Non-verbal communication is a wordless form of communication whereby a message is initiated from a source and channeled through a medium to a receiver who receives processes and decodes the information. Artifactual code is a form of non-verbal communication used in body adornment which has received less attention by scholars especially in Yoruba novels. This paper filled the gap as it examined the functions of artifactual code as a form of non-verbal communication in Yoruba novels, the contexts in which it operates with a view to establishing its communicative value. This study is grounded on the theory of semiotics. The major elements of semiotics applied are symbol and index. However, eight Yoruba novels were purposively selected as sample and classified into three categories by this researcher for the purpose of this study. Also, the form of non-verbal code identified in the novels which is artifactual code is situated in four contexts, namely, social, religious, political and cultural contexts. This enhanced the semiotic functions performed by the novels. Key words: Artifactual code; Yoruba novels; Symbol; Index; Semiotics
{"title":"Functions of Artifactual Code as Non-Verbal Communication in Yoruba Novels","authors":"A. Adésànyà","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V8I1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V8I1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Non-verbal communication is a wordless form of communication whereby a message is initiated from a source and channeled through a medium to a receiver who receives processes and decodes the information. Artifactual code is a form of non-verbal communication used in body adornment which has received less attention by scholars especially in Yoruba novels. This paper filled the gap as it examined the functions of artifactual code as a form of non-verbal communication in Yoruba novels, the contexts in which it operates with a view to establishing its communicative value. This study is grounded on the theory of semiotics. The major elements of semiotics applied are symbol and index. However, eight Yoruba novels were purposively selected as sample and classified into three categories by this researcher for the purpose of this study. Also, the form of non-verbal code identified in the novels which is artifactual code is situated in four contexts, namely, social, religious, political and cultural contexts. This enhanced the semiotic functions performed by the novels. Key words: Artifactual code; Yoruba novels; Symbol; Index; Semiotics","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115422422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Earlier writings on female liberation have centred on a one-sided reactionary approach to patriarchy with little or no attention to indexes of female liberation that exudes solidarity, friendship and concern. This paper examines female friendship, solidarity, concern and support as valid notions of female bonding and viable tools for the woman’s educational, political and economic independence in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s House of Symbols (2001). The study adopts some aspects of Alice Walker’s “Womanism” and Ezeigbo’s “Snail Sense Feminism” as critical models in reviewing Ezeigbo mode of counter-hegemony discourse. Ezeigbo’s narrative promotes the idea of sisterhood in a way that transits traditional patriarchal dominance to educative and viable gender roles. A close-reading of the text indicates the impact of bonding on female characterization and reveals that education and economic independence constitute tools for liberation. The paper concludes that aspects of awareness and recognition are conscious steps in achieving female liberation. Key words : Womanism, Snail Sense Feminism, Akachi Ezeigbo, Patriarchal dominance, Counter-hegemony
{"title":"The Dynamics of Female Bonding and Liberation in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s House of Symbols","authors":"Monica Udoette","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v8i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v8i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Earlier writings on female liberation have centred on a one-sided reactionary approach to patriarchy with little or no attention to indexes of female liberation that exudes solidarity, friendship and concern. This paper examines female friendship, solidarity, concern and support as valid notions of female bonding and viable tools for the woman’s educational, political and economic independence in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s House of Symbols (2001). The study adopts some aspects of Alice Walker’s “Womanism” and Ezeigbo’s “Snail Sense Feminism” as critical models in reviewing Ezeigbo mode of counter-hegemony discourse. Ezeigbo’s narrative promotes the idea of sisterhood in a way that transits traditional patriarchal dominance to educative and viable gender roles. A close-reading of the text indicates the impact of bonding on female characterization and reveals that education and economic independence constitute tools for liberation. The paper concludes that aspects of awareness and recognition are conscious steps in achieving female liberation. Key words : Womanism, Snail Sense Feminism, Akachi Ezeigbo, Patriarchal dominance, Counter-hegemony","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130020208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literature is a social value which creeps out from human imagination. Its production is motivated by the pressures of conflict