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Author(s):
Sanusi Aderibigbe Maroof, Adesiyan Oyinade Funke, Abobarin Adewale Adebanjo, Adegbite Ismaila Olawale.
Page No : 1-10
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Effective Communication: A Stimulant to Employees’ Performance in an Organization
Abstract
Communication is a corporeal part of everyday life. People see communication differently in their own perspective. Some may regard it as an act, a way of expressing eloquent ideas to others; some use it as a way of earning a living, like being in customer service sector; while some people may treat it as a therapeutic way of just sharing personal thought to someone dear to them. Many industrial disputes originate due to failure in communication. Hence, it is important to stress that in communication, emotions, environment, psychological and technical characteristics of the medium is relevant to enhance the organizational performance. This paper is however aimed at examining effective communication as a stimulant for employees’ performance. To achieve this, statistical tools of descriptive and inferential tools of Chi-square and correlation were employed on 40 sampled respondents from employees of International Breweries Plc, Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria using stratified random sampling technique. The analysis showed that effective communication stimulates decision making process, encourages effective communication among employees, and that there is the presence of effective communication in International Breweries Plc, Ilesha, Osun State Nigeria. It is thereby recommended that the management should maintain and proffer more communication strategies between them and the workers.
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Author(s):
Isaac Eyi Ngulube, Nwamaka Chinyere Stanley.
Page No : 11-44
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Standard English and the Distortion Introduced by Social Media Short Messages
Abstract
This study assesses the negative effect of social media text messaging on the Standard Written English of Nigerian undergraduates. Data is elicited from the written English of undergraduates from the three most popularly used social media websites in Nigeria; namely, Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. The data is analyzed using a simple percentage. The results are presented in tabular form. The study reveals that the use of social media text messaging prevalent on social media platforms has impacted negatively, the Standard of written English of Nigerian university undergraduates. The study further observes that the major areas of deviation found in the written English language of the undergraduates include: wrong punctuation, wrong spelling, breaking of concord/agreement rules, code-mixing and code-switching, etc. The study shows that to a large extent, the use of text messages has affected adherence to Standard written English of undergraduates in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that urgent pragmatic measures are needed to curb the problem. Specifically, the study recommends the following measures as checks: to awaken the consciousness of the undergraduates to the importance of the use of the Standard English language in their communication; to urge the media to use its functions as a watchdog of society to sensitize the public and condemn the profuse use of social media text at the expense of the use of Standard English and to enlighten undergraduates to use Standard English in all forms of their formal communication to uphold the continued development of Standard English usage in the universities and society at large.
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Author(s):
Oguntunji Abidemi Emman.
Page No : 45-57
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Ethnocentric Conflict and Hatred in Olu Obafemi’s Near and Distant Cries
Abstract
The continuous, unending and unabated killings from clashes between various ethnic groups in Nigeria have been continual features on the pages, screens and sounds of the various forms of media. The dramatic text employed in this study, Olu Obafemi’s Near and Distant Cries, portrays vividly the nearly-extinct polarised unity of our dear nation resulting from the clashes. These clashes have led to the death of thousands of people, displaced families, and turned children into orphans, wives into widows and husbands into single parents. This study thus explores the relationship between literature and society, taking into serious consideration the use of literature as a viable tool for resolving ethnic conflict and hatred in contemporary Nigerian society. It also highlights the solution required in curbing the excesses of parties involved in the continual conflicts. This paper concludes by highlighting and revalidating the social commitment of literature in the resolution of ethnic conflicts, ensuring peace and stability and promoting nation.
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Author(s):
Angela Folahan Egele (Ph.D), Monica Ladi Ugheoke.
Page No : 58-68
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Language Death in Akoko-Edo: A Study of Some Students’ Attitude to Native Dialects in Akoko-Edo, Edo-State
Abstract
Language is God’s special gift to mankind. Without language, human civilization, as we now know it, would have remained impossible. It is a carrier of civilization and culture, as human thoughts and philosophy are conveyed from one generation to the other through the medium of language. However, just like living things, languages die. Language death occurs when there are no more speakers of a particular language. In Edo-State, Akoko-Edo Local Government Area (LGA) to be precise, some indigenous dialects are about to go into extinction. Therefore, this paper examines the attitude of students to some native dialects in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo-State. The study used questionnaires to gather data on students’ perspective on why they think some native dialects in this particular part of the state are going into extinction. The results revealed that a considerable number of students’ attitude to their native dialects were not positive. The study revealed that various social phenomena have greatly affected some native dialects in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area. In the light of the results, the study recommends that necessary measures and awareness be created to sustain these threatened dialects. This is because young people constitute the future of the nation and if this trend is not checked, it will affect the coming generations.
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Author(s):
Ibrahim Omolabi.
Page No : 69-89
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The Pragmatic Acts in Selected Nigerian Print Media Reports on the Abducted Chibok School Girls
Abstract
A news report is a form of writer-reader negotiated meaning and contextual consideration of language, structure, and verbal codes. Thus, the study explored the various pragmatic acts performed in news reports on the abducted Chibok girls in Nigeria, especially the construction of acts or meaning through verbal codes. Using Mey’s (2001) aspects of pragmatic acts as the theoretical framework undergirded the study, a total of thirteen (13) verbal reports were purposively selected from three Nigerian newspapers (The Nation, Daily Trust & The Punch) and analysed from the points of pragmatic acts, Searle’s (1969) classification of Speech acts, implicature and presupposition. The study revealed that instantiated acts (practs) are pragmatically patterned to perform some acts of informing, reporting to the audience, stating the fact in the news reports on the abducted Chibok girls and playing some roles in social change. The study also revealed that The Nation, Dail Trust and The Punch deploy their news reports through implicit practs of castigating the spate of insecurity and condemning the ineptitude of security agents towards rescuing the abducted Chibok girls. The study also showed that the preponderant occurrences of factive presupposition were due to the fact that the assumptions being made about the news of the abducted Chibok girls are actual, real and easily embedded in the news report. The study concludes that Nigerian newspapers play a role in setting the boundaries of what is talked about; shaping social issues happening around the nation and exposing them to their readership.
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Author(s):
Eventus Edem (Ph.D).
Page No : 90-101
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A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
Abstract
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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Author(s):
Uche Nnyagu (Ph.D), Ugwuafia Abraham Ogbonna, Onunkwo Benedette Ngozi, Ike Peace.
Page No : 102-113
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Depravity in Ifeanyi Ajaegbo’s Sarah House
Abstract
As living conditions in societies get harder on a daily basis with no hope in sight as to the remedies, people in different parts of societies indulge in forms of immoral acts for survival. Young people, against their wishes, are trafficked for the purpose of prostitution and other ignominious reasons. The depravity that societies are thrown into seriously affects their economic and moral development negatively. It is pathetic that mainly, prominent politicians elected into strategic positions abet the immoralities for their selfish reasons. The kingpins of the shady deals see themselves as the owners of the society; hence, they give impetus to their stooges who operate without fear. Concerned creative writers and other artists decry this ugly trend by mirroring the ill activities in their works in a way that the effects on societies are made obvious. This paper thus aims to x-ray the various forms of depravity as mirrored by Ifeanyi Ajaegbo in Sarah House, expose those involved in the nefarious acts and, as well, explore the consequent effects on societies.
