{"title":"A Critical-Stylistic Study Of Mind Style And Characterisation In Buchi Emecheta’s \"The Joys Of Motherhood\"","authors":"A. Adetunji","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65456","url":null,"abstract":"Although much research has gone into Buchi Emecheta’s literary art, hardly has any statements being made about the situation of mind style in her works. This study, however, considers the critical –stylistic value of mind style in the characterisation of Nnu Ego in Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood. It reveals the author’s deployment of emotive lexis, figurative language, and conversation to depict Nnu Ego’s world of naiveties, selfcontradictions, failures, and frustrations, all adding up to the character’s odd conceptualisation of reality. I claim that Nnu Ego’s portrayal, has, additionally, been used to interrogate feminist, colonial, and classist issues, albeit on a relatively small scale. Keywords : mind style, stylistics, lexicalisation, feminism, colonialism, Buchi Emecheta","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115620135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Setswana sports terms: a genre analysis","authors":"Thapelo J Otlogetswe","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42819","url":null,"abstract":"Genre studies in Setswana are rare, particularly those which study genre on the basis of lexical distinctiveness. Such studies have however been attempted in other languages (cf. Stamatatos et al., 2000; Xiao and McEnery, 2005). The paper proposes a genre analysis of the sports domain of Setswana. It implements a computational and statistical methodology of retrieving sports terms from a Setswana sub-corpus of a large Setswana corpus. The proposed approach is preferred since it is unbiased and measures real language as used by speakers of the language. It uses frequency and keyword analysis to generate words which are typical and definitive of the sports genre. The strategy has been used before extensively in the study of a variety of Setswana genres (see Otlogetswe, 2007). Finally, the article demonstrates that such retrieved texts could be useful in a variety of applications, amongst these being, genre studies, lexicography and other data retrieval applications.","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117152566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding Talks : Ola Rotimi and the Theatre of the Absurd","authors":"P. Ebewo","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V18I1.39332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V18I1.39332","url":null,"abstract":"The Theatre of the Absurd, an avant-garde experiment in the theatrical enterprise, was devised in the 1950s and early 1960s by radical European and American dramatists to express their frustrations at the waste and hopelessness of human existence, particularly after the First and the Second World Wars. Operating from philosophical and metaphysical levels, Absurd dramatists artistically communicate non-realistic unconventional images that are designed to express the incomprehensible complex world that human beings are condemned to live in. The aesthetics of this theatre abandon logical flow of actions; the plays are plotless, characters lack individuality, language used by the characters is sheer “gibberish,” and often the plays contain no believable stories.\u0000Following the footsteps of the Absurd playwrights, Rotimi, an African playwright\u0000has constructed an experimental play, Holding Talks, which he labels “Absurd.” This paper\u0000is a critique of this experiment. The paper examines the concept of the Absurd in the\u0000African vis-a-vis the Nigerian world-view. The play (Holding Talks) is critically evaluated\u0000with the intention of determining its relevance to African theatrical praxis and its effect on\u0000the developing Nigerian audiences. The paper concludes that African dramatists should be\u0000cautious in their theatrical experiments in order not to render the theatre “deadly.” Keywords : theatre of the absurd, Ola Rotimi, Holding Talks , experimental theatre, anti-realism, audience. MARANG Vol. 18 2008 pp.153-160","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122098791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foregrounding as motivated prominence: a stylistic study of Thomas Hardy's 'Transformations'","authors":"Co Awonuga","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V14I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V14I1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115316246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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