English Literary Studies Project Topic: English literary research topics I understand can be quite technical than you think but as long as final year project research is concerned, the technically has to be put at bay and allow structure to take its full course. To make this happen, project topics in English literary studies should be chosen following stipulated guidelines for presenting undergraduate project topics and research materials. English literary studies trends is fleeting and changes with time; therefore final year project students of English literary studies should choose project topics that are relevant, dated, time-bound and researchable. The project topics for research in this field are much often tasking and require in-depth research to arrive a considerable conclusion.
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LIST OF ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS | ||
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A POSTMODERNIST REPRESENTATION IN BEN OKRI’S THE FAMISHED ROAD AND FLOWERS AND SHADOWSAbstract This dissertation titled: A postmodernist Representation in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Flowers and Shadows is premised on the argument that irrespective of their individual themes, novels are significant mechanisms of presentation or representation of thoughts and ideas through semblances circumscribed by narration or telling, all of which are contingent upon various represent... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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FOLKLORE AND THE QUEST FOR REINVENTION: A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND A KING’S HORSEMEN AND HOPE EGHAGHA’S DEATH NOT A REDEEMERABSTRACT Folklore as an aspect of the African oral tradition has been traced to traditional African society handed down by customs, beliefs and an aspect of culture handed down by our for forefathers through orature. Conflict that arises over death and the quest for re invention in the plays of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and Hope Eghagha’s Death not a Red... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
120 pages |
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THE PROBLEMS OF INDIGENOUS BOOK PUBLISHING IN NIGERIA PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF PUBLISHING IN AFRICA: INSIGHT FROM A NIGERIAN INDIGENOUS PUBLISHING ...ABSTRACT Book publishing seems to be taking the back seat in the “comity” of mass media especially in Africa. The import of publishing is communication. The book at present is one of the most important tools for that purpose; however, not much is known about book publishing especially in developing countries. It is in this regard therefore that this study explored the problems of indig... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
51 pages |
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A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEADABSTRACT This work studied the discourse analysis of Athol Fugard’sSizweBansi is Dead. The encoded meaning in the conversational exchange among the characters in play has been analyzed through the use of some discourse elements like, turn taking, discourse participant etc. and also some pragmatics elements like context, implicature, reference etc. Chapter one is the general introduction, rel... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SOCIO-POLITICAL COLUMNS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERSABSTRACT The Ethnography of a linguistic text is a sociolinguistic approach to determine the communicative competence of the text. A lot of speech events have been studied using Dell Hymes Act of SPEAKING. However, there is a dearth of such studies on the socio political columns of Nigerian Newspaper especially using the ethnographic theory to determine the level of communicative competence in it.... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
70 pages |
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CULTURE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUSABSTRACTOver the years, the major challenge facing the female folk is discrimination and unfair treatment in the society. This work discusses cultural practices that discriminate against women. This research work is a critical analysis of two African novels: Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of motherhood, and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. For secondary sources, materials were got from the inte... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
49 pages |
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DIASPORA, IDENTITY FORMATION AND CRISIS OF BELONGING IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S SECOND CLASS CITIZEN AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S AMERICANAHABSTRACT Diasporic literature centres on the experiences of people all around the world who leave their homelands in search of ―greener pastures‖ or are forced out of such homelands for various reasons. As a neo colonialist tendency, the search for greener pastures is often perceived as the way out of the socio political dilemma of 21st century Nigeria. To repudiate this ―green pasture‖ fa... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
122 pages |
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HISTORICISM AS A LITERARY DISCOURSE: A STUDY OF ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S THE LAST DUTY, ELECHI AMADI’S SUNSET IN BIAFRA AND BIYI BANDELE’S BURMA BOYABSTRACT This study deploys Historicism as a literary discourse to the analysis of the selected writings of Isidore Okpewho, Elechi Amadi and Biyi Bandele. The study argues that Historicism emerged in the 19th Century as a method of investigating how texts of all kinds come to terms with their putative contexts. In spite of this, the application of Historicism to the analysis of texts on the inter... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
95 pages |
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NATURE AND NURTURE IN SELECTED NOVELS OF AGARY KAINE, OKPEWHO ISIDORE, AND ABAGHA ANTHONYABSTRACT The effects of nature and nurture on lives cut across disciplines and deal with the question of what determines patterns of human behaviour, including the results of conflicts in nature and nurture of the characters in the environment. This work studies the influence of nature and nurture in the Niger Delta region through the characters of the novels with response to the issues emanating ... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
100 pages |
