LANGUAGE AND GENDER

This book undertakes a feminist stylistic analysis of Margaret Ogola''s novel The River and the Source. Ogola examines the changing roles of women in an inevitably changing environment and this text identifies and analyzes the efforts in terms of language – the process types (material or mental), verb types (transitive or intransitive) and the participant roles (subject or object) of the characters- that portray the changing roles of women in society. It investigates how the Ogola''s transitivity choice integrates with her larger achievement in terms of theme and meaning.