scholarly journals Woes of the African Society: A Stylistic Analysis of Parallelism and Semantic Deviation in Philip Obioma Chinedu Umeh's Ambassadors of Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-289
Author(s):  
PETER MWINWELLE ◽  
John Adukpo ◽  
Cletus Komudayiri Kantorgorje ◽  
Grace Asante-Anyimadu
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
African Society ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Complex Sentences ◽  
Parallel Structures ◽  
Artistic Works

Corruption has been one of the main challenges bedeviling the African society. Most artistic works in the form of writing and craft have dealt extensively with this canker of corruption. The poem ‘Ambassadors of Poverty’ is one of such works that touches on corruption in Africa. The present study seeks to examine the communicative implications underpinning the use of parallelism and semantic deviation in the poem. The study is situated within the linguistic and stylistic categories framework by Leech and Short (2007). The findings of the study identify forms of parallelism (noun phrases, prepositional phrases, simple and complex sentences) as well as forms of semantic deviation (metaphor, personification, irony, sarcasm, paradox, oxymoron and symbolism). The findings further unveil a preponderant use of varied shades of parallel structures to juxtapose the impoverished state of the ordinary African with the corrupt and luxurious lifestyle of African leaders while forms of semantic deviation are used to encode the unpatriotic attitudes of African leaders in figurative terms.  The study concludes that literary works such as poems are potent instruments that are subtly used to expose and condemn the ills of society. The study has implications for research, theory and practice.

scholarly journals AFRICA IN RETROSPECT AND THE FUTURE: A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEVIATION AND PARALLELISM IN DIOP’S AFRICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Djorbua ◽  
Isaac Danquah Darko ◽  
Daniel Afrifa-Yamoah
Keyword(s):  
Functional Unit ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Structural Pattern ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Parallel Structures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Figurative Expressions

Attention of language scholars has been shifting from the structural pattern of language to language as a functional unit given the change of interest from the form of a language to its function. This study presents a stylistic analysis of a well-known poem by David Diop “Africa” and analyses the unique role that language plays in projecting the central theme of the poem. The poem Africa is one of the poems that laments the ill treatments that Africa suffered in the hands of its colonialists, but which quickly paints a picture of hope for the continent. The researchers used foregrounding both as a stylistic theory and a method to analyse the poem so as to investigate how linguistic deviations and parallel structures are employed to project the central theme of the poem. The study revealed that both linguistic deviations and parallel structures as well as figurative expressions abound in the poem. These linguistic tools have, in no doubt, contributed immensely to the projection of the overall meaning of the poem – Africa’s past glories, present predicaments of suffering and humiliation under colonialism and the future of hope and freedom embedded in Africa’s rebirth. The study concludes that language and literary works contribute in a unified manner to expose the rots in society and then project a future of hope. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0876/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Secondary predicates

2021 ◽  
pp. 777-825
Author(s):  
Harm Pinkster
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Semantic Relationship ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Secondary Predicates ◽  
Case Number

Chapter 21 deals with secondary predicates (also called ‘praedicativa’), with quantifiers, and with the pronouns ipse and idem. The function of secondary predicate can be fulfilled by various categories of nominal expressions, such as adjectives, nouns, and participles which agree with the constituent to which they belong in case, number, and/or gender, but also by noun phrases in multiple case forms and prepositional phrases. The semantic relationship between the secondary predicate and the constituent it belongs to is usually implicit. A clause can contain more than one secondary predicate.

scholarly journals Complexity in the Noun Phrase Structure of the Nigerian EFCC Act

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Usman Muhammed Bello ◽  
Rachel Afegbua Zainab
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
The Times ◽  
Post Modification

This research examines the noun phrase structure in the EFCC Act. Other English phrases (verb, adjectival, adverbial, and prepositional phrases) are unimportant to this study except, of course, when they relate to noun phrase. The design for the research is qualitative/content analysis. The EFCC Act provides the data for the study. Noun phrases of different realisations are randomly selected from the text in order to establish the extent of their complexity or otherwise by categorizing the kinds of structure that pre-modify or post-modify the head word. These are further examined in order to establish the extent of their complexity or otherwise by categorizing the kinds of structure that pre-modify or post-modify the head word. The analysis is based on the MHQ models. Findings show that the Act is populated with complex noun phrases, and this complexity, most of the times, lies in post-modification and, at other times, in pre-modification. Sometimes, both pre-modification and post-modification are responsible for this complexity. However, complexity is more realized through post-modification than pre-modification. This complexity is a result of an attempt to restrict or limit the sense of the headword or an attempt to reduce meaning to possible exactitude or clarity.

