LAWAL OLUWATOBILOBA QUDUS

Linguistics, African Languages and Communication Arts

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Topic: Yoruba Literature, Culture And Communication Arts

Description: My research interests cut across Yoruba literature, culture, and communication arts. I have assessed how Yoruba literature, particularly drama and film, problematizes contemporary issues in an effort to address these challenges for the sustainable development of society, with a particular focus on conflict resolution. Additionally, I am concerned with the significance of Yoruba cultural paraphernalia in addressing societal malaises and abnormalities. Communication is sine-qua-non to language, culture, and literature; hence, I am currently exploring the forms and functions of the non-verbal Yoruba indigenous communication system in films.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	M.A. (Yoruba Literature and Culture)	Lagos State University	2023

Discourse Issues in Tunde Kelani s Agogo Eewo: A Multimodal Analysis

Studies have investigated Tunde Kelani's Agogo Eewo from the political, literary and sociolinguistic perspectives, but the exploration of the discourse issues embedded in the movie has not been teased out through the instrumentality of semiotic resources. This paper, therefore, sets out to investigate how semiotic resources are deployed to demonstrate how non-linguistic elements contribute to the portrayal of inherent issues in Agogo Eewo. Twelve purposively extracted plates were analyzed using Kress and van Leuween s social semiotic approach to multimodality. The narrative and conceptual representational meanings of visual grammar are used to reveal a multimodal portrayal of political decadence, social vices and cultural elucidation. The political decadence is shown through bribery and extrajudicial killing and the social vices are revealed by means of immorality through sexual innuendo, deployment of youth for vandalism and self-aggrandizement. Cultural elucidation shows how actions and objects project societal beliefs and values. Gaze, gesture, props, demonstration, salience and vector are some of the semiotic resources used in meaning realization in the movie. The study concludes that there is a synergy in the use of semiotic resources and thematic preoccupations in Tunde Kelani's Agogo Eewo . Keywords: Agogo Eewo, Multimodal Analysis, Nigerian movies, Semiotic cues, Tunde Kelani

LAWAL QUDUS is a Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, African Languages and Communication Arts

LAWAL has a M.A. in Yoruba Literature and Culture from Lagos State University