يتناول هذا البحث دراسة الخصائص البيانية في الخطب المنبرية في الديار النيجيرية، متخذًا من خطب البروفيسور شيخو أحمد سعيد غلادنثي نموذجًا تطبيقيًا. فيهدف إلى الكشف عن السمات اللغوية والبلاغية التي ميّزت خطابه المنبري، وأسهمت في تحقيق التأثير الوعظي والإصلاحي في المجتمع النيجيري. وقد اعتمد البحث على المنهج الوصفي في عرض السيرة العلمية للخطيب، والمنهج التحليلي البلاغي في دراسة نماذج مختارة من خطبه، مع التركيز على سلامة اللغة، والبناء الفني للخطبة، وتوظيف النَّص القرآني والنبوي، وأساليب الترغيب والترهيب، والتفاعل مع الجمهور، وربط الخطاب الديني بالواقع الاجتماعي. وتوصل البحث إلى أن خطب البروفيسور غلادنثي تمثل نموذجًا متميزًا للخطابة المنبرية المعاصرة، لما تتسم بها من فصاحة لغوية، وعمق بلاغي، ووعي اجتماعي، مما جعلها أداة فعَّالة في التوجيه والإصلاح، وأسهم في ترسيخ مكانة اللغة العربية والخطاب الديني في المجتمع النيجيري.
This paper explores the ‘Hausa Metalanguage Terms’ and accounts for the use of affixation as one of the terms' formation processes within the framework of descriptive linguistics – the linguistic ideology that prioritizes the systematic description of the languages of the world in their diversity based on empirical observation of regular patterns in natural speech. The paper provides detailed analyses evidential to the substantial use of a wide range of affixal operations in coining some of the metalanguage’s constituent terms. Prior to that, some conceptual clarifications and theoretical postulations underscoring the paper’s major gist are first addressed. Subsequently, the terms in focus are categorized, exemplified, and described based on the different affixational sub-processes involved in their formation. By providing both conceptual/theoretical background and practical examples, the paper demonstrates how affixation functioned as one of the key morphological processes discovered to have been involved in the creation of some of the investigated terms, thus highlights among other implications that such affixation-driven terms have the potentials of modeling future terminology formation and development endeavours in the Hausa language.
Maƙasudin wannan takarda shi ne a aiwatar da nazarin gamayyar tsarin sauti da ginin jumla kan yadda yara ke amfani da wasu sassan lokutan Hausa (zagin aikatau, manunin lokaci da aikatau) a matakin bunƙasar harshe. Duk da yake an gudanar da bincike daban-daban kan bunƙasar harshen yara na Hausa, har yanzu akwai ƙarancin nazarin da ke nuna gamayyar tsarin sauti da na ginin jumla. Domin cike wannan gurbin ne, takardar ta yi amfani da ra’o'i guda biyu; wato ra’in ginantaka (constructive theory) da ra’in taciya da tsirau (transformational generative theory) wajen bayyana gamayyar. Ta fuskar hanyoyin gudanar da bincike, an yi amfani da nau'in bincike bi-keɓantaka (case study research design) inda aka zaɓo yara goma sha biyu (12) 'yan shekara 2-5. Haka kuma, ta fuskar tattara bayanai, an yi amfani da hanyar lura da ta tattaunawa a lokuta daban-daban. Daga bisani, sai aka yi amfani da fiɗar maƙunsar-batu (content analysis) aka ƙalailaice bayanan da aka tattara. Sakamakon takardar ya nuna tasirin tsarin sauti yana haifar da sauye-sauyen amfani da lokutan Hausa a jumlolin su yaran ta fuskar musanya sauti (misali, taci maimakon tashi); nannage (misali, Na na, jin yunwa maimakon Ba na jin yunwa); shafewa (misali, i mun waca maimakon yi mun wasa), naso (misali, kak ki zuba maimakon kar ki zuba), da kuma gamayyar waɗannan sauye-sauye. Haka kuma, takardar ta gano sauye-sauyen na wanzuwa ne a matsayin siffofi na halitta da ke sauƙaƙa furucin yara yayin bunƙasa tare da naƙaltar harshe.
During Nigeria’s 2024 #EndBadGovernance Campaigns, public discourse fractured into deeply competing narratives. On one side, citizens used protests to frame severe economic hardship as structural government failure. On the other, the state cast these identical pressures as unavoidable reforms necessary for national recovery. This study investigates the linguistic mechanics behind this divide. Adopting a qualitative comparative design, the study applies Fillmore’s (1982) Semantic Frame Theory to twenty purposively selected data from protest placards, activist tracks, media interviews, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s address to the nation. The data show a stark divergence. Anti-government actors consistently activated frames of economic suffering, accountability, and collective resistance. Meanwhile, state actors anchored their rhetoric in themes of economic rebirth, national unity, and shared sacrifice. These findings illuminate how deliberate lexical choices alter public perception of a single socio-political crisis. By uncovering these hidden linguistic structures, the study confirms the utility of semantic framing analysis in explaining how political actors weaponized language to shape reality, extending the literature on Nigerian protest linguistics.
This study investigated the use of reporting verbs indicating distal, proximal, and neutral evaluative stances of Nigerian authors in their journal articles selected for analysis, using Thompson and Yiyun (1991). The framework was used to examine how writers employ reporting verbs in literature review sections to construct stance and position themselves in relation to prior research. A qualitative discourse-analytical approach was used to identify reporting verbs in the selected academic texts. The findings reveal a dominance of neutral stance verbs, which emphasize methodological description and objectivity. Elements of proximal stance verbs are also frequently used to express strong alignment with previous studies and present findings as credible. In contrast, distal stance verbs, which are used to express caution and epistemic distance, occur less frequently. The findings conform to the selected framework’s explanation that reporting verbs function as strategic resources for stance construction in academic discourse. The findings also show that Nigerian authors/writers have little awareness of how reporting verbs are appropriately used in discoursal context. Therefore, the study concludes that Nigerian writers primarily alternate between neutral and proximal stances, with limited use of distal stance verbs, which indicates writer argument is weak. Furthermore, this analysis recommends further studies to investigate how Nigerian writers use Hyland’s (1992) classifications in their journal articles.
