35 if I may get back to my stage. On the stage of Christendom, in seeking guidance to these profound problems of personal and national life which I mentioned so briefly, the people traditionally put at the centre of their stage, the man of God, the preacher in his pulpit. Even if both preacher and audience failed hopelessly down the centuries to live up to the message that was preached, nonethe...

Objectives: To examine goal process cognition as a mediator of the relationship between self-determined motivational ratings and strenuous exercise participation. Design: Cross-Sectional Survey. Methods: University students (N 1⁄4 535) identified their most important exercise goal and rated this goal according to the nine goal process dimensions of the Goal Systems Assessment Battery (GSAB; [Ka...

The paper examines tenor in electronic media discourse in Nigeria. Tenor is one of the register variables identified by Systemic linguistics. The paper looks at how preachers use their social role to relate with their audience in such media discourses as radio, television and the Internet. The preacher is usually the dominant speaker so he determines how his imaginary audience will respond to h...