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Author | : Romanus Aboh |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1920033343 |
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Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.
Author | : Romanus Aboh |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1920033351 |
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Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.
Author | : Chinua Achebe |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385474547 |
Download Things Fall Apart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author | : Abigail Guthrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Igbo literature |
ISBN | : |
Download Language and Identity in Postcolonial African Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sociolinguists often research the development of language attitudes and the state of language within speech communities. Individual speakers reflect the status of their L1 language in both speaking and writing (Wa Thiong'o 1986, Showalter 2001), and the idea that writing can be used as a set of data that reflects an author's language attitude is the motivation for this research. Salikoko Mufwene (2001), one of the leading experts on creolization and the ecology of language, has argued that individual speakers of a language make daily choices that affect the future of their native tongue. Using the novel Things Fall Apart by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, this paper explores language attitudes of Post-colonial Nigerians toward English, and this author's literary and linguistic devices that reveal his own language stereotype. Post-colonial Nigeria was essentially forced into the development of Nigerian English, an English-based Creole, when Achebe's native language of Igbo was threatened by the appearance of Standard English; and in the convergence of two languages Nigerian English was formed. Achebe has been criticized for writing his novel in English, the language that many Africans see as a murderer of native African tongues. Mufwene argues that the individual is a part of every language change, and that the process of creolization begins when that speaker consciously or subconsciously retains the function words of their L1 and initiates replacement content words from the invading L2 lexicon. Contrary to Mufwene (2001), an analysis of Things Fall Apart reveals a paradoxical creolization. Achebe's process of creolization reveals a preference for his L1 content words while adopting the syntax and function words of the invading L2. The results of this paradoxical creolization reveal that although Achebe wrote his novel in the English language, he subconsciously valued Igbo content words as the preservers of his African identity, and that the future readers of African
Author | : Tayo Lamidi |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011 |
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Download Naming as S Strategy for Identity Construction in Selected 21st Century Nigerian Novels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Liwhu Betiang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Download Beneath the Rubble Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 2019-09-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789785644029 |
Download Languages and Culture in Nigeria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Language and Culture in Nigeria contains 97 papers from a wide range of areas in Language and Linguistics written by colleagues, friends and former students of Professor Okon Essien. The collection fulfills a gap in the quest for a documented piece of work on the general pattern and structure of Nigerian names and is an invaluable material for comparative purposes. There are 19 papers in section A focusing mainly on various aspects of sociolinguistics and the role of language in society. Section B comprises 24 papers which fall in the area of stylistics, literature and gender studies. Section C contains 21 papers focusing on applied areas of linguistics. Section D comprises 11 papers on information science and communication studies. Section E contains papers that focus on the formal areas of linguistics, i.e. phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics. Section F is on Okon Essien as a celebrity. It comprises papers which not only x-ray the contributions of the celebrity to the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria, but also situate him in the context of other linguistic celebrities globally. Section F is rapped up with a collection of brilliant poems dedicated to Professor Okon Essien by the 'Ode Grandmaster', Dr. Obed Ojukwu. There is also an appendix at the end of the work which is Professor Okon Essien's intimidating curriculum vitae.
Author | : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri |
Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785416410 |
Download Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bamgbose was the first indigenous Professor of Linguistics in Nigeria, and the first black African to teach linguistics in any known university south of the Sahara. He was there from the very beginning, and together with co-operation of people such as the late Professor Kay Williamson, he nurtured Nigerian linguistics. He is not just a foremost Nigerian linguist, but also a most famous, respected, celebrated, distinguished, and cherished African linguist of all times. To be candid, Nigerian linguistics is synonymous with Professor Emeritus Bamgbose. In 58 well-written chapters by experts in their fields, the book covers aspects of Nigerian languages, linguistics, literatures and culture. The papers have not been categorized into sections; rather they flow, hence there is some overlapping in the arrangement. The book is an essential resource for all who are interested to learn about current trends in the study of languages, linguistics and related subject-matters in Nigeria.
Author | : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri |
Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2016-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785412784 |
Download Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are grouped into four sections: Language and Society; Formal Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics, Language Acquisition & Lexicography. We hope readers will find these papers useful in their continuous quest for invaluable knowledge in African linguistics.
Author | : Nancy H. Hornberger |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2010-06-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847694012 |
Download Sociolinguistics and Language Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators, provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language education around the world. Topics covered include nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, gender and ethnicity, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, and ideologies and power. Whether considering the role of English as an international language or innovative initiatives in Indigenous language revitalization, in every context of the world sociolinguistic perspectives highlight the fluid and flexible use of language in communities and classrooms, and the importance of teacher practices that open up spaces of awareness and acceptance of --and access to--the widest possible communicative repertoire for students.