A STYLISTIC
ANALYSIS OF A SELECTED CAMPAIGN SPEECH OF PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN
ABSTRACT
Language and style are the basic modes of communication and information.
They centre on words and utterances and focus beyond these two aspects, that
is, words and utterances. Stylistics is based mainly on the interpretation of
texts from a linguistic perspective. A stylistic analysis of the selected
election campaign speech of President Goodluck Jonathan is carried out in this
research. The data used in this work to illustrate the stylistic effects on
speech is the Campaign speech of President Goodluck Jonathan. The five
stylistic devices identified in this research are the main elements used to
prove our claim. Finally, we found that each of these elements functions well
enough to contribute to the effective use of words in speech delivery. It can
therefore be concluded that these elements trigger and play important roles in
passing the intention of the writer or speaker across to the reader or hearer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Titles Page
Title
Certification i
Dedication ii
Acknowledgment iii
Abstract vii
Table of Contents
viii
1.0 CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Background to
the study 1
1.2 Purpose of the
study 3
1.3 Scope of the
study 4
1.4
Justification of the study 5
2.0 CHAPTER TWO
2.1
Introduction 7
2.2
Stylistic 8
2.3
Style 12
2.4
Approaches to stylists analysis 16
2.5
Levels of stylistics analysis 18
2.6
Cohesion 21
2.7
Speech 24
3.0 CHAPTER THREE
3.1
Introduction 28
3.2
Analysis 28
4.0 CHAPTER FOUR
4.1
Summary 52
4.2
Findings and Conclusion 53
Bibliography 57
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Language is a
fascinating study. This is because of the roles of performs. It captures all
the aspects of human thought and endeavours. Language is concepts which many
attempt have been made to define. To some people’s point of view, language is a
means of communication. To some, it’s a way of expressing our views, ideas,
wishes and emotions. But to be more specific about this definition, language is
what is spoken or written; it consists of the use of word in a meaningful and
agreed order. This definition makes language a rule governed activity. The
first two definitions of language by Chomsky and Cruse suggest that each speech
community possess a respective interest, world vocabulary covering the social
concern, political interest, occupational interest, world view and physical
environment of the people to fulfill their communicative needs and meet their
interactive demands it is this inventory that constitutes the codes with which
a community communicates.
Speech on the other
hand is a connected discourse. It is a faculty of expressing thoughts, feelings
or perceptions by articulation of word. It is spoken formerly to an audience.
There are various a type of speeches out
of which is the
presidential speech. This speech is the one delivered by a president to the
general public or to the members of his cabinet. It can be acceptance speech,
presentation speech, campaign speech and many others. Out of these speeches,
our focus for this research is on campaign speech. What is campaign speech?
What are the features? What factors are to be considered in delivering the
speech? What method of presentation is it going to take? All these are the
questions that must be answered in explaining what a campaign speech is. This
will be examined in the cause of the cause of this study.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The principal aim
of this study is to examine the stylistic effects on the selected presidential
campaign speech of President Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria through the
description and analysis of this speech. In the same vein, this research will
examine the difference in the use of language of the selected speech with the
use of stylistic tools in analyzing the selected speeches. It will identify the
have devices linguistic and literally and discuss how they have contributed to
the beauty of the language use in the selected speeches.
1.2 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The research titled
‘stylistic analysis of a selected campaign speech of President Goodluck
Jonathan’ is aimed at studying the use of language in the selected campaign
speech of president good luck Jonathan. The areas to be covered in the
stylistic analysis of this speech are phonology, morphology, cohesion,
graphology and lexico- syntactic structures. The nature of this research is
empirical which has to do with general and extensive study of a particular
field or area. For example H.G widow son’s ‘stylistic and the teaching of
literature’ are both previous works in this field. They both deal with the
analysis and pedagogical treatment of literary texts from a view point of stylistics.
On the contrary, this research is unique –that is, different from other previous
works because it focuses mainly on the stylistics analysis of presidential
campaign speech of president good luck Jonathan and not just on stylistics
analysis and this will makes readers of this work not to only look at the text
of any speech what so ever, but also the context in which lies the style of
language.
1.4. JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
Several works have
been done on the stylistics analysis of some selected presidential campaign
speeches in Nigeria in which the one selected for this research can be
inclusive. But this research is necessary because not all these works were able
to pin-point the main idea behind campaign speeches especially that of the
president and because just few of these works are centered on campaign speeches
all others are just on stylistics or stylistic analysis. It is not this study
of stylistic or stylistics analysis that borders the
readers but the
details, the break down (anatomy and physiology) of the given speeches. To this
effect, some gaps have been left unfilled by these previous works. Gaps like
detail stylistic analysis on campaign speeches the analysis of the mode by
which it is delivered and many others will prove the authenticity of this
research.
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