THE INCIDENCE OF REDUNDANCY IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ACCIDENTAL AND DELIBERATE SELECTIONS.

dc.contributor.authorECHUFU-AGBO, ANE CYNTHIA
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-06T09:21:10Z
dc.date.available2014-02-06T09:21:10Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.descriptionA 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,en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/374
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectINCIDENCEen_US
dc.subjectREDUNDANCYen_US
dc.subjectNIGERIANen_US
dc.subjectNEWSPAPERen_US
dc.subjectEDITORIALSen_US
dc.subjectCONFLICTen_US
dc.subjectBETWEENen_US
dc.subjectACCIDENTALen_US
dc.subjectDELIBERATEen_US
dc.subjectSELECTIONS.en_US
dc.titleTHE INCIDENCE OF REDUNDANCY IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ACCIDENTAL AND DELIBERATE SELECTIONS.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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