Reading Azodo Linguistically: Corpus, Criticism, and African Literary Discourse
Chidi Igwe | The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)
This paper offers a corpus-assisted linguistic study of selected English and French writings by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. It approaches her literary criticism not only as interpretation, but as a specialized authorial corpus whose terminology, lexical patterns, textual organization, and pragmatic …