Wifehood (Im) Politeness in Negotiating Responsibility, Position and Solidarity in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband has Gone Mad Again

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dc.contributor.authorOlajimbiti, Ezekiel O.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-01T10:49:27Z
dc.date.available2020-06-01T10:49:27Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how wifehood is discursively practised in Yorùbá traditional polygamous marriage system as portrayed in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again. Purposively, excerpts involving the three wives of the major character, Lejoka Brown were sampled from the text. Through the instrumentality of politeness and impoliteness theories the study has unpacked the negotiation of responsibilities among wives in discharging their wifehood, where language is discursively used politely and impolitely based on the display of native competence and incompetence of the personalities involved. The study unveils hatred, unverified assumption, ignorance, anger and misconception as emergent factors that usually birth rivalry in wifehood negotiation of position that characterised impoliteness and family dysfunction in the rich verbal sociocultural setting. The study underscores the peaceful coexistence of wifehood within family discourse as a contribution to solving unhealthy marital issues characterised by linguistic politeness and impoliteness that pervade the contemporary society.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOlajimbiti, E. O. (2018). Wifehood (Im) Politeness in Negotiating Responsibility, Position and Solidarity in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband has Gone Mad Again. Studies in Literature and Language, 17(1), 34-42.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1923-1563
dc.identifier.uri10.3968/10425
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.elizadeuniversity.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12398/730
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCSC Canadaen_US
dc.subjectWifehooden_US
dc.subjectPolygamous marriage systemen_US
dc.subjectImpolitenessen_US
dc.subjectNative competenceen_US
dc.subjectRivalryen_US
dc.subjectOla Rotimien_US
dc.titleWifehood (Im) Politeness in Negotiating Responsibility, Position and Solidarity in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband has Gone Mad Againen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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