Abstract
Around the world, rape and sexual abuse are everyday violent occurrences, affecting close to a billion women and girls over their lifetimes, and this makes rape a global epidemic . A report compiled by World Population Review (2021) indicates that Lesotho is ranked at number three position globally as a country that has high prevalence of rape, this is because sexual violence against women and girls is most widespread as there is a rate of 88.6 rape cases per 100, 000 inhabitants. Scholars in diverse parts of the world and varying disciplines have devoted a huge amount of research in order to address the social ill of rape which is pervasive in most societies of the world. Key amongst these scholars is who came to the view that in the case of rape, language is a very powerful tool as it has the capacity to structure events. These events are structured through narratives and a narrative is a type of discourse. The concept of narrative in linguistics refers to brief, topically precise...
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