A functional stylistics interpretation of Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighter

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dc.contributor.authorNtinda, Loise Panduleni
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-29T12:36:48Z
dc.date.available2020-06-29T12:36:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-02
dc.descriptionTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Supervisor: Prof Haileleul Zeleke Woldemariam Co-Supervisor: Dr Niklaas Frederick 21 February 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThe study explored the meaning conveyed by the use of different metafunctions of language in Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighter. The study, through the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory, describes the different functions of the three metafunctions of language as used in the two selected autobiographies. The study investigated how the authors of the selected autobiographies implement the ideational functions of language in line with modification, apposition and coordination. It explored the use of interpersonal functions of language in line with mood, modality and person. It has also examined how coherence is built by making use of the textual function of language in the two autobiographies. The study identified the use of specified elements of different metafunctions from the two texts and examines how these elements give multiple meanings on the basis of the readers’ judgments and interpretations. The study is a qualitative research because the researcher was interested in understanding the meaning that the authors constructed. The analysis of the two texts was done by using a content analysis method. The study found that both Amathila and Ekandjo make use of the specified elements of the three metafunctions of language to express their intents through their stories. It revealed that ideational elements are mainly used to provide extra information and to create connections in these stories. The authors use interpersonal elements to express their own view point of things and they use textual elements to create logic and build coherence in the autobiographies. The study concluded that to understand written stories, meaning should be explored and basically understood to the full examination of the different elements of the three metafunctions used by authors. The study recommends that the implementation of the three metafunctions of language in Namibian texts should be widely explored.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNtinda, L. P. (2020). A functional stylistics interpretation of Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighter [Masters thesis, Namibia University of Science and Technology].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na/jspui/handle/10628/715
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNamibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)en_US
dc.subjectMetafunctions of languageen_US
dc.subjectideational functionsen_US
dc.subjectinterpersonal functionsen_US
dc.subjecttextual functionsen_US
dc.subjectSystemic Functional Linguisticen_US
dc.subjectinterpretationen_US
dc.subjectautobiographies and functional stylisticsen_US
dc.titleA functional stylistics interpretation of Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighteren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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