Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Section A: Introduction of Ayo Ogunsiji. Marrying scholarship and Yoruba Culture: (Chief) prof. Ayo Ognnsiji, a cultured scholar / George Ogbonna Mbarah

Section B: Langaage, style and literary perspectives in texts. Proverbs and metaphors at the crossroads: The example of Soyiaka's Tfie Swamp Dwellers / Oyinkan Medubi ; Literature in the eye of semiotics: Illustrations from Aeliebe's Anthllls of the Savannah / Ibrahim Olaosun ; Language and social status in Wole Soyinka's The Beatificalion of Area Boy: A stylistic approach / Joseph Alagbe ; The structural and textual signification of endophoric reference in Adichie's novels / Terrumun Hembaor Gajir ; A stylistic study of the motivated local metaphors in Niyi Osundare's Village Voices / Tajudeen J. Adegoke & Taofeeq A. Adebayo ; Identity frames and the politics of fear in Olu Obafemi's Nights of a Mystical Beast / Fredrick F.G. John ; Style in the translation of proverbs in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Akinwumi Isola's Iku Olokun-Esin / Tola Okunlola ; Imagining society in Remi Raji's Gather My Blood Rivers of Song / Solomon O. Olaniyan ; Speaking the language of the Earth / Helen I. Adhuze, Charles A. Ogazie & F. T. Ajayi ; Nature signs in Bayo Adebowale's Village Harvest / Folorunso Oladeji Ladapo

Section C: Discourse, applied linguistics and sociolinguistic tendencies. Rhetorical relations in presidential concession speeches of Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and John Mahama of Ghana / Ayo Osisanwo & Emmanuel Chinaguh ; An action theory analysis of a south-western Nigerian Christian deliverance discourse / Moses Adebayo Aremu ; The English mood system in the language of courtroom interrogations / Vivian O. Olubakin & Abiola S. Kalejaiye ; Disambiguating amphibolies in English through tree diagramming / J.O. Ojo & L.L. Asowata ; Handling public faces: A discursive analysis of 2015 presidential media chat in Nigeria / Olalekan Tunde Adepoju ; Pragmatic presupposition in Facebook-sponsored advertisements / Idayat Modupe Lamidi ; Interrogation in Nigerian police-suspect discourse / Raifa Olanrewaju Farinde ; A critical study of advocacy discourse and visuals on human trafficking and terrorism in Nigeria / Mojirayo Patricia Oyebamiji ; Role and practical utilities of languages in the south-western part of Nigeria / Yemi Ogunsiji & J.A. Olaseinde ; Mental and context models of ideological expressions of participants in Nigerian television talk shows / Ruth Karachi Oji ; Between adequacy and expediency: A comparative assessment of the general studies English programme in Nigerian polytechnics and universities / Adegboye Adeyanju

Section D: Pragmatics and meaning in contexts. Social pragmatics in the aspects of cohesion in Nigerian Pentecostal church sermons / A. Lekan Oyeleye & M. Lekan Oduola ; Impoliteness strategies and cognition in Niyi Osundare's Return of the Penkelemesi Era / Sola Timothy Babatunde & Moses Adebayo Aremu ; The pragmatics of interrogative responses in spoken discourses in selected higher institutions in Ibadan / Ganiu Bamgbose ; Persuasive strategies in selected speeches of Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo / Oluwayemisi Olusola Akinmameji ; Politeness strategies in network marketing discourse in the Nigerian context / Oladayo Ogunsiji ; Language and power relations in billboard advertisements of drinks in Ibadan metropolis / Lydia Tomilola Olaifa ; Speech acts in Goodluck Jonathan's inaugural speech / Idowu Odebode & Temilola Okunola

Section E: A tip from the honoree's intellectual spring. The power and politics of language: The challenges of language policies and choice in the multilingual Nigerian setting / Ayo Ogunsiji

Index

A short biodata of professor Ayo Ogunsiji

Notes on editors.