand in isolation, as they are related to each other in a text to produce predetermined meaning. This was achieved through the author’s careful use of some cohesive devices such as: reiteration, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy and meronymy, which improve the textual quality of the text. The study concludes that the author, through the use of cohesive devices, made reading of the text meaningful and easily understood by the reader.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

Edem¹

2023

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics

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Communication for Social Mobilization in Selected MAMSER Campaign Speeches

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A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

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