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Language & Linguistics

The Semantics of Rhetoric in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 24, No. 1 · 18 May 2018

This paper examined the concern of the limitations of human language, which create a confusion of ideas and impairment of meaning, through a qualitative analysis of Willian Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The Ideational The...

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Cultural Studies

Revitalizing Men’s Initiation Music in Igbodo Community Etche Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria

Adiele, Chidi — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2017

The initiation ceremony involves elaborate dances. Lifestyle after the initiation process is what matters most in men’s initiation ceremony. This research aims at documenting men’s initiation process and songs used in Ig...

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Sociology & Anthropology

An Exposition of Problems of Darwinism in Sociobiology

Emmanuel B. Eyo — University of Calabar · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 July 2017

The aim of this paper is to expose the thrust of Charles Darwin’s theory of social and biological evolution and also restate that his theory of evolution reveals some imperfections especially in the study of socio biolog...

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Cultural Studies

Complementizers as Functional Heads in Urhobo-English Code Switching

Akpofure Oduaran — Delta State University · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 February 2017

Pidgin and creoles, mixed languages and code-switching are some of the main outcomes of language contact. In Nigeria, as well as other ex-colonial countries in sub-saharan Africa, code-switching between the ex-colonial...

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Gender & Identity Studies

What was the Notion of ‘The Other’ in Antiquity? An Examination from the Perspective of the Ancient Greeks

Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi

The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a greater or superior group, using certain social distin...

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Sociology & Anthropology

An Ethical Appraisal of Neil Manson’s Formulation of the Precautionary Principle

Chinedu B. Ajuruchi — Imo State Polytechnic · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Harm to human life and the environment has been identified as a recurrent concomitance of many developmental projects in human society. Hence, to safeguard human life and the environment from development-induced harm, th...

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