Pragmatic Functions of Crisis - Motivated Proverbs in Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame

The paper examines the pragmatic functions that crisis-motivated proverbs play in Ola Rotimi's The Gods is not to Blame. It picks its inspiration from the little attention hitherto paid, in the linguistic literature, to both the specific proverbs that are spurred by crisis in the play and the p...

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Main Author: Akin Odebunmi
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2008-01-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/530