LINGUISTIC DEFAMILIARIZATION: A REAPPRAISAL OF THINGS FALL APART THROUGH THE STRUCTURALIST CHARACTER THEORY

This paper applies the Structuralist Character Theory to 33 extracts of inner experience from Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (1958) with view showing that some narratorial judgments about two central characters, namely Okonkwo and Obierika, seriously lack textual evidence need revising. Not only does succeed in proving, drawing on statistics mental behavioural processes, Okonkwo, man said ‘not be a thought’ ends up being at least 23 times more so than one so. Though this injustice can accounted for by narrator’s ideological clash or complicity either character, researcher invites language scientists defamiliarize, submit other works similar analyses avoid falling into dangers linguistic familiarization. He strongly believes, quote prominent linguist, “After analysis, what seemed flat becomes rounded; was rounded still has dimensions added it” (Halliday, quoted Cummings & Simmons, 1983: viii).
 
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