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 With this stand, their former conciliatory position becomes superseded by a current of revolt against man and tradition as highlighted through semantic compounding and linguistic parallelism in So Long a Letter.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.