scholarly journals Adverb of manner and its translations found in the novel “The Good Earth”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
I Made Juliarta
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Verb Phrase ◽  
Adverbial Phrase ◽  
Manner Adverb ◽  
Sentence Adverbs

The novel the Good Earth is one of the popular novels that tell the story about Chinese culture. Some sentences contain an adverb of manner and its translation from English into Indonesian. The text is analyzed and viewed to find the translation of the adverb of manner. The purpose of this study is to analyze the source translation and get the meaning and its sentence. As we know that an adverb is a word that changes the meaning of a verb, adjective, and a sentence. Adverbs are words like hurriedly, quickly, slowly, and instantly. It modifies a verb or verb phrase. An adverb gives information about the manner, time, place, frequency, or certainty. Adverbials are words groups in which an adverbial phrase tells us something about the verb. They could be taken in the forms of adverbs, adverb phrases, temporal noun phrases or prepositional phrases. Some classifications of adverbial are found in the novel. It is called adverbial of manner. The research aims to find out the translation of manner adverb. The theory used is Brown and Miller (1992) describing that adverb of manner indicating how the event described by the verb. 

scholarly journals The Beauty of Evil” – On the Uniqueness of Arson in Literary Works

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Xiaotong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Archetypal Criticism ◽  
Literary Meaning ◽  
Artistic Works

Fire is of great significance in the process of human civilization, carrying multiple functions such as hunting, sacrifice, cooking, and punishment. Arson, as one of the means of destroying objects, often appears in literary and artistic works. Why arson has become a means of evil favored by creators, and occasionally presents a strong sense of beauty in the text. This article will start with Bertha Mason’s arson in "Jane Eyre", linking classic texts with arson as an important plot, such as "Burn the Warehouse" and "Golden Pavilion", and explore the unique literary meaning of the dialectic of the beauty and evil of arson in combination with archetypal criticism.

scholarly journals СЪС ИЛИ БЕЗ ПРЕДЛОЗИ: КОЕ Е ВЯРНОТО / WITH OR WITHOUT PREPOSITIONS: WHICH IS TRUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (PR) ◽  
pp. 257-275
Author(s):  
SVETLA KOEVA
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Head Noun ◽  
Prepositional Phrase ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Semantic Dependency

The article focuses on the competition between noun phrases in which the head noun is modified by either a relative adjective, noun qualitative modifier or a prepositional phrase. Several tests are proposed to distinguish between phrases with noun qualitative modifier and compounds consisting of two nouns. The type of the prepositions that occur in the prepositional phrases is characterised, and the conclusion is drown that the semantic dependency in the three competing structures is the same, although it is overtly expressed only through the prepositions. Keywords: noun qualitative modifier, syntactic alternations with prepositional phrases, identification of compounds, Bulgarian language

Trois Constructions a Dependance Entre Sujet Et PP

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjell-Åke Gunnarson
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Subject Noun ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
The Subject

Kjell-Åke Gunnarson: Three Constructions with a Dependency between Subject and PP. This study bears on relations between subject noun phrases and prepositional phrases found in various positions. The author discusses the action of a rule that extraposes noun complements of the subject head. Thus prepositional phrases are moved to positions that superficially appear as complement position. Complex conditions on the application of the rule lead to the distinction of three types of constructions that depend both on the main verb and on the content of the noun phrases.

A Corpus-Based Study of Chunks in Applied Linguistics Research Articles

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 2465-2469
Author(s):  
Geng Sheng Xiao ◽  
Bang Xiong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Linguistic Research

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to disciplinary variation of chunk use, but so far little has been done on chunks in the field of applied linguistics. This paper aims to explore the structures and functions of 4-word chunks in 1, 032,497 word tokens corpus of applied linguistic research articles. The analysis reveals that applied linguists tend to use more prepositional phrases with of fragments and noun phrases with of fragments. Moreover, research-oriented chunks are the most prevalent, text-oriented the next, participant-oriented the fewest. Lastly, pedagogical suggestions are put forward that students awareness should be aroused of unique features of chunk use in applied linguistics in terms of structures and functions.

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