ANALYSING IDEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW IN BEN AKPONINE-SAMUEL’S A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL APPROACH.

Abstract

This article is devoted to the exploration of the ideological point of view in Akponine-Samuel‟s A Holiday to Remember. The concept of ideology is understood as the system of beliefs, values, and categoriesthat guides the way an interactant views the world. Through this system, language has an experiential or ideational function realized through the transitivity patterns of the grammar which has for basis the contextual properties of field. In order to conduct successfully this study, two extracts have been selected from the novella and a quantitative and qualitative analysis has been made of them. This has helped to uncover how the different transitivity patterns interact to convey children‟s ideological point of view not only about how religion has become a hot bed of boredom but also about criminality. The work concludes that the literary work unveils the socio-criticism position of the narrator and as a matter of fact, it is suggested that Africans should find resources in their institutions to overcome these social flaws