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A SOCIO-PRAGRAMATIC STUDY OF AMA ATTA AIDOO’S CHANGES AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUNABSTRACT Gender and language differences are integral field of study in sociolinguistics that accounts for the way language is used in the society and the choices people make when speaking. This is usually complemented by pragmatics. A number of studies have been done on gender and language differences, however, there appears to be inadequate research on the socio pragmatic investigation of gender... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
101 pages |
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A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF T-SHIRT INSCRIPTIONSABSTRACTThis study examined the Semantic Analysis of T Shirt Inscriptions under the following perspectives: education, politics, advertisement and religion. It reviewed some scholar's works on the concepts of Semantics, Graphology and Inscriptions. The method and procedures involved in the evaluation of the stated objectives of the research work included random sampling with the use of questionnai... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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PATTERNS OF INTERACTION IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: CLASSROOM: A SURVEY OF J.S.S CLASSESABSTRACTThe study attempted to investigate the patterns of interaction in English language JSS2 classroom in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The study equally reviewed some important and extensive literatures under sub headings. The descriptive research survey design was applied in the assessment of respondents’ opinions towards the subject matter.In this study, two null ... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY AND RAP SONGS: A STUDY OF SELECTED RAP SONGS OF GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVEABSTRACT Rap music as one of the elements of hip hop culture originated in New York’s South Bronx neighbourhood in the late 1970s. Its lyrics provide a powerful lens through which to view the many dimensions of the African American predicament. As a form, Rap music is for African Americans the means to pen down their history and social circumstances and forge their identities out of the whit... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
127 pages |
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A PRAGMA-DISCOURSE STUDY OF FACE-SAVING AND FACE-THREATENING ACTS ON THE BBC’S HARDTALK INTERVIEWAbstract The media is a powerful tool of influence in societies. Media interviews provide a special platform that showcases how language is used. This study focuses on the Pragmatic concepts of Face Saving and Face Threatening Acts on the BBC‘S HardTalk interview. It attempts to find out what kind of acts interlocutors on interviews perform; how face threats affect interlocutors and how they... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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DIALOGUE AS DISCOURSE: AN ANALYSIS OF NTA KADUNA EDITORIAL BOARD’S USE OF LANGUAGEABSTRACT This study seeks to examine the spoken language used during NTA Kaduna Newsroom Editorial Board Meetings with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in newsroom dialogue. The usual assumption by discourse analysts is that language used in i... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
127 pages |
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THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN CHILD’S LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT IN FUNTUA EDUCATION ZONE, KATSINA STATECHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study There has been shortage of speculation about the origins of human speech. One general fact however is that no human being is born speaking a language. Some of the speculations about the origin of language include the divine source which holds that God created Adam and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name there of (G... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
72 pages |
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A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NIGERIAN APPELLATE COURT JUDGEMENTSABSTRACT Scientific study of language and its implication in analysis of court judgement is yet to be given as much scholarly attention as other legal genres. Most of the work that has been done so far on Appellate Court Judgements (ApCJs) focus more on stylistic analysis and do not investigate the import of meta linguistic meanings. Correspondingly, most studies on power relations in the courtroo... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
154 pages |
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND HAUSA NOMINAL PHRASESAbstract This research studies the occurrence of the constructions and functions of NPs in English and Hausa languages, and finds out the similarities and differences that exist between them. Data are collected from primary and secondary sources, i.e. published Grammar, Linguistics and Comparative Analysis, unpublished lecture note; internet based material as well as personal observation. The data... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
95 pages |
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MERGER OF THEME AND STYLE IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND ZAYNAB ALKALI’S THE VIRTUOUS WOMANABSTRACT This work is a study of the merger of theme and style in Chimamada Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman. It is an analysis of how special configuration of language has been used in the realisation of a particular subject matter/theme in the two novels to achieve a specific aesthetic purpose. The linguistic means as applied in the two novels include ... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
76 pages |
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LEXICO - SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF VIEWPOINT COLUMN OF PUNCH NEWSPAPERABSTRACT Facts have been established by researchers and they justify that the English used in Nigeria is a variation of the British English (BE) and not a deviation from the norms of BE. This is an attempt to investigate the extent to which Nigerian columnists use the lexico semantic features of Nigerian English for their reportings. This work has adopted the lexico semantic variation of Nigerian ... Continue Reading »
Item Type & Format: Project Material - Ms Word |
52 pages |
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