ABSTRACT
Language and style never moves beyond a concentration on the supremacy of words.These words somehow contain meanings style is effectively language manipulated in ways that signal it as different from ‘ordinary’ language. A stylistic analysis of the selection of some Wole Soyinka’s poems is carried out to educate, explicate and expose to everybody that comes across this write up, in guiding them on how to analyse.
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The data used to illustrate and substantiate our claims are systematically sourced from some selected poems of WoleSoyinka. The lexico-syntactic patterns and choices, the phonological, morphological and graphological devices are the main stylistic elements used to prove our claims.
Finally, we find that each of the elements however, has identifiable functions which contribute to the effective meaning of the poems. It can therefore be concluded that these elements trigger and play important roles in passing the intention of the writer across.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Title Page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE : GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Research Problem
1.2 Aims and Objectives
1.3 Scope of the Study
1.4 Justification
1.5 Research Methodology
1.6 Biography of the Poet
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REWIEW
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Style
2.2 Stylistics
2.3 Approaches to Stylistic Analysis
2.4 Levels of Stylistic Analysis
2.5 Elements in Stylistic Analysis
2.5.1 Lexico-Syntactic Patterns
2.5.2 Lexico-Syntactic Choices
2.5.3 Phonological Devices
2.5.4 Graphological Devices
2.5.5 Morphological Devices
CHAPTER THREE: DATA ANALYSIS
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Textual Analysis
3.2 Discussion of Tables
3.3 Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR: SUMMARY,FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION
4.1 Summary
4.2 Findings
4.3 Conclusion
Bibliography
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Stylistics is a word derived from style;itis a discipline which studies different styles. It can refer to the study of proper use of words or language in proper places.Widdowson (1975, p 3) defines stylistics as “the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation”.
He goes further by saying that what distinguishes stylistics from literary criticism on the one hand, and linguistics on the other, is that it is essentially a means of linking the two and has (as yet at least) no autonomous domain of its own.
He also added that stylistics, however involves both literary criticism and linguistics, as its morphological make-up suggest: the ‘style’ component relating it to the former and the ‘istics’ component to the latter. Style has grown to mean so many things to so many people today.
Carter (1989, p 14) is of the view that it is generally recognized that the style of a work can depend on linguistic levels-often simultaneously and that one fairly crucial factor is our expectation concerning the literary form or genre employed.
Haynes (1989, p 3) believes that the study of style is the study of distinctions: looking at what was said against what might have been said. Style isalmost synonymous with variety. Style refers in a simple way to the manner of expression which differs according to the various contexts.
Style, being a versatile field, is defined depending on one’s field of study. Adejare (1992) makes this clear when he said that style is an ambiguous term.Lawal (1997,p6) however, describes style as an aspect of language that deals with choices of diction, phrases, sentences and linguistic materials that are consistent and harmonious with the subject matter.
He added that it involves the narrative technique of a writer in terms of choice and distribution of words and character.Lawal(1997, p 6)also added that it may be reckoned in terms of the sociolinguistic contexts and it may also be reckonedoranalysed on linguistic, semantic and even semiotic terms.
- RESEARCH PROBLEM
This research notes that the stylistic analysis of this selection of poems has not been done so this research will address itself to analyzing these poems stylistically and examining the uniqueness of stylistics as it combines both linguistics and literary studies as it pertains to these poems.It is also addressing itself to examining how words are put together in transferring of message to the readers.
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The ultimate aim of this research is to explore ways in which language use has been integrated in the selected poems. It is also aimed at analyzing someof the distinctive features that give the selected poems their identity. This refers to the recurrent features of stylistics employed by the writer.
In the same vein, this work will be concerned with striking and marked use of words in these poems in order to enhance effective transfer of message. The effects and functions of the stylistic elements as regards the poems will be looked at in the analysis.
- SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This work shall be exclusively stylistic, and analysis will be conducted through the use of the following levels of analysis: lexico-syntactic patterns and choices, phonology, graphology and morphology. Analysis will be conducted using the stylistic elements in each of the above mentioned levels of analysis, such that it could provide a guide and be relevant to future researchers in a related field.
- JUSTIFICATION
What fascinated the researcher into doing this work is the uniqueness of stylistics as it combines both linguistics and literary studies. The choice of words of WoleSoyinka marked by great scope and has also made the researcher to embark on this project and to choose some of Wole Soyinka’s works as the data.
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