this paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in southwestern nigeria. the data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six southwestern states in nigeria (osun, oyo, ondo, ekiti, ogun, and lagos). the data were analyzed using halliday’s (1985) syste...

dementia is a syndrome encompassing many intellectual domains that can be broadly defined as an overall decline in intellectual function including difficulties with language, simple calculations, planning and judgment and motor skills as well as loss of memory. a genetic cause is identified in only a minority of patients, but patients and their family members are frequently concerned about the ...

due to his nature, man always asks questions about the meaning of things. all branches of knowledge and civilization are the answers he has given to the mystery of being, of his own and of other things. here, the question about the meaning of action is also considerably important. in this study, we are going to analyze the answers given from a sociological view to the question about the meaning...

As the use of ‘diaspora’ has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamen...

Abstract Both ‘sign’ and ‘symbol’ are words with a long polysemic history in Western culture. Moreover, the 120-year of modern semiotics movement has failed to provide highly needed definition these most basic terms, thus resulting ambiguity discipline itself. This paper proposes defining ‘sign/symbol’ as ‘a sensuous entity be regarded carrying meaning’. Furthermore, terminological chaos that a...

Focus on form has received considerable attention as researchers and theorists have enthusiastically embraced an integration of meaning-focused and form-focused instruction in the L2 classroom. Therefore, the present paper is an attempt to delve deeply into elucidating different taxonomies subsumed under the specious polarization of Focus on Form (FoF) and Focus on Forms (FoFs). It then offers ...