Lexical Sylistics In English

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Introduction This study provides a general description about the investigation of Lexical deviation exclusively deals with lexical choices at various linguistic levels such as phonological, morphological, and syntactic. The main objective of the present study is to analyze the poetry of Ibn-e-Insha, with a view to describe the massive use of Indic elements in his poetry. Ibn-e-Insha (انشاء ابن ,(is a super famous Pakistani Urdu poet in performing his ideas through his poem in the Urdu literature, Insha was not just an Urdu poet however he also known for his humorist, travelogue writer and columnist aptitudes. His Urdu-Hindi complex poetic style of language was acclaimed in young generation most. Here our focus is on finding out the literary …show more content…

Hornby states that, „style as the manner of doing, performing, or presenting something. It includes word choices, sentence structure, rhetorical devices, and expressions which are employed by every writer.‟(1995) Stylistics is one of the areas of applied linguistics and it is the study of language in literature. In stylistics, we studies literature with the linguistic point of view. Language performs various functions, linguistic as well as literary. Stylistics is „scientific in nature‟, because of its objectivity, precision and explicitness. It is also an empirical, systematic and analytical study of language in literature. Stylistics analyzes the language at various levels such as: 1. Phonological‒ that focuses on sound symbolism, alliteration, consonance, assonance etc. 2. Morphological‒ that deals with affixation, reduplication, and compound words. 3. Grammatical‒ that deals with the nominal style and the verbal style. 4. Semantic‒ concerns the problems of meaning, and meaning relations including synonyms and antonyms, and parallelism 5. Lexical‒ focuses on lexical choice and lexical devices; it concerns the typology …show more content…

S. R. Levin points out, „most, if not indeed all, of poetry‟s characteristics devices exemplify deviation in one way or another‟ (1965:225). This work is involves an exploration of the language of Insha‟s verse. The language of his poetry is characterized by exquisite arrangement of lexical items, elegance in the use of expressions and images, as well as metaphoric utilization of words from diverse disciplines. This study tries to reveal the word choices of the writer from linguistic point of view, particularly on the lexical deviation. When we use language, we follow its norms which mean that language has a standard. Whereas when poet and writer use the same language, they deviate from the norms. If a language is used as a standard language system, it will not be possible for poets to create new styles and expressions. Deviation takes place when a poet strikes to

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