Abstract
M.A. (African Languages)
The aim of this study is to endeavour to analyze the language and
style in W.T. Matlala's Molato mpeng and Montshepetsa bosego.
The study will focus on how the writer uses language, how he
assumed a particular manner of narrating by meticulously using
a mixture of his dialect and standard Northern Sotho. This is
done in the introductory chapter.
In the second chapter of our study we tried to develop a
stylistic framework whose purpose is to inform the analysis of
Matlala's two novels.
In the third chapter of this study, an analysis of Matlala's two
prose fictions will be undertaken. The choice of words,
sentences and paragraphs will be analyzed.
The fourth chapter of this work, will attempt to show how the
writer has used imagery, proverbs, idioms and dialogue as other
stylistic features to promote understanding and to bring images
of the mind to the life of the literary work.
Chapter five is the conclusion - we will look at how Matlala has
synthesized all the stylistic features in communicating his
emotions, attitudes, thoughts as well as giving freshness and
vigour to his works.