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- Title
Informal Language in Opinion Editorials: A Stylistic Analysis of Political Literature on 234next.com.
- Authors
Adedoyin, Eniola Olamide
- Abstract
In this paper, we extract an article from an Opinion Editorial; 234next.com written by Victor Ehikhamenor, a columnist. The article, titled "Igodomigodo must not Comatose" is a literature on politics and the state of the nation - Nigeria. Using Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics as theoretical background, aspects of naming, lexical ingenuity and semantic implications are divulged from the text. This is done in the bid to establish writers' idiosyncrasies, who have become prone to using words creatively. The question remains however; whether this aids or inhibits communication. Findings reveal that the text is extremely worded but words are connected creatively and symbolically. We conclude by stating categorically that style is infectious, naming is universal and meaning can be largely subjective though universally appreciable.
- Subjects
POLITICS &; literature; POLITICS &; culture; FUNCTIONAL linguistics; SEMANTICS; LEXICOGRAPHY
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 2, p301
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article