Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics and Digital Humanities [electronic resource] : A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Eno-Abasi Essien Urua / edited by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong, Imelda Icheji Udoh.

Language, Proverbs, Power and Male Chauvinism in Anaang Society -- A Morphological Description of Proverbial Ígálà Personal Names -- Linguistic Colonialism and Its Implications on Indigenous Languages in Nigeria -- Americanization Of English In Nigerian Broadcasting: A Sociophonetic Insight into Traditional News Broadcast Vs. Entertainment News Broadcast -- The Concept of Listening -- Syntax of Agreement in Ekid -- Religious Rhetoric and Church Development in Rural Nigeria -- A Contrastive Analysis of The Verbal Group Structures of English And Urhobo -- Inherent Complement Verbs in Ibibio -- A Phonological Description of Ibibio Individual Name -- Significance of The Ibibio Indigenous Songs in The Ibibio Cultural Heritage -- Bridging Language Gap, Promoting Deaf Literacy in Nigeria Through Indigenous Sign Languages -- Syntactic Analysis of Non-Basic Constructions In Ékᴉd Ibibio Speech Rhythm: Two Phonetic Paradigms -- An Epigraphy of Igbo Inscriptions on Tricycles in Aba -- The Nativisation Of English Language in Chimamanda Adichie's Collection of Short Stories, The Thing Around Your Neck -- Level-Ordered Morphology in Bētē Simple Nouns -- A Morpho-Phonological Investigation of The Derivation of Izọ᷾N Numerals -- Oral Tradition and Literature: A Conceptual Analysis of Itu Mbon Uso Folktales -- Requesting Strategies in Nigerian And British English: A Corpus-Based Approach -- Polar Interrogative Strategies in Obolo -- Teachers' Motivational Impacts on Second Language (L2) Learners' Goal Attainment: The Eno-Abasi Urua Model -- The Language Factor in Information Dissemination for Development -- Language, Culture, and Identity: The Nigerian Situation Communication for Social Mobilization in Selected Mamser Campaign Speeches -- Body Parts as Grammatical Markers in Fulfulde: The Case of Prepositions.

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating discussions around a universe of discourse, sufficient to engender cross-border interactions within the African context, this book shall break a dichotomy of challenges on adaptive processes required to unify resources to assist the development of modern solutions for the African domain. .