in the world of humanity and the strong instinct of man to device ways and means to conquer these challenging conflicts. Environmental literature thrives more on human and social conflict, particularly on the ecology of oppression. All over the world, traditions of literature have cropped up from the wreckage of war and difficult circumstances and situations man and society have been plunged into. These facts are well reflected in the literature of the world. But the Niger Delta experience has not been given adequate scholarly attention by literary scholars. This study demonstrates how a prolonged history and experience of violence in the Niger Delta characterised fundamentally by economic cannibalism, political brutality, environmental degradation and physical violence on the region have instituted literary nationalism. The study which deploys the historical and literary methodological modes of investigation shall undertake a conceptual foray on the implication of the concept of hard ground and its overview and as well provide a panoramic scaling of the hard ground in the history of struggle in the Niger Delta. The paper further argues that Niger Delta is a territorial figuration of hard ground and held firmly that literature is an emerging value of the rubbles of hard ground- a festering ecology of oppression and victimisation. Key words : Hard ground, emerging values, literature, technological, renaissance
{"title":"Literature: An Emerging Value in the Hard Ground of the Niger Delta","authors":"B. Binebai, S. D. Abraye","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V8I1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V8I1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Literature is a social value which creeps out from human imagination. Its production is motivated by the pressures of conflict in the world of humanity and the strong instinct of man to device ways and means to conquer these challenging conflicts. Environmental literature thrives more on human and social conflict, particularly on the ecology of oppression. All over the world, traditions of literature have cropped up from the wreckage of war and difficult circumstances and situations man and society have been plunged into. These facts are well reflected in the literature of the world. But the Niger Delta experience has not been given adequate scholarly attention by literary scholars. This study demonstrates how a prolonged history and experience of violence in the Niger Delta characterised fundamentally by economic cannibalism, political brutality, environmental degradation and physical violence on the region have instituted literary nationalism. The study which deploys the historical and literary methodological modes of investigation shall undertake a conceptual foray on the implication of the concept of hard ground and its overview and as well provide a panoramic scaling of the hard ground in the history of struggle in the Niger Delta. The paper further argues that Niger Delta is a territorial figuration of hard ground and held firmly that literature is an emerging value of the rubbles of hard ground- a festering ecology of oppression and victimisation. Key words : Hard ground, emerging values, literature, technological, renaissance","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132181357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper is an appraisal of the power of adaptation in literary text. It is motivated by the need to critically assess the impact of the act of adaptation in play productions. The study used the historical method to reveal the power of drama in vividly exposing themes originally in the work of the first writer. The researchers discovered that the act of adaptation consistently helps to promote and popularize the work, the author, and ultimately the culture in focus as in the prose being studied. The paper recommended that more attention should be given to the act of adaptation of literary works from poetry and prose to drama. The excise helped to foreground the thematic thrust of the original text, while expanding the target audience. This particular adaptation further projected the Igbo culture depicted in the prose which forms the corpus of this research. Key Words : Adaptation, playwriting, production elements, betrayal, performance
{"title":"Stage interpretation of Spencer Okoroafor’s “Battle of Wit and Will”: An Adaptation of Achebe’s Arrow of God","authors":"F. Nwafor, N. A. Bature-Uzor","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v8i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v8i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an appraisal of the power of adaptation in literary text. It is motivated by the need to critically assess the impact of the act of adaptation in play productions. The study used the historical method to reveal the power of drama in vividly exposing themes originally in the work of the first writer. The researchers discovered that the act of adaptation consistently helps to promote and popularize the work, the author, and ultimately the culture in focus as in the prose being studied. The paper recommended that more attention should be given to the act of adaptation of literary works from poetry and prose to drama. The excise helped to foreground the thematic thrust of the original text, while expanding the target audience. This particular adaptation further projected the Igbo culture depicted in the prose which forms the corpus of this research. Key Words : Adaptation, playwriting, production