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Levels of Linguistic Analysis

1. Levels of Linguistic Analysis

2. Levels of Linguistic Analysis Phonology G raphology L exis S yntax S emantics

3. PHONOLOGY

4. P honology According to Khan and Jabeen (2015), this level of stylistic analysis focuses on the study of a language's sound system, or the formal rules of pronunciation. This level concentrates on the role that sound devices play in texts' stylistic importance. Alliteration, assonance, consonance, and phonaesthesia are examples of phonological devices.

5. Alabi (2008) claims that this level is the level of combined sounds. In order to prove that two sounds are similar or different, one must use textual or linguistic evidence. However, as language is not used in a vacuum, such a deliberate use of sounds will also have significance. As spoken language predominates, this level is the richest and most significant ( Ogunsiji and Farinde , 2013).

6. Example: “Their stanzas of stifling scandals Cause the masses to curse ” ( Dasylva : “Songs of Odamolougbe ” Alliteration, deliberate selection of sounds, repetition, Meaning: sinister, evil, corruption of Nigerian politicians

7. GRAPHOLOGY

8. Graphology This level is considered as the study of written language usage patterns. According to Khan and Jabeen (2015:128), this is equivalent to the study of a language's established spelling rules and writing system. According to Leech (1969:39), graphology, which refers to the entire writing system, transcends orthography. In a similar manner, it is referred to as a level of linguistic analysis that concentrates on text layout, word size or shape, and any other graphical or orthographical element ( Yeibo and Akerele 2014).

9. The purpose of graphology in a text is to catch the reader's attention. Graphology offers the reader a solid impression by communicating the exact mind of the writer. Punctuation marks like the comma, full stop, colon, semi-colon, and quote marks, as well as paragraphing, spacing, and the foregrounding of certain structures, are examples of graphological techniques. All these devices have stylistic effects.

10. Example: On the wrinkled face of the hills i see my shortening shadow as my sun creeps towards the west hills gently , gently, gently like afternoon’s flame l o Ushi’s “Hill Song” w e r i n g To ash in the evening

11. LEXIS

12. Lexis Lexis simply refers to language's words. It has to do with a specific language's whole words and phrases. This level is described by Ogunsiji & Farinde (2013) as word choice. Our choice of words is however unique.  This is because of the possibility that different influences like heredity, training, and even experience could condition them.

13. A lexical study of style involves the identification of the components/features of a word in a sentence. In an advertisement, it can be used to create a stylistic impact. The study of how individual words and idioms tend to pattern in various linguistic contexts on the meaning level in terms of stylistics is what Khan and Jabeen (2015:128) refer to as the lexical level of stylistics analysis.

14. Example: I looked upon the rotting sea And there the dead men lay I looked upon the rotting deck And there the dead men lay (Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)

15. SYNTAX

16. Syntax This level of analysis involves both syntax and morphology. "The purpose is to evaluate the internal structure of sentences in a language and the way they work in sequences, clauses, phrases, words, nouns, verbs, etc. Need to be distinguished and placed through an analysis to find the foregrounding and the derivation," state Khan and Jabeen (2015:128 )

17. The study of syntax is the pattern of word combinations that result in phrases, clauses, and sentences ( Jolayemi 2008). Here , the syntactic functions of distinct components of speech will be explored. The investigation will focus on the syntactic functions of nouns (as subjects, objects, appositives, tenses, etc.); adverbs (as modifiers, determinants, and so on )..

18. Example: “ Home he went” “home” occurs in the beginning of the sentence to foreground it . “ Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”

19. SEMANTICS

20. Semantics Simply put, this level is focused on word and sentence meaning. Depending on the speaker's or writer's intention, words may be used to produce denotative, connotative, collocative , affective, thematic, or stylistic meanings at the semantic level. We can identify the context of a text, its genre, its communicative purposes, its author, and other details by noticing certain distinctive word choices. It's common to refer to this level as "stylistic meaning."

21. Example: The writer has penned down his ideas with extreme brevity. I see squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness….(Shakespeare)

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