Meet YUNUS ALADE SALMAN, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Textual Criticism, Especially Arabic Narratology And Speech Communication
Lecturer I
Foreign Languages
At the Foreign Languages department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: My Research Interest Area Is Contemporary Literary Criticism Specifically, Arabic Narratology
Description: I am inclined to Arabic literary criticism, particularly, the type of criticism which deals with a work of literature as something which stands free from extrinsic relations to the author/poet, or to the audience, or to the social or literary milieu. This objective criticism describes the literary product as a self-sufficient and autonomous object, or else as a world-in-itself, which is to be contemplated as its own end, and to be analyzed and judged solely by intrinsic criteria such as complexity, coherence, equilibrium, integrity, and the interrelations of its component elements. A major brand of this criticism is structuralist criticism which - inspired by F. De Saussure s structuralist linguistic insights and the works of the Russian formalists - concentrates on the immanent properties of the work itself, its in-built components that work in concert as a structural whole, a self-contained system which effectively functions as meaning-spinner independently of its author. An important branch of structuralist criticism is narratology, which, working in collaboration with poetics, semiotics, and genre theory, analyzes both content and form of narratives . This contemporary current of narrative study enjoys a catholic cultivation in the West and in the Arab world including North Africa. However, Arabic critics in other parts of Africa, especially Nigeria, seem not to be awake to this development in the academic world. As an Arabic critic, I have not only developed a penchant for Arabic narratology but have also decided as it obtains overseas - to make a career in it.
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Arabic Narratology as an area in Contemporary Arabic Literary Criticism) | Foreign Languages, Lagos State University | 2018 |
Language functions in a typical Arabic-scripted Friday sermon: a Roman Jakobson’s speech communication study.
Analysis of Friday sermons following the guidance of external approaches have contributed significantly to academic discoveries of the social and religious significance of sermons. However, such analyses have ignored some other critical aspects of the sermons which internal approaches take cognizance of. While the contributions of external critical approaches to sermons remain appreciated, this paper sets to go beyond the external considerations to reveal some discourse techniques normally employed by the preacher in shaping the content form of a given sermon, especially the language functions employed in foregrounding speech components.With the objectives of exploring this speech communicative techniques, this paper sets out using the observation method of data collection and descriptive method of analysis, which adopted the speech communicative theory of Roman Jakobson and found out that a typical sermon contains the six Jakobson’s speech factors and their corresponding language functions with greater concentration on one of them, which becomes the main factor and carries the type-name of the sermon. Subsequently, this study contributes to research on Friday sermons by revealing their inner communicative components and which sermon type each of them is.
YUNUS SALMAN is a Lecturer I at the Department of Foreign Languages
YUNUS has a Ph.D in Arabic Narratology as an area in Contemporary Arabic Literary Criticism from Foreign Languages, Lagos State University
