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| Title: | POWER, RESPONSIBILITY AND LANGUAGE |
| Authors: | Victoria, Oluwamayowa Ogunkunle |
| Keywords: | OSASS |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2015 |
| Publisher: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Abstract: | The basic assumption of this research is that communication is preoccupied with the relationships between language and other variables outside language. The study, therefore, investigates how such variables as power and responsibility acquire their forms in and through language in Soyinka’s play. By focusing on the conative function of language as proposed by Jacobson (1960), the study explains how the relationships between language and power, language and responsibility are dramatized in Soyinka’s A Play of Giants. The study concludes that despite the fact that power and responsibility are subsumed in positions of authority; the powerful abducts power from those positions and leave the responsibility unattended to. This work adopts insights from a functionalist orientation in order to study an aspect of the language of Soyinka’s A Play of Giants. |
| Description: | OSASS is a publication of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti. It is a platform for the publishing of scholarly and well researched essays and a forum for intellectual dialogue among scholars and academics in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Specifically, it is a forum for the dissemination of research reports in Demography and Social Statistics, Economics and Development Studies, English and Literary Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Theatre and Media Arts, Political Science, Geography and Regional Planning, Communication Arts, History, Human Science and other relevant disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences. Comments on current issues, research notes and book reviews are also of interest to this Journal |
| URI: | http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/966 |
| ISSN: | 2465-7395 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oye Studies in Arts and Social Sciences
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