Book Reviews by James O G B O N N A Ede
AN APPLICATION OF RELEVANCE THEORY TO FEMI OSOFISAN'S MOROUNTODUN, 2018
In Pragmatics, context is paramount. In other words, an audience is constrained to understand the... more In Pragmatics, context is paramount. In other words, an audience is constrained to understand the speaker's intention taking cognisance of the context in which utterances are uttered. One of those pragmatic theories of context interpretations is Relevance Theory (RT). Within the purview of RT, the cognitive domain of the audience/listener is taken under advisement. In other words, to understand utterances of a speaker/communicator from their contexts, the audience has to make use of their cognition in order to achieve optimal communicative relevance. Therefore, RT was applied to Osofisan's Moroutodun by analysing the dialogues/conversations of the characters in the texts based on their contexts. The analyses established that the characters' dialogues achieved communicative relevance by the cognitive ability of the critic/audience/reader to process contextual utterances.
Gender Discourse in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer, 2018
From time immemorial, different societies all over the world have roles/statuses assigned to male... more From time immemorial, different societies all over the world have roles/statuses assigned to males and females. There are different images as regards men/women. And male/female relationship is conservatively established. All these gender issues
Faceless captures the suffering of street children in Ghana. It shows how parents exposes their c... more Faceless captures the suffering of street children in Ghana. It shows how parents exposes their children to suffering. Men are mostly responsible for the plight of the children.
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