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The feminist movement has been a contending issue recently as there have been calls for gender equality in all facets of life owing to the injustice meted out to them; hence, it is in this regard that this research seeks to carry out a stylistic analysis of the Revolt on the Bumpy Chested by Stella Oyedepo. This stylistic research underpins how the author exemplifies the idea of feminism in the text in contrast with the reaction of men alike. It focuses on the tools that aid how she maximally underscores her characters to spiral the feministic ideology. This research critically considers how women are empowered for roles meant for men and how this transition is enveloped in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When a writer writes, it is with the intention of conveying some moods to the readers and audience. Embedded in literary texts are various types of mood which conveys diverse messages to the readers and audience. This study attempts an appraisal of the mood types in the courtroom scene of Olu Olagoke's The Incorruptible Judge. The analytical tool proposed by Gibbons' (2008), forensic questioning model was adopted as analytical tool for the play. The study reveals such mood types as fear, anger, sorrow, gloom, rejection, etc. The study concludes by recommending further analyses with texts containing courtroom discourse as they are modeled after real life situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using data from widely circulated SMSes from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this paper provides a lexical-syntactic analysis of language use by a government agency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The framework used for the analysis is dyadic, encompassing tenets from semantic theory (which deals extensively with lexical choices as well as the determination of the meanings attached to them) and Systemic Functional Grammar. The analysis reveals that a writer's selection of lexical items in a particular text is a reflection of his mood. This plays a significant and important role in the writer's arrangement of the lexical items into peculiar sentence patterns in the text. Mood which is a system at the deep structure of Systemic Functional Grammar determines, to a very large extent, the language a writer employs in a text. Repetition in NCDC COVID-19 sensitisation messages is used to emphasize the importance of such words. It is meant to further convince the general public that only self-efforts or actions can prevent the spread of COVID-19 as majority of the repeated words are action stimulated words (verbs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]