Abstract
This article is anchored on the belief that poetry, just like any literary work, uses language as its medium. Thus, the article analyses poems from a linguistic viewpoint and diverges from the traditional literary analysis approach. It points out that poets, in most cases, do comply to linguistic rules or processes of a particular language used in poems although in several instances they may violate for literary purposes. The study presents how Amri Abedi complies and violates Swahili language phonological rules and literary motives for compliance and violation. Generally, the study is a result of qualitative research that was guided by the generative theory. Data was collected through text collection, transcriptions, analysis, administration of questionnaires, and interviews.
Recommended Citation
Samwel, Method
(2022)
"Linguistic Analysis of Swahili Traditional Poetry: A Survey of Phonological Processes in Diwani ya Amri Abedi,"
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences: Vol. 10:
No.
1, Article 6.
DOI: 10.56279/jhss/3
Available at:
https://commons.udsm.ac.tz/jhss/vol10/iss1/6