A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OLA ROTIMI’S OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN

INTRODUCTION: The act of expressing oneself via the use of words is referred to as "discourse." Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is the study and analysis of written texts and spoken words to reveal the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality, and bias and how these sources are initiated, maintained, reproduced, and transformed within specific social, economic, political, and historical contexts. CDA is concerned with studying and analyzing written texts and spoken words to reveal the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality, and bias (Adekunle, 2022). CDA, along with other disciplines that are connected to it, makes an effort to unearth hidden meanings, such as the ideological burdens that are carried by language and the use of power. The study of language and discourses in social institutions may be done in a modern way using discourse analysis (CDA). It focuses on how social interactions, identity, knowledge, and power are produced via written and spoken texts in communities, schools, and classrooms. These settings include: communities, schools, and classrooms.

CDA's users will be more aware of, and able to characterize and deconstruct, vectors and effects in texts and semiotic materials in general that could otherwise stay uncritiqued and continue to wield power if they are not given this ability. In some ways, the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) movement may be compared to a wake-up call or a growing awareness of the coercive or anti-democratic impacts of the discourses that we live by. An explicit perspective is taken by critical discourse analyzers, and as a result, they seek to comprehend, expose, and eventually challenge social inequalities. In other words, the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) may be seen as a response to the prevailing formal paradigms of the 1960s and 1970s, which were often social or uncritical in nature.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ola Rotimi's "Our Husband has Gone Mad Again" is the primary emphasis of this endeavor. As a result, the emphasis of this chapter is on the reason for the research, the extent of the investigation, the rationale for the study, the methodology, a description of the data, and the author's background.