A Stylistic Study of the Language of Selected Greeting Cards ... by Vivian Sitamai Adigwe

Barack Obama, the president of the USA made about the terrorist organization of ISIL. This study has applied Leech's (1996: 104) model of illocutionary functions (conflictive) which conflicts with the social goals such as threatening and cursing to analyze a speech by Mr. of threats, the relation between threats warnings and promises, and other expressions of threats. Then it offers a more comprehensive understanding of the type. This study presents a brief definition of threat impressions related to language. Especially, the act of threatening is, in a linguistic sense, an institution, which can be seen as a relatively durable set of social relations that endows an individual with power. Threats are socially linguistic acts the threatener and the threatened. It has adapted the American school of comparative literature along with Leech's types of linguistic deviation to pursue the linguistic deviations used by both of them in their selected poems despite of their different language and culture backgrounds. This study is an attempt to compare between the two mentioned poets. On the other hand, Nali (1800-1852), a great Kurdish classical poet is also known by deploying similar linguistic deviations in which he chose not to abide by the rules of his language when he transcends its norms and exceeds the limits of the linguistic protocols that characterize it.

His poems are characterized by the feature of linguistic deviation in which the musical aspects of language in the poems such as sound, line and breath are transcended. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), is a British transitional figure of literature. Deviating from the rules of language is a linguistic style in which a poet or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way in the terms of language.

A Stylistic Study of the Language of Selected Greeting Cards ... by Vivian Sitamai Adigwe