elements, betrayal, performance","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130338804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper exposed the rising violence on women in relation to violence shown in the Nollywood films and therefore, it aims to explore and examine violence meted against women with the intent of discovering why violence is perpetrated against them. The paper adopted literary research, focusing on content analysis of a selected Nollywood film entitled Freedom in Chains. Data collated was analysed with the intent of understanding the concept of violence as applied in the film, highlighting its patterns, trends, causes, effects, strategies and interventions. The study was anchored on the feminist film theories and aimed to contribute to feminist film theory. The suggested that no woman is immune to abuse, and recommended that there should be a re-examination of the underlying attitudes that maintain and encourage violence against women. Key-Words: Wife battery, Violence, Nollywood, Feminist, Film Theory
{"title":"A Critical Reading of Wife Battering in Fred Amata and Bond Emeruwa’s Freedom in Chains","authors":"Chidinma Ola Ukoha, John Ebimobowei Yeseibo","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v8i1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v8i1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper exposed the rising violence on women in relation to violence shown in the Nollywood films and therefore, it aims to explore and examine violence meted against women with the intent of discovering why violence is perpetrated against them. The paper adopted literary research, focusing on content analysis of a selected Nollywood film entitled Freedom in Chains. Data collated was analysed with the intent of understanding the concept of violence as applied in the film, highlighting its patterns, trends, causes, effects, strategies and interventions. The study was anchored on the feminist film theories and aimed to contribute to feminist film theory. The suggested that no woman is immune to abuse, and recommended that there should be a re-examination of the underlying attitudes that maintain and encourage violence against women. Key-Words: Wife battery, Violence, Nollywood, Feminist, Film Theory","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125219260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is the case that no human society exists without committing itself to certain unique values evidenced in the people’s way of life. This paper analytically identifies and assesses some African indigenous values depicted in Chinua Achebe’s novel: Things Fall Apart . These values are tied to the African culture and consistently define African identity, history, beliefs, and worldview. We observe that while some of these pristine indigenous values of African cultural heritage remain undiminished, others have in many and different ways, been significantly affected or vitiated mainly by the wave of globalization. In the light of modern intellectual enlightenment, we hold that the African indigenous values that respect the dignity of the human person, have to be revived, re-evaluated and made more significantly relevant in the day-to-day societal life of Africans for veritable integral development and socio-cultural progress of African states in the contemporary world. Keywords: African, indigenous, value, culture, community
{"title":"African indigenous values identified in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”: a socio-cultural analysis","authors":"Justin C. Njiofor","doi":"10.4314/laligens.v7i2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v7i2.5","url":null,"abstract":"It is the case that no human society exists without committing itself to certain unique values evidenced in the people’s way of life. This paper analytically identifies and assesses some African indigenous values depicted in Chinua Achebe’s novel: Things Fall Apart . These values are tied to the African culture and consistently define African identity, history, beliefs, and worldview. We observe that while some of these pristine indigenous values of African cultural heritage remain undiminished, others have in many and different ways, been significantly affected or vitiated mainly by the wave of globalization. In the light of modern intellectual enlightenment, we hold that the African indigenous values that respect the dignity of the human person, have to be revived, re-evaluated and made more significantly relevant in the day-to-day societal life of Africans for veritable integral development and socio-cultural progress of African states in the contemporary world. Keywords: African, indigenous, value, culture, community","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116881709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women’s domination over men is now noticeable in many parts of the world. Domination in the context of marriage is mostly seen as the supremacy of men over women. Very often, women only are perceived to be the victims of domestic violence and to undergo decisions made by men who are seen as the decision makers, the family leaders, and the perpetrators of violence in marriages. Consequently, female hegemony over men remains untold in many African societies. This role reversal is noticeable in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid through husbands’ battery and maltreatment and the leadership of women. Through the lenses of the reader-oriented theory, this paper investigated the method through which Darko makes available the phenomenon of women’s supremacy over men. It also argued that with the advent of women’s domination over men, mankind slowly and surely attempts an effective deconstruction of the patriarchal status exclusively dedicated to men. Violence and decision making are no longer the privilege of men as women are changing the role in a male-controlled society. Keywords: Domination, violence, female hegemony, male victims, patriarchal status
