The Discourse Functions of Antonyms in Faceless by Amma Darko

This article investigates the discourse functions of antonymy in Amma Darko’s Faceless. It also explores principles that govern order antonymous pairs The study is motivated by an observation, based on corpus data, certain co-occur written and they perform various functions. There argument tend to be used a preferred sequence sentence. Data was collected from Faceless, novel about plight street children Ghana. authors argue often within one word class these antonym function differently highlight some themes novel. novel, influenced following principles: idiomaticity non-gender, chronology positivity. Keywords: antonymy, pair, &