EXPLORING THE DEPICTIONS OF CONVERSATION DOMINANCE IN ADONG’S SILENT VOICES.
This paper investigates depictions of conversation dominance in selected conversations of the literary text- Silent Voices to underscore female dominance as evidenced in the use of commands, declaratives, and interrogatives. It is a qualitative study that employs Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL...
| Publicado en: | Igwebuike Journal: An African Journal of Arts & Humanities Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 13 - 24 |
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Tansian University, Umunya, NIigeria
Mar2025
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