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MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY

Authors: IDOWU Olubunmi

Publication Type: Journal article

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Stylistic studies have been done mostly to deal with the complexity of striking linguistic choices used in literary texts to define their various genres, dialects or registers. However, not many of such studies have examined the nature of modality and attitude to define the author in terms of his language and style. Therefore, this study investigates the linguistic concept of modality in Niyi Osundareâ€™s The Man walked Away and The wedding Car. They both exhibit the coexistence of the uncaring and oppressive rich with the hopelessly oppressed poor .This investigation explicates striking unique aspects of his literary style and reveal some sociological features of the dramatic text such as the recognizable contexts, participants, subject matters and the language functions. This approach projects Osundare as a social critic who exhibits apt, explicit and relevant use of language in addressing the social ills of the Nigerian society and defines him as his style. A stylistic analysis of random but purposively selected claims from the drama texts through the linguistic concept of modality will reveal the attitudes of the author and the Nigerian citizenry to prevalent socioeconomic and cultural issues of corruption, materialism, social injustice and oppression bad governance and unemployment in Nigeria. This study also provides the opportunities to match language structures through the parameters of modality with their social functions. Thus, the modality of obligation, usuality, probability and willingness reflect the opinion and attitude of the author and the society that he satirizes.

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IDOWU,O. . "MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY" 0, no (), (0000): 0-0.

IDOWU,O. and . (0000). MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY, 0 (), pp0-0.

IDOWUO, . MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY. 0000, 0 ():0-0.

IDOWU,Olubunmi , . "MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY", 0 . (0000) : 0-0.

I.Olubunmi , "MODALITY AND ATTITUDE IN OSUNDAREâ€™S TWO PLAYS: A STYLISTIC STUDY" vol.0, no., pp. 0-0, 0000.

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