![]() ![]() Findings indicate that the use of semiotic signs in the novels underscores not only the themes of corruption, materialism and negation of African traditional values in post-independence Ghanaian society but also how human struggles for existence in a society that tends to submerge values and morals result in the isolation of the major characters in the two novels. ![]() The study adopts Charles Sanders Peirce‘s semiotic theory as analytical framework and argues that language is a process of signs and that the signification system presents a clear view of communication of meaning in texts. ![]() In the light of the above, this study undertakes a semiotic analysis of Armah‘s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Fragments with a view to showing how the semiotic system of the novels can be interpreted against the background of codes that may be different from those intended by the author. ![]() However, existing studies have focused essentially on the literary interpretations of these signs at the detriment of their semiotic implications. It is a known fact that Armah‘s novels are replete with signs. This paper is a study of the use of signs in Ayi Kwei Armah‘s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Fragments. ![]()
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