THE LANGUAGE OF FEMINISM AND ITS IMPACT TO THE SOCIETY: A CASE STUDY OF MARIAMA BA’S So Long a Letter

ABSTRACT

This paper duels on women’s lamentation over male subjugation. Women’s lamentation over male subjugation has in recent years filtered into a determination to abnegate sexism. With this stand, their former conciliatory position becomes superseded by a current of revolt against man and tradition as highlighted through semantic compounding and linguistic parallelism in So Long a Letter.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW

LANGUAGE AND FEMINISM
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOUR
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF MALE AND FEMALE LANGUAGE
MEANING OF FEMINISM
THEORIES OF FEMINISM
LIBERAL FEMINISM
MARXIST FEMINISM
RADICAL FEMINISM
SOCIALIST FEMINISM
THIRD WORLD FEMINISM

CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

LINGUISTIC PROJECTION OF FEMALE SUBJUGATION IN MARIAMA BA’S SO LONG A LETTER

PARALLELISM
SEMANTIC COMPOUNDING

CHAPTER FOUR

FEMALE CHARACTERISTIC LANGUAGE USE IN SO LONG A LETTER

CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

APPENDIX
BIBLOGAPHY