This therefore attests to the words of Izevbaye (1981) that fictional names are taken from the actual names in use and that names in African setting, are carefully constructed 'in a semantico-syntactic sense to manifest specific meanings' (Oyeleye, 1985, p. Written by Dickinson Mendin, summary of the Gods are not to Blame. The real names have the highest frequency of eleven (46%) among others. Download Citation The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimis The Gods Are Not To Blame In 1968, at the onset of the most traumatic phase of the civil war in. Furthermore, the study has demonstrated that the text possesses taxonomy of onomastic resources which can be classified as: the role names, real names and nicknames. Thus the study has, pragmatically proved the efficacy of the speech act theory that in saying something, we do something else (Austin, 1962). Thus, through the application of the theory to the characters' names, we may establish that rather than mere entertaining his reader/audience, the playwright, through his use of names, oftentimes prescribes, informs, asserts and predicts among others. Summary Of The Gods Are Not To Blame By Ola Rotimi - Literature - Nairaland Summary Of The Gods Are Not To Blame By Ola Rotimi by TheReadyWriters: 12:26pm On The book the gods are not to blame is the dramatic tale of a man Odewale born with a destiny he tried to run away from. All the major characters' names in the text are given quantitative and qualitative analysis, based on the pragmatic principle of speech acts by Austin (1962). The study takes an onomastic approach to the exploration of Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame. This study is an attempt at filling this gap. Several studies have been carried out on Ola Rotimi's works using different literary and linguistic criticisms to the exclusion of the author's onomastic resources.

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