In the Linguistic Paradise: A Festschrift for E. Nolue Emenanjo (2) (Nigerian Linguists Festschrift)

In the Linguistic Paradise is the second volume in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series. The motivating force behind the establishment of the Festschrift Series is to honour outstanding scholars who have excelled in the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria. This volume is dedicated to Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo, a celebrated linguist and a pioneer professor of Igbo Linguistics. The book is organised in five sections, as follows: Language, History and Society; Literature, Stylistics and Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics; Formal Linguistics; and Tributes. There are 15 papers in the first section the majority address the perennial problem of language choice in Nigeria. Section two contains 10 papers focusing on literature, stylistics and pragmatics. Section three contains 17 papers a sizeable number of which focus on language teaching and learning, two are on lexicography, while others are on language engineering. Section three contains 16 papers focusing on the core areas of linguistics. In section four a biographical profile of Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo and list of publications is presented, while Nwadike examines the contributions of Emenanjo in Igbo Studies. (First issued in 2003; this version copyright date 2019.) Cover Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Preface Contents 1. Globalization, Multilingualism and the New Information and Communication Technologies 2. Terminological Research and Development in Nigerian Languages 3. Language & the National Question 4. The National Institute for Nigerian Languages (NINLAN) & a Comprehensive Language Census for Nigeria 5. The Languages of Kaduna State: A Linguistic Survey 6. Developing and Promoting Multilingualism in the Nigerian Public and Social Life for Modern Age 7. Stem-initial Obstruents in Proto Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid (PIYE) 8. A Socio-historical Account of the English Language in Nigeria 9. A Socio-historical Survey of English in Igboland 10. On the Use of Indigenous Languages for National Development in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects 11. On the Socio-cultural Dimension of Language Use: Evidence from Efik 12. Varieties of the Leggbo Language: A Preliminary Report 13. Towards Language Planning for Poverty Alleviation 14. Dialect Communities & Language Vitality 15. Language, Tradition and Change in the Igbo Video Film 16. Evaluation of Literature in Nigerian Languages 17. A Syntactic Study of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road 18. Communicative Structure in Dyadic Bargaining: The Case of Buying and Selling 19. Writing in Igbo: Heroes and Challenges 20. Metrical Structure & Lineation in Ewi Iremolekun (Yoruba Children’s Lullaby) 21. The Normative Use of Language by Society: Hausa as a Taciturn Speech Community 22. E.N. Emenanjo and Written Igbo Poetry 23. A Stylo-pragmatic Analysis of the Use of Agent-deletion in the University of Ibadan Official Bulletin 24. The Study of Literature in Nigerian Languages 25. Social Functions of Ngwa-Igbo Verbal Jokes 26. Effects of Instructional Strategies on Metacognitive Awareness in Reading among Secondary School Students in Akwa Ibom State 27. Teacher Training in English as a Second Language: A Veritable Weapon for Teachers’ Professional Refurbishment 28. Developing a Metalanguage for Urhobo: Problems & Prospects 29. Microteaching in Language: The Challenge for NINLAN 30. Nigerian Languages in the Contemporary Scientific Age: The Yoruba Model 31. On Multilingualism and the Medium of Instruction 32. Trends in the Development of Anaang 33. The Pedagogical Effects of Learning Yoruba in Dialectological Perspective 34. Some Reading Disabilities among JSS Students 35. Primary Education in the Mother-tongue in Nigeria: Problems & Prospects 36. The Psychology of Learning Languages by Adults 37. Means/End Rationality in the Use of English: Towards an Innovative Methodology 38. Lexicography & Igbo Standardization 39. A Study of R.N. Agheyisi’s An Edo-English Dictionary 40. The Development of Non-major Languages & Its Implications for Education in Nigeria: Focus on Margi 41. Research in the Igbo Language and the Issue of Publishing 42. The Teaching in Kiswahili in Nigeria: The Journey so Far 43. Low Tone Roots in Igboid 44. Intonation in Tone Languages: Insights from Esan 45. Towards an Element-based Phonological Analysis of the Igbo Vocalic & Consonantal System 46. Semantic Opacity in Igbo Verbs 47. Anaphoric Relations & Overt NPs: A Comparative Analysis of French & Hausa 48. On the Grammatical Classification of bá and fi in Yoruba 49. The Spec in Ngwa Igbo 50. Emphasis in Ibibio 51. On Wh-questions in Izọn 52. On the Class Concept 53. Aspectual Contrast in Urhobo 54. Justifying Linguistic Transformation 55. Complementizers in Ao 56. The Inverse Construction in Yoruba 57. The Syntax of Complement in Igbo 58. A Minimalist Account of Pro-drop in Degema 59. E. Nolue Emenanjo: A Bibliographical Profile & List of Publications 60. Nolue Emenanjo and Igbo Studies Back Cover

In the Linguistic Paradise is the second volume in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series. The motivating force behind the establishment of the Festschrift Series is to honour outstanding scholars who have excelled in the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria. This volume is dedicated to Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo, a celebrated linguist and a pioneer professor of Igbo Linguistics. The book is organised in five sections, as follows: Language, History and Society; Literature, Stylistics and Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics; Formal Linguistics; and Tributes. There are 15 papers in the first section the majority address the perennial problem of language choice in Nigeria. Section two contains 10 papers focusing on literature, stylistics and pragmatics. Section three contains 17 papers a sizeable number of which focus on language teaching and learning, two are on lexicography, while others are on language engineering. Section three contains 16 papers focusing on the core areas of linguistics. In section four a biographical profile of Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo and list of publications is presented, while Nwadike examines the contributions of Emenanjo in Igbo Studies.