UDABA, R. O. A LINGUISTIC APPRECIATION OF SELECTED AFRICAN LITERARY WORKS: A STUDY OF THEO LUZAKA’S ‘THE MOTOKA’ AND KWES1 BREW’S ‘THE DRY SEASON’. Journal of Faculty of Education Godfrey Okoye University, 2.
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Abstract
The linguistic study of the two poems, ‘The Motoka’ and The ‘Dry Season’, draws the attention of the reader to the complementary approach to literary criticism, which had hitherto been brushed aside or even glossed over. This approach was anchored on the theoretical assertions of the essence and the importance of linguistics in the study of literary works. The Saussurean structural linguistic theory broadened by the Chomskyan Transformational Generative theory approach, favours the use of levels of linguistic analysis which were adopted in the examination of these poems. These levels namely graphology, phonology, syntax or grammar and lexicosemantics were used to aptly capture all aspects of language use in literary domain. This paper described the language as used in these poems and their significance in these works. Since language is the vehicle which carries the writer’s message to his audience, it is therefore crucial that the language of the work must he understood.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2019 20:47 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2019 09:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2133 |
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