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People use talk in marked and varied ways to make sense of the world. This has constituted one ofthe major themes in humanistic and social scientific thought since the mid-twentieth century. Thisbook discusses the defining elements of the study of these themes (Discourse Analysis), throwsmore light on the narrative discourse showing its implications on the pedagogic role of translation.The major interest of this study lies in the belief that mere descriptive accounts of sentencesare insufficient in connected discourse. One needs to go beyond the surface realisation in order toattain the intended meaning. Thus, it is not enough to describe the internal structure of the elementsin a sentence or a discourse; the 'why' and the 'where' these elements should be used is equallyimportant. It is for this reason that the study draws from Functional Grammar and Relevancetheoretical frameworks to identify and characterize the constituents of the Nweh narrative genre andto portray the relevance of such a study in Discourse Analysis to translation, both as a discipline andas a pedagogic tool in Second Language Acquisition contexts.It is hoped that language teachers and translators will use the suggestions in this book toameliorate their performances.This study challenges Nweh speakers to work towards the standardization and developmentof the Nweh Language and invites other scholars to continue to promote research in Africanlanguages at large and Cameroon national languages in particular. It is through such commitmentthat the much-needed preservation of Cameroon's multilingual heritage can be achieved.Professor Gabriel Mba
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations and Symbols
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Discourse Analysis and the Narrative Genre1.0 Introduction
- 2 Form and Dramatic Intensity of Nweh Narratives
- 3 Linguistic Markers of Surface and Deep Structures ofNweh Narratives
- 4 Orientation and Types of Information in Nweh Narratives
- 5 Prominence in Nweh Narratives
- 6 Nweh Narrative Cohesive Devices
- 7 Nweh Narratives and Translation
- APPENDICES
- Nweh English Lexicon
- References
- Index