Referring closely to any text that you have studied on the 3rd year literature course. Identify and discuss the prominent linguistic features contributed to its message. NAMALA LILLIANE, KABATONGOLE MARGRET AND AUJO JOSELINE AKABWAI

Linguistic structure approach attempts to lay down a vigorous metrology for analysis of any language.If employs language as its basic raw material e.g the words in songs language, charts, drama, poetry .This approach is based on the assumption that the meaning of a literary text is embedded in a linguistic structure i.e . (i) Writers manipulate the structure of language to communicate. (ii) Language being a system of communication used by a particular community consisting of words in a structured and conventional way. (iii) They work within all the rules of language to communicate. Therefore being a system comprises of different components such as; a. Phonology; system of linguistic sound structure. b. Morphology; is a structure of words. c. Syntax; is a structure of phrases and sentences. lexis also known as diction refers to the choice of words. Semantics refers to the meaning of words and phrases. d. Pragmatics; is how speakers or writers use language to communicate. e. Socio-dynamics: refers to the change in the meaning of words over time. f. Graphology refers to the physical manifestation of language. g. Phonetics refers to speech sounds. The linguistic structural approach emphasizes the fact that literary analysis,interpretation should pay attention to different levels of language and how these contribute to the articulation of writers meaning.   An extract from song of lawino. The woman with whom I share My husband Ocol is no longer in love with the old type; He is in love with a modern girl. The name of the beautiful one is Clementine Brother, when you see Clementine! The beautiful one aspires To look like a white woman; Her lips are red-hot Like glowing charcoal, She resembles the wild cat That has dipped the its mouth in blood, Her mouth is like raw yaws It looks like an open ulcer; Like the mouth of a field! Line dusts powder on her face And it looks so pale; She resembles the wizard Getting ready for the midnight dance. She dusts the ash-dirt all over her face And when little sweat Begins to appear on her body She looks like the guinea fowl! 1. lexis: the choice of words deployed by P’bitek the message, humorous and building the conflict between the speaker and the accused.FOR instance, he uses pronouns such as her, she, he and proper nouns such as Ocol and Clementine to identity the characters in the text. “ocol is no longer in love with the old type; he is in love with a modern girl The name of the beautiful one is Clementine….” As readers, we can easily relate with and a rouse our curiosity to know what exactly Lawino intends to say by identifying her characters Ocol and Clementine 4. According to graphology as the physical manifestation of language. The punctuation of a sentence determines which type of a sentence it will be that is to say interrogative, declarative and exclamatory. Okot Bitek uses all these types in the poem so as to bring out different significances. This is as seen below; The full stop is employed to show the conclusion of an idea. The poet puts this down when the speaker who is a woman is describing the other woman with whom she shares her husband’s with and says; “He is in love with a modern girl.” The full stop creates a pause .This sentence clearly shows us that the speaker has confirmed that her husband loves another woman who is a modern girl. The semi-colon extends an explanation and this vividly seen in the extraction poem. ‘The woman with whom I share my husband’ The ideas being raised in the poem are further explained in order to cause emphasis. For example through the illustration below that states. To look like a white woman; Her lips are red-hot Like glowing charcoal” .The exclamation marks used in the poem which is extract from song of Lawino are to bring out the amazement, a astonishment, wonder and shock that the husband makes over her. For example she assets that the mouth of the modern girl Clementine is like raw yaws and looks like an open ulcerr after saying all this she says like the mouth of a field! In stanza eight we note that she still does the same when claims that she looks like the guinea fowl. The powerful employment of short and long sentences cannot be left due it’s great significance in portraying the message in the poem. For instance the short sentences are mainly used In apiece of writing and in this case the poem. The long sentences are to explain more and illustrate the point. This is evidenced below when the speaker clearly puts it down that, ‘she resembles the wizard getting ready for the midnight dance.” Run on line for emphasis and give more information. Semantics refers to the meaning of words or phrases in a text. Semantics is believed to have both the denotative and the connotative meaning whereby the denotative meaning refers to the meaning of words or surface meaning and the connotative meaning refers to the literary meaning of the text.(authors intention) Semantics greatly contributes to the message in the text with whom she shares my husband in the following ways; ‘The beautiful one aspire to look like a white woman ,’ means that Clementine is bleaching herself. Her lips are red-hot like glowing charcoal means that she has used red lipstick. …Her mouth is like raw yaws; show that the mouth is disguisting just like the raw yaws. Further the meaning of the text is to show us the conflict which is dramatized by Lawino to enable her advance her against European culture. Denotative meaning is portrayed with the descriptive word Lawino uses to describe her co-wife. “her lips are-hot like glowing charcoal. her mouth is like raw yaws.” These words are demeaning and make Clementine look like a white woman. Yet connotatively, the words are simply highlightening the conflict and her argument against European culture. this gives us the authorial point of view the extreme colonialism an Africans. Some adhere for aspire to look white women. Phonetically , the extract presents several tones from a calm to a contemptuous tone. Brother, when you see then the criticism gathers momentum and builds upto a crescendo as we get horrible images in the process of which Clementine is disfigured from a beautiful one to an evitable guinea fowl.