THE INCIDENCE OF REDUNDANCY IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ACCIDENTAL AND DELIBERATE SELECTIONS.
THE INCIDENCE OF REDUNDANCY IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ACCIDENTAL AND DELIBERATE SELECTIONS.
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2013-01
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ECHUFU-AGBO, ANE CYNTHIA
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Abstract
This work is centred on redundancy. It is a syntactic analysis of accidental and deliberate
selections in newspaper editorials. It looks at the redundancy present based on the
writer’s choice of linguistic units. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik (1985) Ellipsis
and Substitution (reduction) was used to expound varying levels of redundancy within the
selected texts. Hornings’s (2001) classification of redundancy in syntax was used to
categorize the selected texts. The study reveals that redundancy is a common feature of
the English language. It further reveals that redundancy is an efficient and effective tool
in contextualization. The study showed that accidental redundancy has as a predominant
feature, the absence of grammaticality. The research equally shows that some degree of
redundancy was intentionally used by the writers for the purpose of emphasis. The
research reveals that redundancy is an innate feature of language and performs a natural
function of passing the writer’s message yet leaving room for the reader’s interpretation.
Virtually every text is read with some kind of noise in the environment either the lights,
hand writing of the author, the size of the print, actual noise and or physical distractions
on the part of the reader. Redundancy helps the writer’s central message to be passed
within these situations though there is a huge difference between functional redundancy
and distributional redundancy. Functional redundancy looks at the role of individual
linguistic units in a sentence as against the entire text, while distributional redundancy
works with the relationship of sentences to other sentences within the text.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES
AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIANIGERIA
JANUARY,
Keywords
INCIDENCE, REDUNDANCY, NIGERIAN, NEWSPAPER, EDITORIALS, CONFLICT, BETWEEN, ACCIDENTAL, DELIBERATE, SELECTIONS.