Strategies of Language Used and Social Reflections in Young Adult Literature on Fiction of Chamiporn Saengkrajang

Abstract

This study aimed to explore strategies of language used and social reflections in fiction for young adults from 10 pieces of work of Chamiporn Saengkrajang. The data were analyzed through descriptive findings.
The findings revealed six types of language strategies: word used, reduplication, compound words, expressive words, abbreviations, and foreign words. There were four sentence formats: short sentences, long sentences, rhetorical questions, and contradictory sentences. There are six types of idiom and six aspects of figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, hyperbole, and paradox. There were four aspects of social reflections: economy, education, morality and culture, and family