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Stylistics is adaptive in nature such that its framework, as a veritable linguistic analytical approach, deals
with a whole range of human discourse: Medical religious, political, legal, social interpersonal, group,
communication, and so on. The practice of stylistics is targeted at achieving certain goals:
The knowledge of stylistics equally results in the proper analysis of speaking and writing habits
to discover patterns which characteristically differentiate one variety of language from the
other. A number of factors namely: situations, mode of communication, context, socio-
linguistics appropriateness, account for variations across genres.
GRAPHOLOGICAL FEATURES:
Through these features, a stylistician can reasonably explore and give descriptions of the physical
appearance of a literary text. Here, such features as the use of punctuation marks to create stylistic
effects are significant. However a major feature here is fore grounding. In this instance, certain words
are fore grounded or brought to the fore to them prominence through the use of italics, capital letters,
underlining, and son on. You will learn more about fore grounding later in this course.
SYNTACTIC FEATURES:
The focus of syntactic analysis here is the identification of the effects created by the various sentence
types in a text. Such aspects as ellipses, parataxis, hypotaxis, right, and left branching sentences are
considered significant. For instance, dislocation in human thoughts (stream of conciousness) and this is
highly manifested in james joyce’s novels.
The stylistic use of words here may produce denotative, connotative, collative, affective thematic or
stylistic meanings based on the speaker’s or writer’s intention. Certain characteristic use of words may
help us to identify the context its genre, its communicative purpose its author, and so on...