A Linguistic (Stylistic) Reading of Ideological Discourse in Festus Iyayi's "Violence, the Contract" and "Heroes"

Autor/inn/en	Alli, Oyedokun; Ademola, Wasiu
Titel	A Linguistic (Stylistic) Reading of Ideological Discourse in Festus Iyayi's "Violence, the Contract" and "Heroes"
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 10 (2019) 1, S.129-134 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Language Styles; Discourse Analysis; Correlation; Novels; African Culture; Literature; Marxian Analysis; Literary Criticism; Literary Devices; Critical Theory; Foreign Countries; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachstil; Diskursanalyse; Korrelation; Novel; Roman; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Literatur; Marxism; Marxismus; Literaturkritik; Literaturarbeit; Kritische Theorie; Ausland
Abstract	This paper undertakes, through the prism of linguistic (stylistic) analysis, a reading of the ideological discourse in Festus Iyayi's novels- "Violence, The Contract", and "Heroes", with the broad aim of establishing the nexus between literature and ideology, through the instrumentation of language, for societal transformation. The paper explores the symbiotic relationship between language and literature and how the former is used in the study and understanding of the latter. Attempt is made to identify the patterns of use of language with reference to the purpose of commenting on quality, the exegesis and interpretative meanings of the text. The scaffold upon which our analysis is anchored is the Marxist literary criticism based on socialist and dialectical theories. It is the contention of the Marxist theorists that literary works are a reflection of the social institutions from which they originate. Terry Eagleton has affirmed that Marxist criticism "is not merely sociology of literature" but paying attention to its forms, style and meaning with a view to grasping those forms, style and meaning "as the products of a particular history. In all, four major literary tools-narrative technique, lexical choice, dialogue and authorial comments are deployed as indices for our analytical framework, using the Critical Discourse Analysis. What is apparent is that no success can be achieved in the reading and understanding of a literacy text without a manifest use of language. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01