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Item The morphosyntactic and morphophonological study of Igbo desentential personal names(2016-11-03) Obiamalu, G.; Lamidi, M.T.Scholars on anthroponyms are agreed that African names are not mere appellations. Igbo personal names are loaded with pragmatic, historical and ideational information and meanings. The names represent normal language expressions. This is why Igbo names could occur in different structural forms ranging from single lexical items to clauses. The clausal names could be simple declarative (affirmative and negative), conditional/subjunctive, imperative/prohibitive and interrogative. Igbo names could be derived from virtually every type of structure in the language. Based on the general assumption that names are supposed to be brief and mnemonic, this paper focuses on the processes of morphemic reduction and nominalization of Igbo desentential (clausal) names and the consequential phonological and morphological processes of elision, assimilation, clipping and tonal changes. These processes could lead to changes in the meaning of the names, or lead to total loss of meaning which could only be recovered by some etymological reconstructions.Item Multimodal Code-pairing and Switching of Visual-verbal Texts in Selected Nigerian Stand-up Comedy Performance(2016-11-10) Lamidi, M.T.; Adika, G.Scholars have often discussed the verbal form of code-switching involving different Nigerian languages and English from different perspectives; but the visual-verbal forms, involving a multimodal combination of different indigenous languages, paralinguistic features as well as costume, have enjoyed less attention. Visual-verbal texts are important means of conveying information and they are sometimes used by Nigerian stand-up comedians to elicit laughter during performances. Studies on stand-up comedy in Nigeria have also concentrated largely on monomodal verbal utterances, neglecting gestures/paralinguistic features. This study, therefore, examines multimodal pairing and switching of codes as features of visual-verbal texts and how they are used as strategies for eliciting laughter in Nigerian stand-up comedy. The study adopts Incongruity theory and Visual Semiotics as theoretical framework. Performances recorded in digital video discs (DVDs) and video clips of stand-up comedy performances downloaded from the Internet were selected through purposive random sampling method. Only those clips that involve the use of multimodal communication are randomly selected for the study. The stand-up comedians featured in the data spread across different cadres of stand-up comedians and across the major ethnic groups in Nigeria (Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) and a few others. Hence, the data is considered representative of different categories of stand-up comedians in Nigeria. They were analysed through content analysis.