Graphology is a stylistic instrument which makes Ushie's writing peculiarity, an illustrating example of style as deviation from the actual linguistic norm. The appropriate lexical choices should make it vivid, personal, friendly and persuasive. While some research has directly ignored its linguistic meaning and just concentrated on its psychological aspects, other studies have reflected its linguistic nature. What's the most energy-efficient way to run a boiler? <> The graphological style of the author is featured analyses: graphological, lexical and syntactic with the semantic implication of each level highlighted. Morphology to Jolayemi (2008) is the study of word-formation, in other words, the study of how morphemes (smallest units of a word) whether free or bound form words. It gives examples from graphology, phonology, morphology, s. people. has its own units, in English we We are responding. Temporal deixis: They point to time. 2.2 Background of the Author So, quantitative stylistics on the one hand may provide confirmation for the hunches or insights we have about style. assumption about the world It majorly focuses on achieved graphological through the use of quotation marks. The traditional dualistic view later clashed with the monist organic view of style of the new critics. 2.1.7 The Concept of Graphology Together with this setback, there is also a general consensus that graphology is neither relevant nor interesting in itself and, to some extent, a greater number of people still misunderstand the real meaning of this word (Eva, 2015). It discusses how we recognize The detailed analysis will lead to more accurate understandings of the language in order to let the readers better understand this variety. Does the order of validations and MAC with clear text matter? Graphological Level, Lexical Level, Grammatical Level, Semantic Level / Discourse Level, Pragmatic Level. The sentence structure must arouse the potential consumers' interest or desire to purchase. context based study including linguistic However, there are many figurative descriptions of this view of style during the history of Renaissance and Neo-Classical periods. language features to reveal the deeper meaning of the poem. advertisement, examining graphological, lexical, syntactic, grammatical and semantic style markers. Ndimele (2001:15) defines stylistics as a branch of linguistics which studies the application of linguistics to the study of literature. This confusion with vague meaning may be due to its double filiation, i.e graphology as it concerns the study of writing systems, and as it also concerns character analysis based on handwriting. of his language to give expression to his 2.1.10 Punctuation Finally, here lies the major difference between linguistic stylistics and literary criticism a point more lucidly corroborated by Leech and Short (1981) while discussing Style, Text and Frequency: Aesthetic terms used in the discussion of style (urbane, curt, exuberant, florid, lucid, plain, vigorous, etc.) The position, nature and quantity of the of pronunciation. It is the Pedagogical stylistics is intrinsically linked with the teaching of the linguistic features of written texts as a means of enhancing students understanding of literature and language. ), paragraphing, spacing, foregrounding of structures and so on. 2.1.4.3 Literary Linguistic Stylistics By definition, deviation is the conscious attempt of flouting the linguistic norms for the purpose of foregrounding, revealing or defining the writers style or peculiarities. The Oxford English Dictionary has recorded as many as twenty-eight different entries under the term style. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. are not directly referable to any observable linguistic features of texts, and one of the long-term aims of stylistics must be to see how far such descriptions can be justified in terms of descriptions of a more linguistic kind. Khan and Jabeen (2015) say that this level of stylistic analysis is concerned with the study of the sound system of a given language, that is; the formal rules of pronunciation. Examples: whole The pedagogical aim of stylistics in teaching (literary) language and how this language functions is based on how we as readers native and non-native come from the word on the page to its meanings, Bex (1999). Graphology, however, is an essential part of the description of any written language. Because language is primarily spoken, this level is the richest and most important (Ogunsiji and Farinde, 2013). As a matter of fact, scholars of stylistics have scarcely given this poet a deserving attention. The more a critic wishes to substantiate what he says about style, the more he will need to point to the linguistic evidence of texts; and linguistic evidence, to be firm, must be couched in terms of numerical frequency. This study however, focuses attention on graphological deviation which is understood as the variant means of language use in print to actualize the meaning of a text. According to Carter and Stockwell (2008), pedagogical stylistics developed in the 1970s and became very practical as one way of evading the attacks leveled at stylistics. language in order to know about the This can be seen in two ways. 2.1.13 Pictography (graphical elements) How graphological deviation may affect an authors meaning and produce aesthetic effects has been the major focus of scholars within the stylistics jurisdiction in recent times. 4.3.2 Lambs at the Shrine (1995) Keywords: Graphology, Pedagogy, Stylistics, Deviation, Foregrounding and Multimodality, Table 1 - Levenstons (1992) Model of Graphology, Table 2 - Lennards (2005) Model of Graphology, Table 3 - Present Studys Model of Graphological Categorization, Table 4 - Statistical Presentation of Selected Poems, Table 5 - Summary of Response to Research Question. Stylistic analysis at the graphological level is concerned with the visual devices such as indentation, capitalization, texts layout (lineation), italicization, punctuation, spelling, graphological features in a text has some semantic and stylistic implications. In connection with the latter conception, stylistics critics have criticized the procedure of some linguistic stylisticians who pride themselves in the elaboration of form in textual analysis at the expense of the message and values (content) of the text.