List of Interesting English and Literary Studies Project Ideas & Topics

English and Literary Studies Project Ideas & Topics

English and Literary Studies — We have developed a compelling list of interesting English and Literary Studies research project topics. These topics, when adequately executed, are guaranteed to get you a good grade in your final year project.

1. Use of Deixis in the 2015 Election Campaign Speeches of Muhammadu Buhari

2. Subversion of Patriarchal Binary Opposition in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple and Kate Chopin’s the Awakening

3. Blackness and Role Assignment in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon and Small Island

4. Econtextualizing Engagement: an Ecocritical Perspective on Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Tanure Ojaide’s Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel

5. A Critical Analysis of Igbo-Ọmaba Chants as Poetics of Culture in Lejja Town, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

6. Politeness forms and Hedging Strategies in English among Igbo Bilinguals

7. Ideational Meaning in the Change Agenda Manifesto of the All Progressive Congress of Nigeria

8. Apollonian/Dionysian Predicament in Albert Camus’ The Stranger

9. Existentialism in the novels of Bessie Head

10. The other mother in Jamaica Kincaid’s at the bottom of the river and Bessie Head’s maru

11. Representation of environment in selected Chinua Achebe’s novels

12. Dyadic representation of mythic structures in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

13. A contrastive study of Igbo and English affixation

14. The Positive Influence of the Language of Social Media on the English Language

15. A Stylistic Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s “The Beatification Of Area Boy” and “A Play Of Giants”

16. Status Struggle: Evaluation of the English Language and the Indigenous Languages in Nigeria

17. The Morpho-Semantic Implications of English Loan-Words from Africa

18. Politeness Strategies in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Editorials

19. The Representation of Persons with Disabilities in Selected African Fiction

20. Merger of Theme and Style in Chimamanda Adichie’s “Purple Hibiscus” and Zaynab Alkali’s “The Virtuous Woman”

21. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Urhobo Proverbs

22. The Tragic and the Supernatural in Elechi Amadi’s The Great Ponds and The Concubine

23. Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Political Campaign Speeches of Gubernatorial Candidates in South-Western Nigeria 2007-2014

24. A Contrastive Study of Derivation of Nouns from Verbs in English and Ibibio Languages

25. Semantic Study of Some Lexical Items in Nigerian English

26. An Error Analysis of the English Lexis and Structure of Students’ Waec Compsition: A Case Study of Government Secondary School, Kuru, Nasarawa State

27. Chinua Achebe’s Short Stories as a Periscope to Igbo Worldview

28. Linguistic Study of Selected Nigerian Children’s Poetry in Ossie Enekwe’s “Gentle Birds Come to Me” and Ikeogu Oke’s “Song of Success and other Poems for Children”

29. Narrating Racism: A Comparative Study Of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart Of Darkness” And Chimamanda Adichie’s “Americanah”

30. Character Formation In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Purple Hibiscus” and Kaine Agary’s “Yellow-Yellow”

31. The Use of ICT in the Teaching And Learning of Oral English in Secondary Schools in Nsukka Education Zone

32. Variation as a Tool of Aesthetics in Okposi, Ohafia, and Awka Oral Narratives

33. A Contrastive Analysis of English and TIV Sentence Structures

34. Causes of the Problems of English Inflectional Morphemes on the Written Language of Igbo Second Language Learners

35. Nature and Nurture in Selected Novels of Agary Kaine, Okpewho Isidore, and Abagha Anthony

36. Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Political Speeches of Nelson Mandela

37. History in the Works of Helon Habila: Waiting for an Angel, Measuring Time and Oil on Water

38. A Comparative Study of the Sociolinguistics of Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and Adichie’s “Half Of A Yellow Sun”

39. The Use of Creativity and Deviation in Nigerian English: Implications for International Intelligibility and Acceptability

40. Style and Language in Oral Literature: A Study of Tales from Igbere

41. Linguistic Features of Legal Language

42. Nigerians and Politeness Expression in the English Language: A Study of the Non-teaching Staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka

