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Introduction : Folktales, myths, and legends are special modes of oral literature for transmission of culture, norms and values of society. In this paper, it will be of prime importance to explain briefly their conceptual meanings, and then expound their significance in helping to revive our nation from social moral decadence. Folktales : The folktale, strictly defined, is a short narrative in prose of unknown authorship which has been transmitted orally; many of these tales eventually achieve written form. The term, however, is often extended to include stories invented by a known author—such as “The Three Bears” by Robert Southey (1774–1843) and Parson Mason L. Weems’ story of George Washington and the cherry tree —which have been picked up and repeatedly narrated by word of mouth as well as in written form. Folktales are found among peoples everywhere in the world. They include myths, fables, tales of heroes and fairy tales.  Another type of folk tale, the set “joke”—that is, th...

05, 2019 A Paper Presented by Fortune Nwaiwu in the Department of English and Communication Arts, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State of Nigeria. Abstracts Many scholars claim that pidgin is a language of its own with community of speakers who pass it on from one generation to another (Hudson 2001:p.62), but this paper examines pidgins from the historical perspectives and presents a stunning fact about the linguistic status of pidgins as corrupted variety of English. With the influx of words from their lexifier language into their substrate variety, pidgins are then seen as debased and corrupted variety of the prestige language. This claim is supported by Krapp (1924) and Kurath (1928) and is validated with the imperfect second language learning hypothesis which states  that pidgins are the result of failed attempts at learning the prestige language, (see Brown and Attardo 2009:p.126). This paper is very significant in the sense that it sheds more light in the unde...

Cohesion and Coherence: A Study of two texts, One with Cohesive Markers while the other lacking Cohesive Markers. A paper presented by Fortune N. (2019). Introduction This paper seeks to analyse two texts finding out a text with cohesive markers and a text lacking cohesive markers. A text in linguistics, is any spoken or written discourse that forms a unified whole, which may be a sentence, a paragraph, or a dialogue. A text is not a grammatical unit, but rather a semantic unit of language, i.e. a unit of meaning, not of form, (Bahaziq, 2016:p112). Texture is what provides the text with unity and distinguishes it from a non-text. Therefore, it is the cohesive relation that exists between units of a text.  This paper explores cohesion and coherence with their instances to enable readers glance on how words structurally and semantically hang together to create a coherent text. We have analysed an excerpt from the opening chapter of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to find out t...