Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah
List of John Benjamins publications in which Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah is involved.
Articles
2024 ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’: The sociocultural context of verbal irony in Nigeria Pragmatics 34:2, pp. 215–237 | Article
This study seeks to characterise the form of verbal irony common among Nigerians by identifying its motivation, inherent properties, and communicative value. Data for this study comprised detailed field notes taken within the last five years in contexts in which utterances occurred naturally.… read more
2013 Re-reading August Wilson’s Fences: The influence of the Black Aesthetic and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart English Text Construction 6:2, pp. 213–237 | Article
August Wilson’s Fences is perhaps the most controversial in his ten-play chronicle of the African American experience in the 20th century. The play’s conflict centres on Troy’s alleged highhandedness against his son and his extra-marital affair. The morality behind these issues has been the… read more