43. Comparative Study of Race and Gender in Selected Novels of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker

44. Self and Identity in African and Caribbean Literatures

45. Poetic Metaphor in Christopher Okigbo’s Labyrinths

46. Homosexuality in Jude Dibia’s Walking With Shadows and Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters

47. The Role of Literature in the English Language Teaching and Learning of Selected Secondary Schools

48. Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Proverbs in Ola Rotimi’s “The Gods Are Not To Blame”, “Kurunmi” and “Ovonramwen Nogbaisi”

49. Ecocritical Analysis of Tanure Ojaide’s “The Activist” and Kaine Agary’s “Yellow-Yellow”

50. Language and Power Relations in Selected Political Crisis Speeches in Nigeria, 1984 – 2013

51. Influence of Achebe’s Style in “Things Fall Apart” on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s “House Of Symbols”

52. Terror And Tragic Optimism as Sustaining Constructs in Camus’s The Plague And Soyinka’s Season Of Anomy

53. The Morpho-Semantic Implications of English Loan-Words from Africa

54. A Contrastive Study of the Politeness Strategies of English and Igbo Languages

55. A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Market Place Language in Enugu Metroplis

56. A Comparative Study of the Relationship of Spelling and Sound In English and Igbo Languages

57. Language Endangerment and Revitalization: Orokam Dialectal Situation

58. Literature and the Development of Language Skills among Users of English as a Second Language in Secondary Schools in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State

59. The Female Protagonist as Nation-Builder in Chinua Achebe’s

60. Text Processing Behaviour among Kogi State University Undergraduate Students

61. Influence of Nature and Nurture in Bessie Head’s A Woman Alone and the Cardinals

62. Rasicm in America and Apartheid South Africa: A Literary Discourse of Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Alex’ La Guma’s A Walk in the Night

63. The Use of ICT in The Teaching And Learning of Oral English in Secondary Schools in Nsukka Education Zone

64. The Discourse of Imposed Identity in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name and Richard Wright’s Native Son

65. Linguistic Features of Legal Language

66. Character Formation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

67. Narrating Racism: A Comparative Study of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

68. A Contrastive Study Of Noun Formation In English And Igbo Languages

69. An Error Analysis Of The English Lexis And Structure Of Students’ WAEC Composition: A Case Study Of Government Secondary School, Kuru, Nasarawa State

70. Enemies of their own: Female Characters in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and Rebeka Njau’s Ripples in the Pool

71. Homosexuality in Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows and Wole Soyinka’s the Interpreters

72. Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Political Campaign Speeches of Gubernatorial Candidates in South-Western Nigeria 2007-2014

73. The Tragic and the Supernatural in Elechi Amadi’s The Great Ponds and the Concubine

74. Semantic Study Of Some Lexical Items In Nigerian English

75. History In The Works Of Helon Habila: Waiting For An Angel, Measuring Time And Oil On Water

76. Style And Language In Oral Literature A Study Of Tales From Igbere

77. Linguistic Study of Selected Nigerian Children’S Poetry in Ossie Enekwe’s Gentle Birds Come To Me and Ikeogu Oke’s Song Of Success and Other Poems For Children

78. Nature and Nurture in Selected Novels of Agary kaine, Okpewho Isidore and Abagha Anthony

79. Variation as A Tool of Aesthetics in Okposi, Ohafia, and Awka Oral Narratives

80. Merger of Theme and Style in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus And Zaynab Alkali’s the Virtuous Woman

81. Nigeria English – A Realistic Variant or a Wild Goose Chase?

82. Trends in Recent Nigerian Poetry

83. From Ritual to Art: A Study of the Aesthetics and Cultural Relevance of Ihiala Satirical Songs

84. Syntactico-Cohesive Strategies in the Expository Writing of Freshmen Engineering Students of the University of Nigeria: A Deficiency Analysis

85. Restrictions on the English Verb and Implications for English as Second Language (ESL) Users