UDABA, R. O. (2019) A COMPARATIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL NUANCES IN RICHARD CORBET’S POEM ‘TO MY SON’ AND WOLE SOYINKA’S POEM ‘DEDICATION’. Thinkers Journal Faculty of Arts Gouni, 1 (2019). pp. 105-114.
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Abstract
Richard Corbet was a 17th century English poet, while Wole Soyinka is a 20th century poet. Although their periods of writing give a considerable gap, the themes are common to both; that is the protective, guiding love of a father for his child. Both propose niceties for their children from a very tender age, but because their cultural backgrounds differ, each tries to stress areas of importance and how he wishes his child to be successful in life. These both do , with cultural nuances. These cultural undertones are identified through the linguistic choices made in the two poems. This is the power of language in literature. This study was organized, using the provision of the theory of Chomsky’s Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG), which views language use from graphological, phonological, syntactic, and lexico-semantic levels. This approach is combined with the provisions of Beaugrande’s text linguistics. This eclectic method, results in the employment of Carter’s model of analysis of Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain’. This model first interprets the text before proceeding to analyse the text’s linguistic components. With this, a holistic study of the poems is assured.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2019 21:21 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 11:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2135 |
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