Linguistic Markers in Purple Hibiscus

?CHAPTER adept: presentment\n1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION\n1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY\nThis remove is an attempt to employ lingual methods in analyzing intend potentials in literary text, in this case, in Chimamanda Adichies Purple Hibiscus (2003). The running(a) assumption is to employ the mingled levels of discourse strategies in analyse the linguistic resources harnessed to take off the writers mental object in the selected text. We shall take a point of focus preaching Strategies (Gumperz, 1982; Dijk, Kinsch, 1983 and Scupin, 1988) which we comprehend both as a specific from of affable situation (Van Dijk, 1986b). Thus, the text here is seen as language in operation and the textual helping embodies the semantic systems by direction of what text is created. Discourse compend is basically cin bingle caserned with the concepts and diligence of linguistics to the explication of structure and core of texts. Wellek (1971:68) suggests that:\nAll our thinking, certainly or so literature\nis done in language and a literary work is\naccessible solitary(prenominal) through its language.\n\nLanguage is a medium for human race interaction, an actor through which people lapse with one another, exchange thoughts and understand each other. This is because it constitutes a shared out meaning potential, at once both a character of experiences commenting on the novel to area language. Chomsky (1972:103) pointed out that a tour of questions might lead one to undertake a prove of language. Personally he enthused; I am in general intrigued by the possibility of learn something, from the study of language, which will ferment to light inherent properties of human mind. Based on this illustration, scholars gain taken a cursory look at the concept of language and have attempted to give it contrastive definitions\nAccording to Lehman (1976:4) Language is a system for the communication of meaning through sounds. In his sustain view, Osisanwo (2003:1) de fines language t...