Linguistic Metarepresentation in East African Poetry: a Relevance Theory Approach
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2016-10Author
Kimori, Emily K
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This project aims at investigating metarepresentation in East African poetry. It majorly focuses on identification of metarepresentations in line with poetry semantics. This involves an explanation on how poets use various levels of metarepresentations to present their world of experiences which are presented to us as themes. Pragmatics and metarepresentations play a crucial role in the interpretation of the meaning of the poems sampled. The study starts with an introduction to poetry which gives an overview of how poets exploit concrete objects in their experiences hence metarepresentations which in turn enable the reader to understand their worlds. This gives us the background to the study and the statement of the problem. The study further demonstrates how explicatures and implicatures in the poems are interpreted in their context of use through shared knowledge and beliefs between the poet and the reader in the light of relevance theory(RT) by Sperber and Wilson,(1986,1995).The study explicates the concept of metarepresentation as a model that models the representational relationship between a model and the environment. This is followed by observations, findings, conclusion and recommendations in the last part of this study.
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University of Nairobi
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