UDABA, R. O. (2019) A Linguistic Comparison of Pauperism in African and Non-African Setting: A Study of Richard Ntiru’s ‘The Pauper’ and Crabbe’s ‘The Pauper’s Funeral’. Thinkers Journal of the Faculty of Art Gouni, 1 (1). pp. 102-112.
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This paper made a linguistic comparison of pauperism in both African and Non-African settings using two selected poems which are George Crabbe’s ‘The Pauper’s Funeral’ and Richard Ntiru’s ‘The Pauper’. Ntiru is a Ugandan poet who makes his readers have an idea of the concept of pauperism in the African setting while Crabbe, a 17th century English poet gives an account of paupersm in his cultural set up. Pauperism is and remains a regular phenomenon in societies, especially in a capitalist set up where there is wide gap in the social strata. This study is based on Chomskyan theory of transformational generative grammar which uses linguistic tools of graphology, phonology, syntax and lexico-semantics as its parameters for analysis. The purpose of this paper is to compare linguistically the attitudes of the two societies to the plight of this class of people. The finding is that both African and non – African societies are indifferent to their plight and consequently deplore them. Based on this finding, both the government and wealthy individuals in such societies should have a rethink and set up a machinery, to cater for their needs. Key words: Pauperism, linguistic levels, machinery, phonology, African societies.
| 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: | 26 Sep 2019 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 10:13 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2137 |
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