IJLLC | Espousing Stakeholder Engagement for Enterprise Growth: Ali Jimale Ahmed’s Art of Language Manipulation in Critical Thought and Analysis

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Espousing Stakeholder Engagement for Enterprise Growth: Ali Jimale Ahmed’s Art of Language Manipulation in Critical Thought and Analysis

Mohamed A. Eno

International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IJLLC), Vol-5,Issue-1, January - February 2025, Pages 19-29, 10.22161/ijllc.5.1.4

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Article Info: Received: 05 Jan 2025, Received in revised form: 07 Feb 2025, Accepted: 12 Feb 2025, Available online: 17 Feb 2025

Abstract:

Language is the primary vehicle writers use to present their views in the ideological transactions they have with their audience over a particular subject matter. However, a variety of other factors such as context, social environment, creative imagination, ideology, style, critical outlook, and mastery of the medium influence the writer’s work. Although these are common features available in every writer’s stock, authors differ in the skills they use in representing multiple abstract phenomena. More importantly, authorial difference is demonstrated in each writer’s ability of manipulating language to present his thoughts. This includes but not limited to the appropriate selection of the features of language, the writing style, cohesion and logical flow of ideas, and the narrative flow to capture the readers’ attention as key stakeholders in the writing process. This article presents an overview of how Ali Jimale Ahmed, a Somali-American academician, poet and literary critic, uses language to communicate his thought in prose and poetry. It shows how, while delineating his argument and crafting his subject matter, Ahmed espouses various stakeholders in his creative works through a careful and artful manipulation of language for effective and emphatic communication.

Keywords:

critical analysis, critical thought, language, literary criticism, poetry, prose, Somali literature

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