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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES BY LOLA SHONEYIN

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CHAPTER ONE: General Introduction                                                                                      1

1.1       Background to the Study                                                                                                1

1.2       Statement of Research Problem                                                                                      6

1.3       Aim and Objective of Study                                                                                           6

1.4       Significance of the Study                                                                                               6

CHAPTER TWO: Review of Relevant Literature                                                                        8

2.1       Review of Basic Stylistic Concepts                                                                                8

2.1.1     The Concept of Style                                                                                                     8

2.1.2     The Notion of Stylistics                                                                                                 10

2.2       The Concept of Feminism                                                                                              15

2.3       Review of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar                                                       19        

2.3.1    The Key Elements of SFL                                                                                          21

2.3.2    SFL as an Applicable Tradition                                                                     24

2.3.4    Examples of the Value of Applying SFL                                                                   25

CHAPTER THREE: Methodology                                                                                        27

3.0       Introduction                                                                                                                27

3.1       Data and Method of Collection                                                                                  27

3.2       Theoretical Framework                                                                                              27

CHAPTER FOUR: Data Presentation and Analysis                                                              28

4.0       Introduction                                                                                                                28

4.1       Analysis of the thematic concerns of the novel                                                          28

4.2       Analysis of the grammatical Features of the text                                                       29

4.2.1     Sentence Types                                                                                                             29

4.2.2     Simple Sentences                                                                                                          29

4.2.3     Compound Sentences                                                                                                    29

4.2.4     Complex Sentences                                                                                                       30

4.3       Analysis of the lexical features of the text                                                                       30

4.3.1     Diction and Register                                                                                                      30

4.3.2     Figures of Speech                                                                                                          32

4.3.2.1  Simile                                                                                                                           33

4.3.2.2  Personification                                                                                                              33

4.3.2.3  Hyperbole                                                                                                                     33

4.3.2.4  Alliteration                                                                                                                   33

4.3.2.5  The Use of Poetry                                                                                                         34

4.4       Discussion of Findings                                                                                                  34

CHAPTER FIVE: Summary and Conclusion                                                                              36

5.1 Summary                                                                                                                            36

5.2 Conclusion                                                                                                                          37

5.3 Recommendations for Further Study                                                                                     38

References                                                                                                                                39

Abstract

Styles in literary compositions has a periscopic function. It implicate the writer’s ideologies, background and intentions; it gives expression to his fertile imagination and thoughts. On the part of the reader, the style used is elemental in deconstructing the text. Writers overtime, have appropriated a variety of techniques as a vehicle of channelling their worldviews. Lola Shoneyin has earned her reputation and fame not just because of the stories she tell, but how she tell these stories. According to the formalists the straightforwardness of a text is not constituted in the ability of the reader to familiarize the defamiliarized, but in recognizing the tensions created in the style used by the writer. This study therefore, using Halliday’s Systematic Functional linguistic theory is an attempt to interrogate the styles used by Shoneyin in her work; The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, in order to establish the lexical features, grammatical features and thematic concern of the text. The analyses revealed that Shoneyin’s astuteness employed brilliant style with various sentence types to sustain readers’ interest.  The story line was clearly plotted and it brought originality to the work and her choice of words proves assertion that no two individuals with a common language use it in eaxactly the same way.

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