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Patil, P. B. – 1988
One of the central problems in the study of fictional prose is that of distinguishing between mere linguistic regularity, which in itself is of no interest to literary studies, and regularity which is significant for the text in which it is found. General criteria for determining whether any particular instance of linguistic prominence is likely…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Literature
Download full textAkindele, Femi – 1991
Although many studies have been undertaken by literary critics and stylisticians on African English literary texts generally and Nigerian English prose fiction specifically, there has been little or no analysis of dialogue and discourse in such texts. An examination of the phenomenon of speech as manifested in conversational pieces in Nigerian…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Fiction
