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

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; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating discussions around a universe of discourse, sufficient to engender cross-border interactions within the African context, this book shall break a dichotomy of challenges on adaptive processes required to unify resources to assist the development of modern solutions for the African domain. 

Language, Proverbs, Power and Male Chauvinism in Anaang Society.- A Morphological Description of Proverbial ?g?l? 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 ?kd Ibibio Speech Rhythm: Two Phonetic Paradigms.- An Epigraphy of Igbo Inscriptions on Tricycles in Aba.- The Nativisation Of English Language in Chimamanda Adichies Collection of Short Stories, The Thing Around Your Neck.- lóŸ