Edun, Olayinka Modinat and Mohammed, Elizabeth Tobiloba SOCIO-PRAGMATIC STUDY OF GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN AMA ATA AIDOOS CHANGES AND CHIMAMANDASS HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. In: 1st National Conference of WITED, Ilaro Chapter, August 13-16, 2019, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.
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Sociolinguistics is concerned with language use in social and cultural context and focuses on how we use language to accomplish acts in our different settings. Women and men speeches reflect their roles in the society, also the kind of relationships they keep with their interlocutors had a great influence on their choice of words. This study investigated a socio-pragmatic gender and language use of men and women in Ama Ata Aidoos Changes and Chimamandass Half of a Yellow Sun. The study adopted a descriptive research design method. This study examined the differences in use of language between women and men from the aspects of predominant speech acts, mood type, language features and context in the selected texts. The study made use of two Nigerian Literary texts: Ama Ata Aidoos Changes and Chimamanda Adichies Half of a Yellow Sun and samples were purposively selected from the texts which were solely on mix-sex dialogues. Few dialogues were randomly selected from both texts and were analyzed. Excerpts were presented in a table that differentiated the male from the female utterances. Findings revealed that male interlocutors used more of indicatives and interrogatives than the female interlocutors in the selected texts while women used more of directives and a little more of assertive languages in expressing indirect statements. It was concluded that the nature of the mood type employed by men and women in the selected texts was more of indicatives and declaratives.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email [email protected] |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2021 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2021 15:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1438 |
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