DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2019.v05i05.003

Pages: 109-116

This paper is titled Prostitute’s Speech Style in Hausa Society: A Study of Ibrahim Sheme’s Novel ‘Yartsana. The focus of this paper is to discuss the speech style of prostitutes of Hausa society as appeared in ‘Yartsana. The novel ‘Yartsana centres on the socio-cultural issue of prostitution as it relates to Hausa land. Prostitution is prohibited and negatively viewed in Hausa society. Prostitutes must leave their home town to other places for security purposes. In the other places, the prostitutes adopt a speech style different from that of non prostitute women in the society. The aim of this paper is to analyze the prostitute’s speech style as obtained in the novel ‘Yartsana. It discusses speech styles in ‘Yartsana in five sub-heading. These are the taboo, Proverbs, and bitter words the forth part of the paper comprises conclusion where summary and findings were discussed. The last portion is the bibliography where sources of the paper are listed.