Language deviation in poetry: A case of english textbooks of grade seven and eight

Abstract

The present study entitled "Language deviation in poetry: A case of English Text book of Grade Seven and Eight" aimed at exploring the language deviation in poetry of English text books grade seven and eight. The research had three objectives. First objective was to describe the language deviation in poems with reference to phonological and lexical deviation (aphesis, apocope, syncope, prosthesis, epenthesis, paragoge and antisthescon, coinage, eccentrically affixed words, eccentrically compound words, functional conversion, archaisms and letter deleted words). The second objective was to describe the language deviation in poems with reference to semantic deviation (simile, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche). And the third objective was to find out most frequent used deviation in poems and to point out the pedagogical implications of this study. To achieve these objectives, I followed the textual analysis of ten English poems of basic level taught in the community school. Ten poems were the primary sources of data and some literary books were the secondary sources of data. During this study, I collected data, coded, analyzed, tabulated, interpreted from quantitatively (observation) by the use of devices of phonological, lexical and semantic deviation. There are different types of language deviations in poetry. Some of the deviations found in the study are paragoge, syncope, eccentrically affixed words, eccentrically compound words, letter deleted words, Functional conversation, simile, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche. There were five chapters to find out the results of the study. Chapter one deals with introduction. It includes the general back ground of the study, poetry and viii

its elements, the statement of the problem, the objectives of the study, the rationale of the study, the research questions, the significance of the study, the delimitation of the study and the definition of the key terms used in the study. Chapter two deals with review of related literature and conceptual framework. This chapter includes review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study. This chapter includes design of the study, the sources of data, population and sample population, sampling procedures, research tool for data collection and process of data collection and analysis. Chapter four deals with results and discussions. It includes the results( paragoge, syncope ,aphesis are found as phonological deviation, eccentrically affixed words, eccentrically compounded words, coinage and functional conversation are found as lexical deviation and all the semantic deviations simile, metaphor, synecdoche and metonymy are found ) and discussions. Chapter five deals with summary, conclusion and implications. This chapter includes summary, conclusion and implication and the sub topic covers implications in policy level, practice level and further research. References and appendices are in the concluding part of the thesis.