scholarly journals Lexico-grammatical Analysis of AdaOkere Agbasimalo’s The Forest Dames

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Goodluck C. Kadiri ◽  
Asadu Emmanuela Uzoma ◽  
Joekin Ekwueme
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Grammatical Analysis ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Nigerian Civil War ◽  
And Function

The importance of language in literary discourse can never be over-emphasized. Halliday and Matthiessen (2014), in broad terms, contend that language is used to carry out interpersonal functions in speech and writing. Hence, literary writers use language creatively to communicate their intended messages to their readers. This study, therefore, explores the lexico-grammatical assessment of AdaOkere Agbasimalo’s The Forest Dames. The study aimed at identifying the prevalent linguistic tools deployed in the novel by the author, as a style index, for plot and theme developments. Also, to discuss logically how these tools contribute to project meanings in the novel. The study adopts Leech and Short’s checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories as its analytical tool. Data were extracted randomly from the novel and analyzed qualitatively at levels of lexis and structure using the checklist. The findings revealed that the authors deployed more of the major parts of speech; military registers; code mixing and switching and pidginized word/expressions to express the theme of hostility and futility of war. Also, at the grammatical level, sentences according to structure and function; inverted and elliptical sentences; adverbial and adjectival clauses were also used to expresses various themes and to develop the plots of the novel logically. It was concluded that Agbasimalo is a writer who used English creatively to express the consequences of Nigerian civil war on women and children. Conversely, it was suggested that scholars should conduct further studies on other aspects not covered in this research.

scholarly journals Motivos clásicos en la novela Distintas formas de mirar el agua de Julio Llamazares

2018 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Álida Ares Ares
Keyword(s):  
Structure And Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
And Function ◽  
Julio Llamazares

<p>En este artículo se analiza la novela de Julio Llamazares Distintas formas de mirar el agua (2015)1 estudiando los elementos característicos de la obra que guardan semejanza con los trenos y plantos del teatro griego. Para ello, en primer lugar, se señalan las similitudes en lo que se refiere a la estructura y a la función de los personajes, así como el contenido temático y los tópicos clásicos del género elegíaco. A continuación, se consideran las distintas funciones del paisaje en la literatura clásica, subrayando los paralelismos y los valores que este adquiere en la novela. Para concluir se hace una breve reflexión acerca del concepto ideológico de tragedia que se refleja en el drama contemporáneo y en la obra del autor.</p><p><br />This article analyzes the novel written by Julio Llamazares, Distintas formas de mirar el agua (2015), and takes into account characteristic elements of the work that are reminiscent of Greek Theatre threnodies (planto or treno). In order to do this, we underline in the first place the similarities linked to the structure and function of the characters and also the thematic content and topics of elegiac classical genre. Then we consider various landscape features in classical literature emphasizing parallels and values that it acquires in this novel. In conclusion, we make a brief consideration about the ideological concept of tragedy reflected in contemporary drama and in this work of Llamazares.</p>

scholarly journals US CIVIL WAR MENURUT FORREST CARTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Suryo Sudiro ◽  
Sayit Abdul Karim ◽  
Juhansar Juhansar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Us ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
History Books ◽  
Us Civil War

A novel may reflect the political interests and actions of the author. The author can make a story that is purposed to alter common consciousness. This article uses historicism as an interpretation theory. Historicism is used to avoid careless interpretation. With historicism, the story written in the novel is matched with historical events written in some history books. Forrest Carter writes a lot about US Civil War. He, in purpose, does not write about slavery that is commonly read as the cause of the US Civil War. He writes a lot about the murder of women and children by the northern US army soldiers in southern districts. He also writes a lot about the cooperation of his white character with a Cherokee. Above all written by Forrest Carter, the influence of his life and his political interests are seen. 

