A Lexico-Stylistic Analysis of Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

A Lexico-Stylistic Analysis of Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

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This study focuses on the lexical peculiarities evident in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow. With a lexico-stylistic approach, the study reveals the relevance of a functional use of language, accentuating the fact that language exists in the context of people and situations, and as such, Yellow-Yellow reflects deliberate lexical choices such as loan-words/ blends, semantic extensions, neologisms,...
 
Published at (eds.).Language, Literature and Style in Africa (A Festschrift for Professor Christopher Olatunji Awonuga). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published in 2013
 
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Taiwo Abioye & Esther Ajiboye
Ajiboye Esther » Esther Ajiboye (PhD) lectures in the Department of Languages, Covenant University, Nigeria. She holds a PhD degree in English (Critical Discourse Studies/New Media Communications), and is a vibrant scholar whose research applies the principles and theoretical provisions of Critical Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, and Sociolinguistics. She is specifically involved in studies in relation to... view full profile
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