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

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dc.creatorMsuya, Erasmus Akiley
dc.date2016-05-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date2016-05-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date2016-02
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T08:45:28Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T08:45:28Z
dc.descriptionThe 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.identifierInternational Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities
dc.identifier2321-7065
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1897
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1897
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Centre
dc.relationVol Iv, Issue III, pp. 525-553;
dc.subjectLiterary Language, Defamiliarization, Redundancy, Word Order
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION
dc.titleSyntactic Defamiliarization in Charles Mangua’s ‘Son Of Woman’
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

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