SOCIAL EFFECTIVENESS OF STYLE IN OLUSUNLE'S "VISIONS"

Abstract

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.