A Stylistic Analysis of Ebi Yeibo's the Forbidden Tongue

Student: Funmilayo Ebikaboere Bolaji (Project, 2025)
Department of English and Literary Studies
Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State

Abstract

ABSTRACTSStylistics analysis is the study and interpretation of texts from linguistic and literary perspectives. This work was done to examine the basic linguistic features that have been used by Ebi Yeibo in The Forbidden Tongue to pass his messages across to the readers and the society. A systemic functional grammar, generative grammar, and style as deviation approaches were adopted. Approaches where particular notes were taken of the stylistic function, and effect the significant of linguistic features in a literary text. The stylistics tools employed were morphology, graphology, phonology, syntax, and lexico-semantics. The paper also analyzes the poems using the tools of linguistics with a view to make their meaning explicit. It is worth noting that stylistics as a scientific discipline is really beneficial to those who are teaching and studying English language and literature. After applying these tools in the poem, it was discovered that language is an integral part of any work of art and that the success of a work depends on how the writer has been able to manipulate language. Yeibo had effected changes through a systemic use of language which helped a better understanding of his work.

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