Ideational representation of prostitution and social meaning in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

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dc.contributor.authorKamalu, Ikenna
dc.contributor.authorEjezie, Blessing O
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-17T06:42:22Z
dc.date.available2020-01-17T06:42:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso journal, Volume 8 Number 2, Jan 2016, p. 108 –116en_US
dc.description.abstractPrevious studies on Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (OBSS henceforth) have focused mainly on the thematic concerns of the text – prostitution, sex trafficking and sex slavery, without paying considerable attention to the role of language in the projection of the phenomena. This study critically examines ideation as a linguistic tool for inferring or retrieving the social meanings encoded in the text under study. This study also explores how the resources of language can be used in establishing social and power relations in discourse encounters and how their manifestation in literary discourse represents social experiences in real life situations. Working within the tenets of M.A.K. Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study engages in the project of using insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and sociolinguistics to ascertain the mental and physical state of the victims of sex slavery, the attitude of their clients, and that of other powerful social actors that inhabit the creative universe of the text under consideration. The significance of this study lies in its demonstration of how the writer’s linguistic choices bring about an understanding of the social experiences and ideology that underlie the text under studyen_US
dc.identifier.citationKamalu, I. and Ejezie, B.O., 2016. Ideational representation of prostitution and social meaning in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(2), pp.108-116.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1896
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-64d4c8132
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectprostitutionen_US
dc.subjectsex traffickingen_US
dc.subjectsex slaveryen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectChika Unigween_US
dc.titleIdeational representation of prostitution and social meaning in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Streeten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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