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Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
University of Cape Coast
Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Foregrounding the Verbal Process: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Adichie’s Zikora (2020) Samuel Kwesi Nkansah; Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
Publisher : Pusat Studi Bahasa dan Publikasi Ilmiah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2250

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Literature mirrors societies. While the plethora of studies on African literature, spanning from the early 21st century, have discussed literary texts in their political spectrums, recent studies using transitivity analysis have offered new and objective understandings of these novels. Nonetheless, most transitivity analyses have been fixated on characterization, style and themes. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to use corpus procedures to examine the transitivity of verbal process types in Adichie’s recent novel Zikora. Assisted by corpus linguistics, the study used transitivity as an analytical framework to analyse the verbal process in the text. From the analysis, three major findings are reported from the discussion. First, through the verbal processes, the Adichie deconstructed the myriad suffering and subjugation of women through dialogic means and taking responsibility for their livelihood. Second, the foregrounded verbal processes reflect the attribution of processes to other characters than accounting for the literary effects projected through the clauses. Finally, while the writer used the projected clauses to attribute the verbal processes to others, the dominant use of the first-person mode of narration identifies a sharing of roles to account for the writing of the literary work. Following these findings, the study extends the scholarship on literary stylistics and provides implications for further research in other genres of (African) literature.
Cultural appropriation in Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc. (2014): A corpus stylistic analysis Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.62365

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This study employs a corpus stylistics approach to examine the themes of cultural appropriation and migration in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc. Using Wmatrix software, the study explored semantic domains to reveal the novel’s thematic and stylistic features. The study identified two dominant themes: religious and cultural commodification in a globalised world, and economic disparities and post-colonial power dynamics. These themes point to the tension between traditional religious values and the commercialisation of cultural heritage. The analysis also highlighted the economic motivations behind migration and the power imbalances in the global art market. The study contributes to the growing field of corpus stylistics in African literature. It concludes that Ndibe’s novel offers a critique of how globalisation and capitalism transform sacred cultural heritage into commodities, raising questions about cultural identity preservation in a post-colonial context.
Co-Authors Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu