Communicative Strategies in Contemporary Nigerian Drama: A Stylistic Analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s The Lottery Ticket
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Date
2014
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Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The study is a stylistic analysis of Ahmed Yerima‟s The Lottery Ticket. Like other contemporary Nigerian
dramatists, Yerima is engaged in the quest for suitable forms with which the Nigerian experience can be transmitted
through drama. We examine the stylistic features in the Play. We mainly hinge on the Communicative Model of stylistic
theory for the analysis of four data selected via defined parameters. The analysis reveals that the Play is characterized by
authorial use of diverse stylistic and rhetorical devices: cohesive devices, point of view, pidgin and figurative language.
Thus, the structure of the play is functional. We rely on the Projection Principle to extend the stylistic features of the play
to contemporary Nigerian drama
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Staff Publication
Keywords
Contemporary Nigerian drama,, style,, stylistics,, Communicative Model of stylistic theory,, Projection Principle,, rhetoric