Proverbs as Cultural Semiotics in Soyinka's Death and The King's Horseman.
The paper examines proverbs used as cultural semiotics in Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (DKH) by adopting Sander Pierce's (1931) concept of semiotic, Bach and Harnish's (1979) "Mutual Contextual Beliefs" and Crystal's (1987) context as our theoretical framework. This research is significan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 115 - 126 |
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