The Development Of Izon Language

Author : Martha I. Akpana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015059568959

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The Development of Izon Language by Martha I. Akpana Pdf

A collection of six essays pertaining to the language situation in the Niger Delta region, and in particular, to the language of the Izon people. The Izon live widely dispersed along the Nigeria coastline and amongst the creeks and rivers of the Niger Delta, and their language is thought to be one of the oldest of the region. Angles addressed in this study include: language as a tool for self- development and cultural advancement; language planning for education and development; and the potentials for the study of Izon. A final chapter considers the state of publishing in Nigerian languages. Some of the contributors are the Professors Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa, Kay Williamson, and John Cecil Buseri.

Author : Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa,John Pepper Clark
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789788195429

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The Izon of the Niger Delta by Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa,John Pepper Clark Pdf

The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo, or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analysis of the Ijo population, the language, culture, resources, history and linkage to the rest of Nigeria and the world. In effect these chapters provide a synopsis of the Ijo in the past and their situation in the present.

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele,Mustapha Ahmad
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 1129 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785431193

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Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele,Mustapha Ahmad Pdf

The papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UVA:X001326759

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The Journal of West African Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Fardon,Graham Furniss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134868049

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African Languages, Development and the State by Richard Fardon,Graham Furniss Pdf

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015066139653

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International African Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416466

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Studies in Nigerian Linguistics by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

Studies in Nigerian Linguistics is a compilation of research papers on topical issues in Nigerian languages and linguistics covering three main areas of research, viz.: Language and Society, Applied Linguistics and Formal Linguistics. The papers in this volume are sectioned as such, even though there are bits of overlapping, especially for some of the papers contained in the first and second sections. The first fifteen (15) papers focus on the major theme of Language and Society in Nigeria. Many of the papers in this section address some peculiar sociolinguistic issues that affect the nation, including the nagging and lingering problem regarding the “language question” for the Nigerian nation even after five decades of the attainment of “Political Independence”, language and national development and language varieties. Section 2 contains papers in Applied Linguistics in its narrow and extended senses. There are papers on language teaching and learning, interference and intraference phenomena, language engineering (with focus on codification), communication disorders, and much more. The third section contains sixteen (16) papers in the core areas of linguistics, including phonology, morphology and syntax of Nigerian languages. Some of the papers address aspects of the phonological and morphosyntactic processes of deletion, affixation, cliticisation, causativisation, complementation, serialisation, agreement, and much more. The phrasal structure and pronominal systems of some languages were also discussed.

Author : Sanju Tiwari,Fernando Ortiz Rodriguez,Sarra Ben Abbes,Patience Usoro Usip,Rim Hantach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000911220

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Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs by Sanju Tiwari,Fernando Ortiz Rodriguez,Sarra Ben Abbes,Patience Usoro Usip,Rim Hantach Pdf

Recent combinations of semantic technology and artificial intelligence (AI) present new techniques to build intelligent systems that identify more precise results. Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs locates itself at the forefront of this novel development, uncovering the role of machine learning to extend the knowledge graphs by graph mapping or corpus-based ontology learning. Securing efficient results via the combination of symbolic AI and statistical AI such as entity extraction based on machine learning, text mining methods, semantic knowledge graphs, and related reasoning power, this book is the first of its kind to explore semantic AI and knowledge graphs. A range of topics are covered, from neuro-symbolic AI, explainable AI and deep learning to knowledge discovery and mining, and knowledge representation and reasoning. A trailblazing exploration of semantic AI in knowledge graphs, this book is a significant contribution to both researchers in the field of AI and data mining as well as beginner academicians.

Author : Victor Oguejiofor Okafor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313355875

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Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and Its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement by Victor Oguejiofor Okafor Pdf

Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement is the first book to recount and analyze Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007. Because Nigeria's immense and diverse population of 140 million people and its wealth of natural resources make it a microcosm of Africa, Nigerian politics are an ideal case study and bellwether by which to view and understand African politics and the ongoing democratic experiments on the continent. Ten leading scholars of Nigerian and African politics, variously based in Nigeria, the US, and Europe, contribute original chapters commissioned by Professor Okafor to provide an account at once deep and comprehensive of what went wrong with these disputed presidential, federal, and state elections; together with their implications for the future of the democratic movement, both in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole. Although the 2007 general elections resulted in the first-ever handover of political power from one civilian government to another in the history of Nigeria, by which the two-term Christian president Olusegun Obasanjon was succeeded by a Muslim, Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua, they were condemned by internal and international watchdogs for pervasive vote-rigging, violence, intimidation, and fraud which were, as this book documents, perpetrated by and with the connivance of the nation's security forces. The disappointment of continental hopes that these elections might finally break with Nigeria's history of tainted elections has grave repercussions for the democracy movement not only in Nigeria but throughout Africa-as seen in the knock-on effect upon the disastrous general elections in Kenya later the same year.

Author : Egbe Ifie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Imagery (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : IND:30000065124665

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Poets and Their Environment by Egbe Ifie Pdf

Author : Clara Ikekeonwu,Innọ Ụzọma Nwadike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Igbo language
ISBN : IND:30000111451567

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Igbo Language Development by Clara Ikekeonwu,Innọ Ụzọma Nwadike Pdf

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785644005

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Four Decades in the Study of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

This volume is produced in commemoration of the official retirement of Professor Kay Williamson from the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The contributing essayists cover five main generations of Nigerian linguists. The collection is divided into six sections: Language, history and Society; Applied Linguistics and Orthography Design; Gender and Communication Studies; Stylistics and Literature; Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Translation; and Formal Linguistics. Some of the contributors include: Ayo Bamgbose, Okon Essie, Ben Elugbe, P.A. Nwachukwu, E.N. Emenanjo, P. Anagbogu, Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche, O.M. Ndimele, O.G. Harry, Levi Igwe, C.U. Omego, O. Ojukwu, A.U. Weje, O.N. Anyanwu and A. Idafuro.

Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027221421

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Language Contact and Language Conflict by Martin Pütz Pdf

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation of language in intercultural contact; it includes case studies pertaining to multilingual settings, for example in Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and Europe. The volume opens with a foreword by Dell H. Hymes.

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416497

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Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele Pdf

The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785644074

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In the Linguistic Paradise by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele Pdf

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.