THE WRITER AS THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS SOCIETY: A STUDY OF FESTUS IYAYI’S HEROES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Abdullahi Haruna
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Common ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

This article discusses the role of the creative writer as the conscience of his society using Festus Iyayi as an exam-ple. The study focuses on the themes and narrative technique of Iyayi's Heroes to present the author as a literary artist who exposes the corruption and other forms of social evil perpetrated against the common man and the soci-ety generally. Studies show that Iyayi’s Heroes is one of the literary works written on the Nigerian civil war fought between 1967 and 1970. Iyayi’s novel, however, is said to be different from other literary works on the war on account of its neutral perspective on the crisis. This is what informs the choice of the novel for this study. In the novel, Iyayi projects himself as the conscience of society highlighting the deceit, corruption, class-consciousness, insensitivity and avarice to which the common man and the society are subjected by the ruling class using the façade of fighting a civil war. The outcome of this study establishes Iyayi as a conscientious patriot who uses the genre of the novel to highlight the wrongs of Nigerian society with a prescription for social reform.

scholarly journals War and the subaltern: Voice as power in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu ◽  
Oyeh O. Otu ◽  
Onyekachi Eni
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Common People ◽  
War Novels ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Nigerian Civil War ◽  
War Discourse

In Africa, as in most other parts of the world, whenever there is war (or massive violence of any other hue), the common people are used as cannon fodder to protect the powerful upper class formulators of the letters of the war. Women and children are easily the most vulnerable. They are raped, tortured, murdered, starved, widowed, and exposed to all sorts of insecurity and depredation. In the end they are marginally characterized in upper class, male-centered war discourse. In this research, we locate the voice of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta’s civil war novel, Destination Biafra (1982). We utilize Subaltern Studies in a qualitative approach to offer the needed agency to female subalterns as well as a few other marginalized groups. We map the trajectory of these voices and show that the subaltern woman and the other margins denounce colonial complicity in the androcentric war, and would rather the society eschewed violence as conflict resolution strategy. With this study we fill an existing gulf in the Nigerian Civil War narrative and create an alternative discourse against the largely upper class, male-centered voices that have hitherto characterized civil war novels.

scholarly journals “Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?”

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-107
Author(s):  
Michelle Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
Arabic Fiction ◽  
And Function

Abstract Scholarship in modern Arabic literary studies has treated the literature of the Lebanese Civil War, particularly novels written by women, in some depth. One of the most important texts used in both scholarship and teaching about this war is Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Ḥikāyat Zahrah, translated as The Story of Zahra. This article focuses specifically on the one chapter in the novel narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s uncle in order to explore how the English translation dramatically changes a number of elements in the original text. It uses insights from translation studies to show how significant changes to the novel in translation produce a text that serves particular ideological functions in English, consistent with a horizon of expectations that constructs Arab women as oppressed and passive victims of war. The article analyzes specific translation choices—most notably the extensive editing out of words, sentences, and passages—to demonstrate how the character of Zahrah’s uncle is changed in English and depicted as an unsavory and abusive man with little background, context, or history that would help the reader to better understand the character’s actions and motivations. It also shows how cutting out elements of the uncle’s story serves to depoliticize the text in English, divesting it of its local political context and changing its meaning and function as a novel about the Lebanese Civil War. The article is grounded in postcolonial, feminist translation studies, especially those dealing with Arabic fiction, to argue that the English-language novel The Story of Zahra functions within an ideological field that recycles stereotypes and tropes about Arab women. It will propose that the translation changes here depict Arab men against Arab women, rather than in relation to them, and subordinate the analysis of politics and communal relations to a more individual and individualized story of one exceptional woman.

scholarly journals Murine CENP-F Regulates Centrosomal Microtubule Nucleation and Interacts with Hook2 at the Centrosome

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 4790-4803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Moynihan ◽  
Ryan Pooley ◽  
Paul M. Miller ◽  
Irina Kaverina ◽  
David M. Bader
Keyword(s):  
Protein Function ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Yeast Two Hybrid ◽  
Cellular Functions ◽  
Binding Partner ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Organizing Center ◽  
And Function ◽  
Two Hybrid

The microtubule (MT) network is essential in a broad spectrum of cellular functions. Many studies have linked CENP-F to MT-based activities as disruption of this protein leads to major changes in MT structure and function. Still, the basis of CENP-F regulation of the MT network remains elusive. Here, our studies reveal a novel and critical localization and role for CENP-F at the centrosome, the major MT organizing center (MTOC) of the cell. Using a yeast two-hybrid screen, we identify Hook2, a linker protein that is essential for regulation of the MT network at the centrosome, as a binding partner of CENP-F. With recently developed immunochemical reagents, we confirm this interaction and reveal the novel localization of CENP-F at the centrosome. Importantly, in this first report of CENP-F−/− cells, we demonstrate that ablation of CENP-F protein function eliminates MT repolymerization after standard nocodazole treatment. This inhibition of MT regrowth is centrosome specific because MT repolymerization is readily observed from the Golgi in CENP-F−/− cells. The centrosome-specific function of CENP-F in the regulation of MT growth is confirmed by expression of truncated CENP-F containing only the Hook2-binding domain. Furthermore, analysis of partially reconstituted MTOC asters in cells that escape complete repolymerization block shows that disruption of CENP-F function impacts MT nucleation and anchoring rather than promoting catastrophe. Our study reveals a major new localization and function of CENP-F at the centrosome that is likely to impact a broad array of MT-based actions in the cell.

