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Syntactic Defamiliarization in Charles Mangua’s ‘Son Of Woman’

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dc.creator Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
dc.date 2016-05-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date 2016-05-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date 2016-02
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:45:28Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:45:28Z
dc.identifier International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities
dc.identifier 2321-7065
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1897
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1897
dc.description The current study is analytical account of ways in which language is estranged in literary writing. It used “Son of Woman” by a Kenyan novelist, Charles Mangua. The study was delimited to redundancy and word order levels of syntactic defamiliarization. This was achieved by sorting sentences that belonged to the two clusters of syntactic defamiliarization and thereafter different instances of defamiliarization were re-sorted in each cluster in search for evidence of defamiliarization in the ordering of structural strings. The findings show that the novel abounds with different kinds of syntactic defamiliarization, with stylistic deixis and sentential asyndeton being most recurring. It has been concluded that this richness in syntactic craftsmanship for aesthetic ends makes the novel a masterpiece in linguistic witting.
dc.language en
dc.publisher International Centre
dc.relation Vol Iv, Issue III, pp. 525-553;
dc.subject Literary Language, Defamiliarization, Redundancy, Word Order
dc.subject Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION
dc.title Syntactic Defamiliarization in Charles Mangua’s ‘Son Of Woman’
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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