A LEXICO-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW

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dc.creatorAbioye, T., Ajiboye, Esther
dc.date2014
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-28T17:17:06Z
dc.descriptionCreativity, the expression of a writer’s imagination, is drawn from the totality of the writer’s experiences. Writers use language, the common middle-ground and the writer’s communication tool, to convey or express their experiences (as in the case of Yellow-Yellow) as well as their cultures and backgrounds which they may or may not share with their readers. A people’s culture certainly includes their language (Bodley 2008). This implies that language in use cannot be excluded from the society in which it is used. Moreover, context is a major determinant of any act of language behaviour while choice of words and meaning derivations are a factor of context or environment (Bright 2006). Firth’s (1957:173) view of language as “occurring in a culturally determined context of situation” is, therefore, apposite. Eggins (2004:8) states that “our ability to deduce context from text is one way in which language and context are interrelated”. In the light of this, this chapter illustrates the relationship between language use and style, the manner in which the writer’s experience is conveyed, at the lexical level to showcase the distinctly Nigerian or Niger-Deltan flavour of Yellow-Yellow.
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dc.identifierhttp://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/5933/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/35292
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
dc.subjectAI Indexes (General), H Social Sciences (General), P Philology. Linguistics, PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
dc.titleA LEXICO-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW-YELLOW
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