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Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics

Author: Keith Johnson

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG341

Topics: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics, sound sensations, sound propagation, acoustic filters, voicing, speech acoustic theory, voicing quanta, vocal tract filtering, Pendulums, Standing Waves, Vowel Formants, Digital Signal Processing, continuous signals, discrete signals, Analog-to-Digital Conversion, signal analysis methods, Peripheral Auditory System anatomy, loudness auditory sensation, auditory system frequency response, Auditory Representations, speech perception, Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception, Phonetic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception, Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception, speech Perceptual Similarity, speech analysis, vowels, vowel production tube models, vowels Perturbation Theory, vowel formants, acoustic vowel space, Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception, fricatives, turbulence, Fricative Auditory Spectra, fricative perception, vocal tract filter functions, affricates, stops, affricate, bandwidth, nasal stops, laterals, Nasalization, Nasal Consonant Perception

Introduction to Semantics

Author: Charles Ogbulogo

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG331

Topics: Semantics, theories, of meaning, nature of the lexicon, Sentential Meaning aspects, pragmatics, logic, fallacies, Application of Semantics to Literary Communication, Transitional Semantics, Behavioral Semantics, Structural Semantics, Generative Semantics, synonym, antonym, hyponym, homonym, polysemy, Subcategorising English Words, Paraphrase, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Tautology, Presupposition, Entailment, Analyticity, Misinterpretation Fallacies, Misunderstanding of Language fallacies, Fallacies of Accident, Question Begging Fallacies, complex question, False Causal Relationship, irrelevant conclusion, Argumentative Leap, Simple Proposition, Conjunction, Disjunction

Contemporary English usage

Author: Anthony Oha

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG321

Topics: Contemporary English usage, English Language, British English Varieties, American English Structure, Australian English Varieties, New Zealand English Varieties, Contemporary Nigerian English, popular Nigerian English, Contemporary English Writing, English speech form, Formal English language style, informal English style, Linguistic Meaning, Speaker Meaning, Business English, Business Writing, Internet English, Web Writing, Old English, modern English

Communication for Business

Author: Michael Okenimkpe

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG316

Topics: Business communication, business letter, business report, business meetings minutes, communication, Modern Business Communication technology, Effective Communication barriers

The Dynamics of Persuasion Communication and Attitudes in the 21st Century

Author: Richard Perloff

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG314

Topics: Persuasion Communication, attitudes, attitude measurement, Processing Persuasive Communications, emotional message appeals, Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Interpersonal Persuasion, Advertising, Marketing, Persuasion, Health Communication Campaigns

Public Speaking

Author: Theodore Iyere

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG314

Topics: Public Speaking, persuasion, persuasion theories, audience analysis, selecting a topic, Persuasion techniques, persuasive speeches, hearing listening, types of listening, Effective Listening, Relationship Based Persuasion, Persuasive Communication, Verbal Messages, Social Judgment-Involvement Theory, Mass Media Effect Theories, Oral Tradition, public speaking ethics, speaker ethics, listener ethics, Inefficient Listening, Homogeneous Audiences, Heterogeneous Audiences

Public Speaking An Audience

Author: Steven Beebe, Susan Beebe

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG314

Topics: Public Speaking, speaking with confidence, speaking freely, speaking ethically, listening to speeches, audience analysis, speech development, organizing speech, outlining speech, introducing speech, concluding speech, delivering speech, speaking to inform

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Author: William Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG313

Topics: African American Literature

Black diaspora literature 1

Author: Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo, Remi Akujobi

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG313

Topics: Black diaspora literature, African American Literature, African American Literature themes, African American Literature characteristics, oral tradition, Early African American Literature, Post-slavery Era, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, Black Art, Black Power Era, Female, Feminist Writings, Twenty-first Century African American Literature

Atlas of African

Author: James Ciment

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG313

Topics: African-American History Atlas, African Heritage, slavery, divided nations, Civil Rights Years, Backlash, Retrenchment, Black America Today

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