scholarly journals CODE MIXING IN NOVEL RANGE OF STORIES BY GITA SAVITRI DEVI AND ITS RELATION TO NOVEL TEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Devita Apriani ◽  
Denik Wirawati
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
And Function ◽  
Equivalent Method

This research is motivated by the use of code-mixing in the novel Range of Stories by Gita Savitri Devi. This study aims to describe the form and function of code-mixing in the novel and to relate it to teaching materials in learning novel texts for class XII SMA. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The research subject is the novel Range of Stories by Gita Savitri Devi and the object under study is code mixing in the novel. Data collection is done by using reading and note techniques. The main instrument determinant in this research is the researcher himself. The data analysis technique used is the referential equivalent method, while the data validity technique uses intrarater and interrater. This technique  is done by intensifying observations, namely by reading the novel Range of Stories repeatedly. Meanwhile, the interrater technique was carried out by checking the validity of the data through supervisors and colleagues who carried out the same research. Then, data analysis using referential equivalent method. The results of this study are as follows: (1) code-mixing forms in the form of words, word groups, clauses, baster, abbreviations, and word repetitions; (2) the function of code mixing as repetition of words, display of learning, affirmation of the accuracy of meaning, and indication of uniqueness; and (3) the link between code mixing in novels and teaching materials in learning novel texts for class XII SMA based on KD 3.9 and 4.9.

The structure and function of the novel MHC class II molecule, HLA-DM

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 208S-208S ◽  
Author(s):  
ULRIKE GRUNEBERG ◽  
S. MARIEKE VAN HAM ◽  
GEORG MALCHEREK ◽  
IRIS BROKER ◽  
ARTHUR MELMS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mhc Class Ii ◽  
Class Ii ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
And Function

scholarly journals Divergent Struggles for Identity and Safeguarding Human Values: A Postcolonial Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Aisha Mustapha Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

In the novel Adichie uncovers the characters’ struggles based on the loss of Identity and Human values which is basically the result of the Nigerian civil war. The characters strive to bring back what they lost due to the war. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born much later after the Nigerian civil war of 1966-1969. Chimamanda Adichie had the interest to revive history of the war; she used her imaginative talent in bringing what she hadn’t experienced. The novel Half of a Yellow Sun is a literary work which uses the theory of post-colonialism or post-colonial studies, it is a term that is used to analyze and explain the legacy of colonialism through the study of a particular book. Colonialism did not happen during the colonial era only but extended to after independence of the countries that were colonized. The novel Half of a Yellow Sun shows the effect of colonialism after independence of Nigeria. Adichie believes that by bringing back the issue of the war, the growing generation would understand more about the war. According to her in Nigeria the history taught in the primary and secondary schools is not complete, some parts were removed and nobody is allowed to talk about it. So through the novel, she tries to go through history to see what has happened, so that she can make the young generation understand history better. The book opens with a poem by Chinua Achebe about the Nigerian civil war.

Structure and function of neural networks in the retina

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Peter Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Synaptic Connections ◽  
Visual Axis ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Cat Retina ◽  
Ultrathin Sections ◽  
And Function ◽  
Insight Into

The synaptic connections in cat retina that link photoreceptors to ganglion cells have been analyzed quantitatively. Our approach has been to prepare serial, ultrathin sections and photograph en montage at low magnification (˜2000X) in the electron microscope. Six series, 100-300 sections long, have been prepared over the last decade. They derive from different cats but always from the same region of retina, about one degree from the center of the visual axis. The material has been analyzed by reconstructing adjacent neurons in each array and then identifying systematically the synaptic connections between arrays. Most reconstructions were done manually by tracing the outlines of processes in successive sections onto acetate sheets aligned on a cartoonist's jig. The tracings were then digitized, stacked by computer, and printed with the hidden lines removed. The results have provided rather than the usual one-dimensional account of pathways, a three-dimensional account of circuits. From this has emerged insight into the functional architecture.

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