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Fathering a child does not just confer a new identity on a Nigerian man, it encapsulates the essence of his existence. Although male infertility negatively impacts sterile men’s masculinity, it is rarely studied as such. This study focuses on the struggles of the non-virile man in a culture where his existence is deeply rooted in virility. Using Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. I examine how the pronoun “I” and its Ngram realizations are used to express the male character’s personal struggles with infertility in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me. I conclude that an erect phallus is crucial to a male’s positive self-appraisal and self-actualization in Nigeria.
养育一个孩子不仅赋予了一个尼日利亚男人一个新的身份，也浓缩了他存在的本质。虽然男性不育会对不育男性的阳刚之气产生负面影响，但很少有人对此进行研究。本研究关注的是非阳刚男性在其存在深深植根于阳刚的文化中的挣扎。运用语料库语言学和批评语篇分析。在阿尤巴米·阿德巴约(Ayobami Adebayo)的小说《Stay with Me》中，我研究了代词“我”(I)及其Ngram实现是如何被用来表达男性角色与不育症的个人斗争的。我的结论是，在尼日利亚，勃起的阴茎对男性的积极自我评价和自我实现至关重要。
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