TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Implications of Functionalist Linguistics for Language Varieties: Instances of English Speeches from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Hard Times – Michael Thomas Abah – 1
- An Overview of Culture and Conflict in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus – Marian Abla Ero-Phillips – 23
- Women Autobiographical Writing and the Alternate Self: Buchi Emecheta’s Head Above Water – Ibiene Evelyn Iboroma – 43
- Evocation of Culinary Imagery in Some Yoruba-Nigerian Proverbs – Olaide Olapade – 61
- Ideologies in Proverbs on Security Consciousness in Selected Nollywood Movies – Adesina B. Sunday & Matthew O. Ilori – 80