Lingustic Stylistic Analysis of Chukwuemeka Ike’s Sunset at Dawn and Isidore Okpewho’s the Last Duty

Abstract

This study explored the linguistic stylistic analysis of Chukwuemeka Ike’s Sunset at Dawn and Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty. The General objective of this study aims at a linguistic stylistic analysis of some stylistic markers deployed in Ike’s Sunset at Dawn and Okpewho’s The Last Duty. Other significant objectives include identifying and explicating the prevalent stylistic features the authors employed in the two selected text and features the authors deployed to pass their intended message. The study borrowed an insight from Hallidays systemic functional grammar model as its analytical tool. The data for the study were systematically but randomly extracted from the two selected texts and analysed qualitatively in accordance with the tenants of the adopted theory. The result showed that both authors made preponderant use of linguistic items such as Graphology, punctuation, paragraphing, titling, noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs, registers ,collocations ,code mixing and code switching, proverbial expression .Ike made use of all the linguistic items list on like Okpewho who did not make use of some .But by and large, the two authors demonstrated high level of creativity in the language use which peculiarly marked their individual styles.it was thus recommended that researches should work on areas not covered in this research.