ETHNOPOETICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: TOWARDS THE ADVANCEMENT OF CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE STUDIES IN AFRIC

With Jerome Rothenberg's coining of the term "ethnopoetics" in 1968, a new window for the study of performance contexts and the complexities of language manipulations, particularly in so-called primitive civilizations and mainly oral environments, was opened. Furthermore, communication scholars such as Jerome Rothenberg, Dell Hymes, Dennis Tedlock, Barre Toelkin, and others used the term "ethnopoetics" to focus attention not only on the poetics of language use, but also on methods of translation and transcription that will portray the artful qualities of oral performances in traditional societies that have nearly become extinct or are endangered due to neglect. Oral African civilizations are obviously vulnerable to this threat since they are not prone to stability or fixity through writing. The "Ongian" philosophy of elementary and secondary education. As a result, secondary orality calls attention to the re-emergence and predominance of oral communication, particularly as digital media technology advances. As a result of these developments, efforts on the dialectic of ethnopoetics, particularly as it relates to the African context, should be reassessed and bolstered as a means of not only bridging the gap between orality and writing and highlighting the centrality of verbal art as a dynamic force in shaping linguistic structure and linguistic study, but also of helping to dispel what Bauman and Briggs have described as the anthropological and linguistic belief that "ae Ethnopoetics allows us to place a greater focus on the nuance of performance and performance situations. In order to create an African personality and oral literary aesthetics, students are immersed in a traditional African milieu.

This research is intended to be a two-part investigation. Part one will focus on ethnopoetics' concerns and their relevance to contextual performance studies, while part two will apply an ethnopoetics approach to the study of a Bakor oral narrative with the goal of proving that ethnopoetics thrives on a concerted effort to give credence to, concretize, and revitalise the personality profiles of otherwise disappearing Languages due to lack of sustained usage. As a result, it is an anthropological and linguistic assessment of so-called minority languages (of which the Bakor language group is one), as well as its cultural potentialities as evidenced by creative or poetic applications.

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