Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics and Digital Humanities : A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Eno-Abasi Essien Urua

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways;

Language, Proverbs, Power and Male Chauvinism in Anaang Society.- A Morphological Description of Proverbial Ígálà Personal Names.- Linguistic Colonialism and Its Implications on Indigenous Languages in Nigeria.- Americanization Of English In Nigerian Broadcasting: A Sociophonetic Insight into Traditional News Broadcast Vs. Entertainment News Broadcast.- The Concept of Listening.- Syntax of Agreement in Ekid.- Religious Rhetoric and Church Development in Rural Nigeria.- A Contrastive Analysis of The Verbal Group Structures of English And Urhobo.- Inherent Complement Verbs in Ibibio.- A Phonological Description of Ibibio Individual Name.- Significance of The Ibibio Indigenous Songs in The Ibibio Cultural Heritage.- Bridging Language Gap, Promoting Deaf Literacy in Nigeria Through Indigenous Sign Languages.- Syntactic Analysis of Non-Basic Constructions In Ékᴉd Ibibio Speech Rhythm: Two Phonetic Paradigms.- An Epigraphy of Igbo Inscriptions on Tricycles in Aba.- The Nativisation Of English Language in Chimamanda Adichie''s Collection of Short Stories, The Thing Around Your Neck.- Level-Ordered Morphology in Bētē Simple Nouns.- A Morpho-Phonological Investigation of The Derivation of Izọ᷾N Numerals.- Oral Tradition and Literature: A Conceptual Analysis of Itu Mbon Uso Folktales.- Requesting Strategies in Nigerian And British English: A Corpus-Based Approach.- Polar Interrogative Strategies in Obolo.- Teachers'' Motivational Impacts on Second Language (L2) Learners'' Goal Attainment: The Eno-Abasi Urua Model.- The Language Factor in Information Dissemination for Development.- Language, Culture, and Identity: The Nigerian Situation Communication for Social Mobilization in Selected Mamser Campaign Speeches.- Body Parts as Grammatical Markers in Fulfulde: The Case of Prepositions.