{"title":"Role reversal and women’s violence against men in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid","authors":"Célestin Gbaguidi, A. Kassin","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V7I2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Women’s domination over men is now noticeable in many parts of the world. Domination in the context of marriage is mostly seen as the supremacy of men over women. Very often, women only are perceived to be the victims of domestic violence and to undergo decisions made by men who are seen as the decision makers, the family leaders, and the perpetrators of violence in marriages. Consequently, female hegemony over men remains untold in many African societies. This role reversal is noticeable in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid through husbands’ battery and maltreatment and the leadership of women. Through the lenses of the reader-oriented theory, this paper investigated the method through which Darko makes available the phenomenon of women’s supremacy over men. It also argued that with the advent of women’s domination over men, mankind slowly and surely attempts an effective deconstruction of the patriarchal status exclusively dedicated to men. Violence and decision making are no longer the privilege of men as women are changing the role in a male-controlled society. Keywords: Domination, violence, female hegemony, male victims, patriarchal status","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129351972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main land of Africa enriches a large amount of natural resources that has been extracted and exploited for years. However, many African countries still rank among the poorest nations on the globe. The exploitation and sale of natural resources to western corporations have not helped Africans escape poverty. In addition, there are social issues that evolved over time from the sale and exploitation of resources. This work presented various forms of contemporary tourism and discusses matters of sustainable tourism development for local communities in Zakes Mda’s fictional account of the Xhosa community in Qolorha-by-Sea. This work therefore addressed issues that are neglected in the postapartheid era through the characters used in the novels.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.4314/laligens.v7i2.10
R. Alerechi, Samuel F. Joshua
Ambiguity in any language of the world is a clog in the wheel of effective communication. As a first attempt in this area of semantics in the language; this paper specifically treats polysemy and homonymy as the lexical components of ambiguity in Ikwere, an Igboid language spoken in Rivers State of Nigeria. It also analyzes some structural ambiguities resulting from certain syntactic structures. The data for this study are obtained through direct interviews with competent language consultants and through the participant observation method. The descriptive method of interlinear morpheme- to- morpheme glossing is employed in the analysis of ambiguous constructions. The work identifies polysemy in nouns and verbs in the language. Of notable significance is the polysemous behaviour of the verb ri ‘eat’, which is analyzed as having a core sense and twelve (12) different metaphorical or figurative extensions of the core. The paper further observed homonymous nouns, adjectives, verbs and a number of ambiguous sentences. As a way of disambiguating ambiguous expressions in the language, the work suggests three likely strategies namely: substitution of the subject-pronoun with the appropriate noun subject; completing the phrase or sentence for additional information, and supplying additional sentence. It is believed that this paper will not only serve as a stepping stone for further research in the language, it will also contribute to the body of literature in semantics. Kewords: Ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, polysemy, homonyms, structural ambiguity
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Women have both a right and an obligation to active participation in political deliberation. Yet, their participation in formal political processes, where decisions regarding the use of societal resources generated by both men and women are made, remains insignificant. Now researchers are looking beyond the number of women in parliament to focus on what they can do in terms of their contributions. This study, therefore investigates female parliamentarians’ contributions during parliamentary proceedings, evaluates how gendered these issues were. To accomplish this task, a textual analysis of the Hansard was done using critical discourse analysis and theory of gender and power. The analysis revealed that although female MPs contribute to a range of issues, they are ardent promoters of pro-women legislations such as issues on women, children and youth, health and education. Again, the study found out that a greater percentage of issues women contribute to are gendered and so reinforces the stereotypical roles given to women by society. Keywords: hansard, Ghana, linguistic, parliament, text, women
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