Language and social reality in Mary Karooro Okurut's selected novels

Asasira's book is a Sociolinguistic analysis of Mary Karooro Okurut's selected novels. The author explores the relationship between language and society as portrayed in Karooro's fiction. She brilliantly analyses the language that reveals the social realities of the society about which Karooro writes as well as the socio-cultural influences on language in her novels. Her analysis of language focuses on such issues as social, political and moral depravity, gendered language, and folklore as crosscutting elements in the language of Karooro's fiction. Asasira's application of the Sociolinguistic theory to the study of Karooro's fiction is a unique approach to the study and analysis of literature. No doubt,her work is an unchallengeable masterpiece.

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Barbara Nancy Asasira holds a Bachelor's Degree in Arts(Literature and English Language)and a Masters Degree in Literature from Makerere University and Uganda Christian University,respectively.She has taught Literature and English Language at Bishop Stuart University in Uganda and Umutara Polytechnic University in Rwanda.

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Asasira's book is a Sociolinguistic analysis of Mary Karooro Okurut's selected novels. The author explores the relationship between language and society as portrayed in Karooro's fiction. She brilliantly analyses the language that reveals the social realities of the society about which Karooro writes as well as the socio-cultural influences on language in her novels. Her analysis of language focuses on such issues as social, political and moral depravity, gendered language, and folklore as crosscutting elements in the language of Karooro's fiction. Asasira's application of the Sociolinguistic theory to the study of Karooro's fiction is a unique approach to the study and analysis of literature. No doubt,her work is an unchallengeable masterpiece.