Language Use And Ideology In Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears Of The Delta And Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky

Akinleye Ayinuola Ojo, Salami Azeez Abdullahi

Abstract

The works of Nigerian writers, particularly of the third generation writers have been examined from pragmatic, stylistics, socio-linguistic, and historical perspectives with inadequate scholarly attention paid to eco-critical ideologies in their works, especially in Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky. This study, therefore, examines how ideologies are lexically constructed in Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky to reveal discursive issues that characterize Nigerian eco-critical works. This study adopted Systemic Functional Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Descriptive Eco-criticism as theoretical frameworks. Two Nigerian eco-critical writers are purposefully selected, namely Ibiwari Ikiriko and Stephen Kekeghe. One of their literary texts, which is ideologically driven is selected. The anthologies are Oily Tears of the Delta by Ibiwari Ikiriko and Rumbling Sky by Stephen Kekeghe. Eco-critical writers are committed to environmental revolutions. The study has revealed that eco-critical issues are realities in Nigeria.

Language Use And Ideology In Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears Of The Delta And Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky

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ideologies, eco-criticism, Nigerian writers, Oily Tears of the Delta, Rumbling Sky

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