Diri I Teilanyo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1317502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diri I Teilanyo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diri I |
| FAMILY NAME | Teilanyo |
| SIGNATURE | TEILANYO D I |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 University of Benin [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2755-4954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rhetoric and Rivalry
Politics almost always entails opposition and rivalry as individuals and groups compete for power and influence. This essay juxtaposes the use of rhetoric among political rivals in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God with the use of such language among present-day Nigerian politicians. Parallels are drawn between the utterances of such characters as Ezeulu, Nwaka, and Ezidemili in Arrow of God and those of Nigerian political personalities like Olusegun …
Literary Usage in English as a Second Language in Nigeria
This paper studies the challenges involved in the nonlit-eral use of English in nonnative settings as exemplified and parodied in two Nigerian mass-media comedies, Icheoku and Masquerade . It draws attention, first to the nonstandardness observed in the use of English idiomatic expressions, tropes, maxims, and African proverbs, and second, to the problems involved in comprehending and interpreting the contextual imports of these metaphorical uses…
Figurative Language in Translation
The interlingual translation of figurative expressions and idioms is a particularly sensitive task, especially in literary texts where the figurativeness of the language is an inalienable part of the text as a literary piece. Since modern thinking on translation favours fidelity to the source text, the translator is required to maintain – rather than improve, reduce or otherwise alter – the figurative texture of the source text in the target text…
The Use of Bombast in Nigeria
This paper investigates the use of bombast in second-language (English) contexts as exemplified and parodied in the mass-media comedies Icheoku and Masquerade. It points out the prevalence of "bombasters" in Nigeria, identifies the general elements of bombast as an essential feature of nonstandard English, and identifies the expressive and perceptive dimensions of bombast. It argues that the use of bombast indicates the speaker's ignorance of or …
The Use of Bombast in Nigeria
This paper investigates the use of bombast in second-language (English) contexts as exemplified and parodied in the mass-media comedies Icheoku and Masquerade. It points out the prevalence of bombasters in Nigeria, identifies the general elements of bombast as an essential feature of nonstandard English, and identifies the expressive and perceptive dimensions of bombast. It argues that the use of bombast indicates the speaker's ignorance of or in…
Translating African ideophones
Ideophones are linguistic devices that feature prominently in African discourse and are part of the identity of African oral literature. The present article discusses the translation into English of African ideophones, using the The Ozidi Saga, an Ijo epic narrative recorded and translated into English by the Nigerian writer J. P. Clark for exemplification. The article describes a number of structural and semantic means Clark employed to convey I…
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Translating African ideophones
Ideophones are linguistic devices that feature prominently in African discourse and are part of the identity of African oral literature. The present article discusses the translation into English of African ideophones, using the The Ozidi Saga, an Ijo epic narrative recorded and translated into English by the Nigerian writer J. P. Clark for exemplification. The article describes a number of structural and semantic means Clark employed to convey I…
The Use of Bombast in Nigeria
This paper investigates the use of bombast in second-language (English) contexts as exemplified and parodied in the mass-media comedies Icheoku and Masquerade. It points out the prevalence of "bombasters" in Nigeria, identifies the general elements of bombast as an essential feature of nonstandard English, and identifies the expressive and perceptive dimensions of bombast. It argues that the use of bombast indicates the speaker's ignorance of or …
The Use of Bombast in Nigeria
This paper investigates the use of bombast in second-language (English) contexts as exemplified and parodied in the mass-media comedies Icheoku and Masquerade. It points out the prevalence of bombasters in Nigeria, identifies the general elements of bombast as an essential feature of nonstandard English, and identifies the expressive and perceptive dimensions of bombast. It argues that the use of bombast indicates the speaker's ignorance of or in…
Figurative Language in Translation
The interlingual translation of figurative expressions and idioms is a particularly sensitive task, especially in literary texts where the figurativeness of the language is an inalienable part of the text as a literary piece. Since modern thinking on translation favours fidelity to the source text, the translator is required to maintain – rather than improve, reduce or otherwise alter – the figurative texture of the source text in the target text…
Literary Usage in English as a Second Language in Nigeria
This paper studies the challenges involved in the nonlit-eral use of English in nonnative settings as exemplified and parodied in two Nigerian mass-media comedies, Icheoku and Masquerade . It draws attention, first to the nonstandardness observed in the use of English idiomatic expressions, tropes, maxims, and African proverbs, and second, to the problems involved in comprehending and interpreting the contextual imports of these metaphorical uses…
Rhetoric and Rivalry
Politics almost always entails opposition and rivalry as individuals and groups compete for power and influence. This essay juxtaposes the use of rhetoric among political rivals in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God with the use of such language among present-day Nigerian politicians. Parallels are drawn between the utterances of such characters as Ezeulu, Nwaka, and Ezidemili in Arrow of God and those of Nigerian political personalities like Olusegun …
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)