GENERAL CONCLUSION
At the end of this work devoted to discourse analysis in Buchi
Emeheta's the Slave Girl, it is necessary to say that our main
preoccupation was to find out Buchi Emecheta's techniques in the handling of
English language. To complete our target, we have divided this work into two
main parts.
In the first part, we have dealt with the narrative analysis
of The Slave Girl. Here, we have first analysed the style Buchi
Emecheta uses in this novel to express her ideas. Then, we have examined the
different literary techniques found in this novel. In Fact, its literary
writing seems to be a mere aesthetics of the mixed literature for it brings out
the factors of Western and Negro African artistic creation. It comes out that
Buchi Emecheta's novel remains near African society realities in the sense that
she uses style which is mingled with local words and oral traditional
expressions.
The second part of our work was therefore devoted to the
language functions and the linguistic forms. First of all, we have analysed the
different aspects of the language functions. In this chapter, we have studied
the role or the interpretation of characters' way of addressing speech in
taking into account of the relationships among them. From this analysis,
indeed, it comes out from this study that the author expresses the emotive
sentences and non-verbal communication words to provide readers with the mental
insight which pilot them to a high layer of interpretation. In this respect,
the discourse is most affected by talking implying effectives, emotions or a
command. Then we have been concerned with the syntactic and semantic analysis.
In fact, in the first chapter we have demonstrated that the sentence structure
of The Slave Girl is most composed of the simple sentences than the
complex ones. Moreover, we have asserted that Buchi Emecheta's novel comprises
long sentences which do not allow readers to really handle the meaning of them.
Finally, in the second chapter, we have dealt with the analysis of lexical
items. It comes to the end of this chapter that Buchi Emecheta sometimes
misuses words.
All by all, it is fitting to underline that Buchi Emecheta
through her writing fulfils the features which characterizes the Negro-African
novelistic creation. In fact, she mixes Western and African realities to show
her double inheritance.
It is important to note that the discourse in Buchi Emecheta's
The Slave Girl comprises several factors characterizing oral
literature. Therefore, it is difficult for non-native readers to handle the
real significance of the novel.
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· In the Ditch. London: Allison and Busby
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· Second-Class Citizen. Allison and Busby Ltd.,
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· The Bride Price. New York: George Brazziler,
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· The Joys of Motherhood. New York: George
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· The slave Girl. New York: George Braziller,
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· Nowhere to Play. London: Allison and Busby,
1990.
· The Moonlight Bride. Oxford University Press,
1980.
· The Wrestling Match. Oxford University Press,
1980.
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