The language of African literature / edited by Edmund L. Epstein and Robert Kole; with an introduction by Edmund L. Epstein.

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TextAfrica World Press, 1996Description: xii, 298 pages: 22 cmContent type:

text

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rdamedia

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rdacarrier

ISBN:

9780865435340

Subject(s):

African literatures

LOC classification:

PL8010 LAN

Contents:

Language as sensation: the use of poetic and evocative language in five African autobiographies / Tony E. Afejuku Translation: a distinctive feature of African literature in English / Oluwole Adejare Toward a speech-act approach to Nigerian literature in English / Efurosibina Adegbija Code-switching in Soyinka's The interpreters ; The language of passion in Soyinka's The interpreters: a stylistic analysis / James O. Omole / The styles of Abiku: two related diatypes of English / Mabel Osakwe Densely speaking: to do or not to do: a comparative stylistic analysis of Soyinka's and Clark's poems ; The syntax and semantics of "Idanre" noun phrases: a linguistic spectacle / Mabel Osakwe. The development of code in Soyinka's The road: a stylistic analysis / Michael Cosser Rhetorical and linguistic games in comic aesthetics / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Indirectness in discourse: a study in paradoxical communication among the Igbos / Bertram A. Okolo D.O. Fagunwa's narratives: a rhetorical analysis / Gabriel A. Ajadi Lexical cohesion in Okot p'Bitek's A song of prisoner ; The stylistic significance of the graphological structure of Taban lo Liyong's Another nigger dead / Ogo A. Ofuani Taban lo Liyong's The uniformed man: a reconstructivist and metafictional parody of modernism / F. Odun Balogun Register as a function of contextualization: a survey of the Southern African variety of English / Benjamin J. Magura

Summary: "In this anthology, some of the most prolific and widely-read African novelists are analyzed - by some of the most advanced African linguists - from two divergent but mutually illuminating perspectives: a sophisticated linguistic and cultural analysis of their works as world-class literary products; and a "cross-cultural" analysis of the rich influence of one (or more) of the over-3,000 indigenous African languages on the English-language writing style of these African authors."--Jacket

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Includes index.

Language as sensation: the use of poetic and evocative language in five African autobiographies / Tony E. Afejuku
Translation: a distinctive feature of African literature in English / Oluwole Adejare
Toward a speech-act approach to Nigerian literature in English / Efurosibina Adegbija
Code-switching in Soyinka's The interpreters ; The language of passion in Soyinka's The interpreters: a stylistic analysis / James O. Omole / The styles of Abiku: two related diatypes of English / Mabel Osakwe
Densely speaking: to do or not to do: a comparative stylistic analysis of Soyinka's and Clark's poems ; The syntax and semantics of "Idanre" noun phrases: a linguistic spectacle / Mabel Osakwe. The development of code in Soyinka's The road: a stylistic analysis / Michael Cosser
Rhetorical and linguistic games in comic aesthetics / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
Indirectness in discourse: a study in paradoxical communication among the Igbos / Bertram A. Okolo
D.O. Fagunwa's narratives: a rhetorical analysis / Gabriel A. Ajadi
Lexical cohesion in Okot p'Bitek's A song of prisoner ; The stylistic significance of the graphological structure of Taban lo Liyong's Another nigger dead / Ogo A. Ofuani
Taban lo Liyong's The uniformed man: a reconstructivist and metafictional parody of modernism / F. Odun Balogun
Register as a function of contextualization: a survey of the Southern African variety of English / Benjamin J. Magura

"In this anthology, some of the most prolific and widely-read African novelists are analyzed - by some of the most advanced African linguists - from two divergent but mutually illuminating perspectives: a sophisticated linguistic and cultural analysis of their works as world-class literary products; and a "cross-cultural" analysis of the rich influence of one (or more) of the over-3,000 indigenous African languages on the English-language writing style of these African authors."--Jacket

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