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Stylistic Analysis Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half Of A Yellow Sun
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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Although many works have been done on stylistics, little work has been done on style used in Chimamanda Adichie‟s
Half
of a yellow sun which was published in 2006. Most of the works done
were based on general analysis of how her works reflect the realities of
the society. To the knowledge of this researcher, no work has been done
on the stylistic analysis of the devices used in her work, hence, the
decision of the researcher to investigate the style of the author in
this her second widely acclaimed novel Half of A yellow Sun.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
This
study aims at an identification of the predominant stylistic devices
used in Chimamanda Adichie‟s Half Of A Yellow Sun and the effect these
devices have in the over all evaluation of the novel.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This
study will enable readers identify the predominant stylistic devices
used by Chimamanda Adichie in her novel Half Of A Yellow Sun as well as
the effect achieved by the use of these devices.
The study will, in addition, encourage writers to adopt the style of Chimamanda Adichie in their writing.
Finally, it will provide material for researchers in this field.
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY
This
investigation is limited to an analysis of the predominant stylistic
devices employed in Chimamanda Adichie‟s novel Half Of A Yellow Sun .
The novel comprises four parts namely: PART ONE: The Early Sixties; PART
TWO: The Late Sixties; Part Three: The Early Sixties‟ PART FOUR: The
late sixties. These four parts are made up of a total number of the
thirty seven (37) chapters but the researcher has selected twenty four
chapters for analysis.
The analysis is restricted to such stylistic
devices as compound sentences; compound complex sentences, italics, code
– mixing, parenthetical expression and transliteration which the
researcher encountered several times in the course of reading the novel.
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The method used in this investigation
was intensive study of related materials from the library and close
textual analysis of the novel Half Of A Yellow Sun using quantitative
anaysis. Quantitative analysis entails identifying counting and writing
down the frequency of occurrence of each of the identified stylistic
devices covered in the scope of study.
Furthermore out of the thirty
seven chapters that make up the novel, twenty four chapters are
selected by random sampling. All the chapters in parts one and part
three respectively of the novel are selected since they contain six
chapters each but in part two and part four, six chapters are selected
from each part by simple random sampling since they contain more than
six chapters each.
Part two contains twelve chapters while part four contains thirteen chapters.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study is a stylistic analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s novel Half Of A Yellow Sun, which comprises four parts with a total number of 37 chapters and 433 pages. The aim of this study is to identify the predominant stylistic devices used by the author in the novel and the effects achieved by using them. To achieve this aim, the researcher uses quantitative stylistic analysis which entails the counting and writing down the number of times each device occurs in the selected chapters ... Continue reading---
