A Professor of Stylistics and English Pedagogy in the Department of English and Communication Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Prof Daniel Ndubuisi Ogum says everything in human existence and activities are stylistically synergised with factor of time and space.
Professor Ogum stated this while delivering his inaugural lecture at the 9th inaugural lecture of the institution held at the university’s auditorium, last Tuesday.
He postulated that approaching human existence and activities from the perspective of the relationship with sign, style and space would be an easy way to solving the myriads of human problems and challenges in the society.
The Professor of Stylistics and English Pedagogy whose lecture centred on humanity in the externalised synergy of sign, space and styles: Advances and Thoughts, stated that change was the product of the degree of the manipulation of stylistic variables in sub-spaces of human endeavour.
According to him, a significant advancement in English Language teaching was a function of improvement in pedagogical stylistics, adding that the significance of stylistics varies within the sub-space.
He averred that the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries was as a result of the disparity in research, investments and proper utilisation of research outcomes.
“It is also the result of the unnecessary compartmentalisation of the knowledge sub-space of the human space” and called for reposition through the externalised synergy of significant sign in the human space and effective style.
The lecture presentation covered introduction, basic assumptions, conceptual analysis, style and stylistics fields of stylistics. Also covered in the lecture include the externalised synergy of sign space and style, contributions: My thoughts and Advances, Beyond the present. My Future Plan, Language and Capacity Development Centre (LACDEC).
Earlier in his speech, the Vice Chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE), Prof Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele lauded the lecturer of his scholarstical presentation adding that he was overwhelmed by the turn out of the guests that witnessed the programme.
Ndimele used the opportunity to call on the development of indigenous languages in the country adding that language rules education.
He further decried the alarming rate for which local languages were going into extinction and added that if urgent steps were not taken to address it the situation, he said may lead to the extinction of ethnic identities across the country.

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