A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Eyoh Etim’s Don’t Marry Angelica

This work attempts a lexico-semantic analysis of ‘Don’t Marry Angelica’ in order to reveal the author’s creative deployment language foreground his pre-determined intentions text. The study, which adopts Halliday’s Context Situation as theoretical framework, shows how author uses vast knowledge linguistic techniques and fecundity mental construct expose ills African society through use figures speech, connotations, direct translations coinages among others text develop themes poverty, under-development criticism against stigmatization adoption, abortion other social practices women children society, others.