http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1164 2026-04-16T04:44:07Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/937 Title: Fighting War With Words: A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Dasylva's Songs of Odamolugbe Authors: Inya, Blessing Titilayo Abstract: In the wake of post-colonialism and the resultant neo-colonialism in some African countries, some wars are not fought with guns but words; one of these is war against corruption: corrupt leaders and corrupt practices. Some of these warriors are journalists, writers, poets, etc. one of whom is Ademola Dasylva in Songs of Odamulogbe. Songs of Odamulogbe is a collection of poems that is preoccupied with combating corrupt leaders and corrupt practices, and inciting other compatriots to arise to the challenges facing the poet’s country, Nigeria. There have been both literary and linguistic-based studies on Ademola Dasylva’s Songs of Odamolugbe; but worthy of note is Dasylva’s use of language, particularly, lexico-semantic features embedded in the text. However, no attention has been paid to this aspect of language use in the text. Therefore, drawing on the resources of Systemic Functional Grammar, this study attempts a lexico-semantic analysis of select poems in Dasylva’s Songs of Odamolugbe. The poems are selected based on their political themes. The lexicosemantic features are identified and discussed. The study reveals that language use in the text is not arbitrary; rather, it is for specific purposes like correcting, criticizing, inciting, eulogising in nostalgia a once good country etc. Description: the chapter is a study on lexico-semantics of a Nigerian poetry. 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/144 Title: Humanities — To Be or Not To Be, That Is the Question Authors: Albrecht Classen Abstract: Let us carry some proverbial owls to Athens or coals to Newcastle, that is, revisit issues that have been discussed and examined by so many different voices in the past and the present. However, those issues by themselves are so powerful and important, so urgent and difficult that we must never tire of examining them always anew because they pertain centrally to our own human existence and prove to be the defining factors for our survival as a species. Why do we need the humanities as an academic discipline in the university, or in our educational system at large? What role do the humanities play both inside and outside the academy? Most universities in this world somehow acknowledge the importance of languages, literatures, music, art history, philosophy, religion, and education. But when it comes to basic financial issues, the humanities tend to be the first victims of budget cuts, if we disregard specifically liberal arts colleges that focus on the humanities above all or exclusively. Description: Let us carry some proverbial owls to Athens or coals to Newcastle, that is, revisit issues that have been discussed and examined by so many different voices in the past and the present. However, those issues by themselves are so powerful and important, so urgent and difficult that we must never tire of examining them always anew because they pertain centrally to our own human existence and prove to be the defining factors for our survival as a species. Why do we need the humanities as an academic discipline in the university, or in our educational system at large? What role do the humanities play both inside and outside the academy? Most universities in this world somehow acknowledge the importance of languages, literatures, music, art history, philosophy, religion, and education. But when it comes to basic financial issues, the humanities tend to be the first victims of budget cuts, if we disregard specifically liberal arts colleges that focus on the humanities above all or exclusively. 2011-09-16T00:00:00Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/137 Title: Translation as the Catalyst of Cultural Transfer Authors: Albrecht Classen Abstract: This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation, which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations have had on peoples and societies throughout time Description: This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation, which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations have had on peoples and societies throughout time 2012-03-30T00:00:00Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/136 Title: Human Actions Illustrated in Zen’s Ox-Herding Pictures Authors: Yong Zhi Abstract: The enlightenment from Zen’s perspective is the experiences of action that reveal a horizon of new consciousness. This event of enlightenment is the process of action rather than the outcome of action. Therefore, actions are not just the means to enlightenment but the very core of it. The actions of enlightenment from Zen’s perspective cannot be adequately described and explained in logical terms. Unlike most other Buddhist schools, Zen does not engage in extensive philosophical discourses; its classical literatures are mostly artistic in nature, consisting of collections of koans, poetry, and paintings, etc. The ten ox-herding pictures of Zen Buddhism are recognized as the classical illustration of Zen’s spiritual journey, as it vividly depicts the practice of Zen in a poetic and metaphorical way. They present a visual parable of the path to enlightenment in a narrative sequence of a boy’s searching, seeing, wrestling, riding, and transcending of the ox. Description: The enlightenment from Zen’s perspective is the experiences of action that reveal a horizon of new consciousness. This event of enlightenment is the process of action rather than the outcome of action. Therefore, actions are not just the means to enlightenment but the very core of it. The actions of enlightenment from Zen’s perspective cannot be adequately described and explained in logical terms. Unlike most other Buddhist schools, Zen does not engage in extensive philosophical discourses; its classical literatures are mostly artistic in nature, consisting of collections of koans, poetry, and paintings, etc. The ten ox-herding pictures of Zen Buddhism are recognized as the classical illustration of Zen’s spiritual journey, as it vividly depicts the practice of Zen in a poetic and metaphorical way. They present a visual parable of the path to enlightenment in a narrative sequence of a boy’s searching, seeing, wrestling, riding, and transcending of the ox. 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/134 Title: Interaction between Media and Ethics Authors: Leila keyanpour Abstract: Among the key issues that in recent decades the researchers have focused on is the relationship between ethics and media and interaction between them. Nowadays, interaction between these two realities, two texts, two institutions, and both cultural and technological elements has occupied the mind of the researchers. The confluence of these two different perspectives of sociology, sociology of knowledge, communication, ethics, and culture has been discussed and contemplated. Through the interaction of the ethics and media, two high frequency hybrid concept "media ethics" and "ethical media” have emerged. These new concepts will influence the future. Description: Among the key issues that in recent decades the researchers have focused on is the relationship between ethics and media and interaction between them. Nowadays, interaction between these two realities, two texts, two institutions, and both cultural and technological elements has occupied the mind of the researchers. The confluence of these two different perspectives of sociology, sociology of knowledge, communication, ethics, and culture has been discussed and contemplated. Through the interaction of the ethics and media, two high frequency hybrid concept "media ethics" and "ethical media” have emerged. These new concepts will influence the future. 2012-11-04T00:00:00Z http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/131 Title: Making Nothing Happen: Yeats, Heidegger, Pessoa, and the Emergence of Post-Romanticism Authors: James Corby Abstract: Through close readings of the work of two major poets of the twentieth century—W.B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa—this paper identifies and attempts to make sense of an important shift in European modernism away from a broadly Romantic aesthetic toward what might be called “post-Romanticism.” Taking its cue from W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” where having stated that “poetry makes nothing happen” he asserts that it survives as “a way of happening,” and drawing on the philosophy of Heidegger and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper argues that this shift from Romanticism to post-Romanticism hinges on a deep metaphysical reconceptualization of poetry understood as poiesis. In light of this reassessment of the aesthetics and philosophical affinities of poetic modernism, it is argued that post-Romanticism should be understood as offering a modest, salutary, phenomenological re-acquaintance with our involvement with the everyday world, in sharp contrast to the transcendental ambitions of the Romantic aesthetic that preceded it. 2012-08-19T00:00:00Z