ABSTRACT

This paper duels on women’s lamentation over male subjugation. Women’s lamentation over male subjugation has in recent years filtered into a determination to abnegate sexism. With this stand, their former conciliatory position becomes superseded by a current of revolt against man and tradition as highlighted through semantic compounding and linguistic parallelism in So Long a Letter.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY RESEARCH QUESTIONS HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY SCOPE OF THE STUDY LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW

LANGUAGE AND FEMINISM THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF MALE AND FEMALE LANGUAGE MEANING OF FEMINISM THEORIES OF FEMINISM LIBERAL FEMINISM MARXIST FEMINISM RADICAL FEMINISM SOCIALIST FEMINISM THIRD WORLD FEMINISM

CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

LINGUISTIC PROJECTION OF FEMALE SUBJUGATION IN MARIAMA BA’S SO LONG A LETTER

PARALLELISM SEMANTIC COMPOUNDING

CHAPTER FOUR

FEMALE CHARACTERISTIC LANGUAGE USE IN SO LONG A LETTER

CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

APPENDIX BIBLOGAPHY