Social effectiveness of style in Olusunle’s “visions”  

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ALABI, TAOFIQ ADEDAYO

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2 (Jun. 2011), page 229-250.
Fulltext: p. 229-250.pdf (203.84KB)

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From the dimensions of pluralism and multilevel approaches to investigation of textual style, style is viewed as the totality of the linguistic ingredients which cohere to confer effectiveness on a text, whether spoken or written. These linguistic ingredients become meaningful, hence effective, when they constitute appropriate linguistic choices in a social context. Thus, this paper seeks to argue for the imperativeness of context of situation (whether immediate or wider), in stylistics and at the same time re-presenting established elements of language as functionally potent variables of measuring and interpreting the stylistic density of a given poetic discourse. It is presupposed that poetic analysis comprises a consideration of correlates of pattern and figures; paradigm and syntagm. It is evident that poetic language typically organizes figures along the chain and violates established patterns at points of choices. These patterns are specially styled in poetry such that they combine in an idiosyncratic fashion to harmonize the message with its medium in relation to its spatio-temporal contexts. This makes stylistics an indispensable tool of exhaustively appraising and appreciating a poetic text.tc

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