The Effectiveness of Cohesion to Portray Child Abuse in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: A Corpus Analysis
| المصدر: | المجلة الدولية لدراسات المرأة والطفل |
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| الناشر: | جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية |
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | Hasab El-Nabi, Esraa Aly (Author) |
| المجلد/العدد: | ع4 |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: |
مصر |
| التاريخ الميلادي: |
2021
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| الشهر: | أكتوبر |
| الصفحات: | 1 - 29 |
| ISSN: |
2682-4361 |
| رقم MD: | 1313941 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| قواعد المعلومات: | EduSearch, HumanIndex |
| مواضيع: | |
| كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
Corpus Analysis | TAACO "2.0.4" | Cohesion | Semantic Overlap | Connectives | Child Abuse | Violence | Toni Morrison
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| رابط المحتوى: |
عدد مرات التحميل
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| المستخلص: |
This paper is a corpus-based study of the quality of cohesion and coherence in Toni Morrison’s "God Help the Child" (2015). The aim of the study is to evaluate the quality of cohesion in the novel, and to test to what extent coherent texts can reveal the author’s themes. This is achieved via adopting the theoretical framework of Halliday and Hasan (1976) model of cohesion. Analysis of cohesion is carried out using automatic calculations processed by a computer software (TAACO 2.0.4). The analysis is accomplished through the focus on TTR (Type Token Ratio) indices testing diversity of parts of speech, connectives, semantic overlap through adjacent sentences and paragraphs, and the occurrence of synonyms. The study adopts a quantitative approach via testing the quantity of parts of speech, and how they affect the conveyed message of the writer. Besides, it adopts a qualitative approach through the investigation of grammatical and lexical cohesion. Throughout the analysis, special attention is devoted to how cohesive ties enrich textuality and support the intention of the writer that is portraying violence and abuse against dark-skinned African American children and women that needs to be voiced out. The study concluded that Morrison is able to focus on child abuse through her coherent text. Thus, this study presents a contribution to solve prevailing problems regarding racial discrimination against dark-skinned children and adds new dimensions to shed the light on the problem. |
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| ISSN: |
2682-4361 |
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