Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Literature – Africa, grade: B, , course: B.A (Hons) English, language: English, abstract: This project is a Critical Discourse Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s ‘The Beatification of the Area Boy’. Norman Fairclough’s theory has been used in the analysis of the text so as to reveal the hidden meaning behind every social interaction and how they affect power relation in the society. It is aimed at revealing the deep meaning of interactions as they affect our daily lives.
The methodology for the research is through selection and consequent analysis of utterances and other social behavior in the text. This will reveal the socio-cultural and the political atmosphere in the text. The textual, political and socio-cultural analysis have revealed the imbalances in the use of language among different strata of the society. Also, how the use of language reflects power dominance, injustice and inequality.
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