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Open AccessPublished: 3 September 2026

Styles and Nigerian Socio-Political Challenges in Selected Poems of Niyi Osundare

Oluwafemi Bolanle Jolaoso, Saheed Olalekan Olayiwola

Linguistic Exploration · 37-54 · 10.55121/le.v3i2.102447

This study presented a stylistic analysis of Niyi Osundare’s A Villager’s Protest to investigate the social-political challenges facing Nigeria. Through a close examination of the poem’s linguistic, literary and thematic features, the paper accounts for how the poet critiques the country’s hollow political promises, corruption a

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Open AccessPublished: 17 August 2026

Visualizing Culture-Specific Terms: Multimodal Paratexts in the French Translation of Things Fall Apart

Jeremiah Felix Nwachukwu, Ethel Kalanne Jaja

Linguistic Exploration · 21–36 · 10.55121/le.v3i2.102394

Culture-specific terms in literary translation pose challenges because their meanings extend beyond language into material form, ritual practice, sound, gesture, and symbolic associations. In translated texts, explanatory footnotes are often concise and verbal, risking semantic reduction when culturally dense concepts are compre

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Open AccessPublished: 16 July 2026

Cultural Conceptualizations in Nigerian Students’ Sign-Out Discourses

Adaobi Ngozi Okoye, Peter Oyewole Makinde

Linguistic Exploration · 1–20 · 10.55121/le.v3i2.102315

Across higher institutions of learning in Nigeria the sign-out practice has become an active custom marking students’ transition from undergraduate life to the wider world. This emerging youth practice is often characterized by flamboyant displays of fashion, style and affluence and carefully curated social media posts blend the

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Open AccessPublished: 24 April 2026

A Comparative Analysis of the Figurative Language in Arabic and South African Languages

Entisar Khalifa Aljoundi

Linguistic Exploration · 147–165 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.967

Arabic and South African languages contain rich idiomatic expressions, many of which are based on body-related metaphors that play an important role in everyday communication. This study compares body-part idioms in Arabic and South African to examine how physical body concepts are used to express abstract meanings. Most previou

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Open AccessPublished: 23 April 2026

On the Dual Nature of Sem-Phrases in Hungarian: Negative Quantifiers or Negative Indefinites?

Gréte Dalmi

Linguistic Exploration · 132–146 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.1214

Sem-phrases in Hungarian are negative indefinites accompanied by the negative emphatic particle sem ‘neither’. Preverbal sem-phrases differ from postverbal ones in that the former behave as negative quantifiers (NQs), while the latter resemble s-words, which are negative concord items (NCIs) like senki ‘nobody’. By adopting Ladu

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Open AccessPublished: 22 April 2026

Linguistic Geoengineering: A New Paradigm for Discursive Infrastructure and Public Persuasion

Dominic Bryan San Jose

Linguistic Exploration · 115–131 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.1219

This theoretical paper (1) defines linguistic geoengineering as a theoretical framework, (2) distinguishes its unique characteristics from established theories of language and power, and (3) analyzes its implications for public persuasion and democratic engagement. Linguistic geoengineering, a novel framework for analyzing langu

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Open AccessPublished: 10 April 2026

A Metalinguistic Judgmental Analysis of Pakistani English Phonology by Odki Native Speakers

Abdul Basit Bughio, Abdul Malik Abbasi

Linguistic Exploration · 103–114 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.1109

The study aims to explore the metalinguistic judgments of English syllable structures and lexical stress patterns perceived by Odki English as a Second Language (ESL) adult learners. The paper lays emphasis on phonological adjustments in Pakistan English spoken by the native Odki speakers and especially in their word stress and

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Open AccessPublished: 29 March 2026

Humor Construction through Metaphor in a Stand-Up Comedy under Conceptual Blending Theory: A Case Study of The King of Comedy

Lian Liu, Hui Chen, Honggang Liu

Linguistic Exploration · 86–102 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.1194

Humor is essential in daily life and as linguistic research advances, its mechanisms have attracted increasing scholarly attention. Metaphor as a fundamental way humans conceptualize the world plays a key role in constructing humor. And stand-up comedy, combining verbal artistry with social critique, offers rich naturalistic dat

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Open AccessPublished: 27 March 2026

From Dal’s Dictionary to Miyazaki’s Screen: A Comparative Analysis of Somatic Metaphors in Russian and Japanese Paremiology

Aida R. Nurutdinova

Linguistic Exploration · 59–85 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.1202

This study investigates cultural identity formation through comparative analysis of somatic metaphors in Russian and Japanese proverbs and their transformation in animated film. Drawing on 347 Russian proverbs from Vladimir Dal's dictionary and 298 Japanese proverbs from the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, the research examines how bodil

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Open AccessPublished: 20 March 2026

What Clinicians Should Listen for in the Speech of Latino Families: Communicative Concordance

Otto Santa Ana, Evelyn Aldapa, Clarissa Cisneros, Ashley Corral, Evelyn Quintero, Tniztney Reyes, Gabriela Robles

Linguistic Exploration · 41–58 · 10.55121/le.v3i1.787

Language is a critical consideration for practitioners working with Latino children and their families. These families display a wide range of linguistic backgrounds—from recent immigrants with limited English proficiency, to extended families who speak only Spanish, to bilingual households, to those who primarily speak non-stan

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