AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHORIC EXPRESSIONS AGAINST THE FEMALE GENDER: A STUDY OF SEFI ATTA’S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME

Nnenna Roseline Uche-Okoro

Abstract


This paper critically analyses the metaphoric expressions against the female gender in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come. Metaphor is part of our everyday life and it is a matter of language, thought and action. However, Linguistic expressions being containers of meaning equate two things that are not the same even the state of mind. History reveals that the metaphoric expressions against the female are geared towards their tainting, humiliation and oppression. This work seeks to unveil some of them and sensitize the female gender to ignore them and be the best they are created to be. The researcher hinged on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a model that takes account of the social context and explores the links between textual structures and their function in social interaction to analyze the metaphoric expressions in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come. The findings show that expressions against the female gender are culturally and socially inculcated.

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