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...

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Published in:	Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 115 - 126
Main Author:	Aremu, Moses Adebayo
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of Pan African Studies Sep2015
Subjects:	Death & King's Horseman (Play) Soyinka, Wole, 1934- Proverbs Semiotics of theater Symbolism in literature
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