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Abstract:

This long essay proposes an analytic and a cross-analytic review of the language choice of environment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The novel tells the story of a character, simply called “the Man” who is surrounded by corruption in a corrupt West African state, and how he (the Man) struggles to keep out of the overpowering mess. It also presents the story of a man’s loneliness and anguish at the physical and social filth around him, and about which he could do little or nothing. He does not only encounter the craze for corruption in the bus, the office, among friends, among the masses and at the social places, but also within his family; there is also the blood strain of corruption in his wife and his mother-in-law who wish to rise up to the moment of the order of the day, “corruption”.

However, the lexico-semantic language choice employed by the author is more of foreign than parochial, which is embellished with coarse, nauseating and vulgar expressions, just to mention but a few. In totality, thus, Ayi Kwei Armah wrote a powerful, well-structured novel which is rightfully rated among classics of modern African prose. He couples chapters where the story is gripping with reflexives; and also philosophical chapters where the story struggles a little. But when the tale recovers, stronger and bursting with life, the less-than-a-200-page novel portrays a writer who is not ashamed of telling tales about the rot and decay of his society – elements of reality – in a grand fictional modernist style.

Table of Content:

Title
Page------------ i
Declaration--------------------- ii
Certification------------ iii
Dedication------------- i
Acknowledgements------- v
Abstract----------------------- vi
Table of Contents --------------- vii

CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL

INTRODUCTION
1.0 Preamble -------------------- 1

1.1 Background to the Study ------------------------------ 1

1.2 Author’s Biography ---------------- 5

1.3 Statement of the Problem ----------------------------- 6

1.4 Purpose of the Study------------------ 6

1.5 Scope and Delimitation of the Study---------------------- 7

1.6 Data Description --------------------------- 8

1.7Research Methodology-------------------- 10

1.8 Significance of the Study-------------------- 10


CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW

2.0 Introduction----------------- 12

2.1 The Environmental Factors Language Competence and Performance ----------- 12

2.1.1 Language Acquisition & Learning --------------------------14

2.1.2 Language Comprehension---------------------- 15

2.2 Stylistics and Style: Definition and Domain ------------- 17

2.3 Levels of Stylistic Methodology in this Research----------- 19

2.4 African Literature as Characterised by the African Sensibilities ---------- 20

2.5 The Canonisation of Modernism in African Literature --------------- 22

2.6 Armah’s Socio-Political and Stylo-Literary Consciousness on the Disillusionment of the Post-Independence Ghana Society -------------------- 24

2.7 Characterising the Stylistic Implicatures of Societal Facts in Armah’s First Three Novels--------------------- 25


CHAPTER THREE
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

3.0 Introduction------------- 27

3.1 Succinct Summary and Review of Armah’s The Beautyful Ones… --------------- 27

3.2 Language Choice of Environment in Armah’s The Beautyful Ones… --------- ----- 31

3.3 Stylo-Linguistic Analysis of the Language Use in Armah’s The Beautyful Ones… 32

3.3.1 The Use of Progressive Tense--------- 32