synchronize the views of the traditional infertility healers (TIHs) with those of the hospital infertility healers (HIHs). In the eyes of the TIHs, there are some causes of infertility that are peculiar to female or male and there are others that can affect both. Those causes that are peculiar to female include fibroid (Ehe Afo), black menstruation, irregular menstruation, abortion, spiritual husband (di-uwa), hot womb and sperm mixtures. On the other hand, causes of male infertility according to the
parents have fear of illicit relationships of unmarried daughters. It may disgrace the family (USA Today, 2009) . 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husbandUSA Today, April 30, 2009 UNICEF report shows that Islamic countries account the most cases of child marriages in Niger (75 percent, Chad (72 per cent), Mali (71 per cent), Bangladesh (64 per cent), Guinea (63 per cent), Central African Republic (61 per cent), Mozambique (56 per cent), and Nepal (51 per cent) (UNICEF, 2012). Child Marriage
This present study sheds light on cohesion in media discourse through analyzing lexical and grammatical cohesion. On one hand, lexical cohesion signals semantic relations between lexical elements in the text. It includes two major categories, namely collocation and reiteration. Collocation refers to a pair of lexical items that tend to appear together. Reiteration involves repetition, synonym, hyponymy, and general word. On the other hand, grammatical cohesion refers to grammatical elements that
Loss and Regaining of Identity in When God Was A Rabbit “Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we’re special and we’re still there” (Winman 242). Sarah Winman’s novel, When God Was a Rabbit, follows the journey of a young girl named Elly Maud. Elly loses her innocence, faces many encounters with death, experiences triumph and tragedy, learns the power of family ties and struggles to live a normal life despite her mental illness. Elly at times