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Several studies in newspaper language have
been conducted, but most of them have not been concerned
with audience participation with a view to ascertaining the
degree/ effectiveness (or otherwise) of the messages. This
book presents a more pragmatic approach to the dynamics of
language use in media texts while also providing insightful
discussions on the Rhetorical Question (RQ) as a stylistic
device. It shows that although the RQ is not a new
phenomenon in language, it is an uncommon stylistic...

In some ways, his writings could be regarded as racy, episodic, conversational, condemnatory but in a constructive manner... he strikes the chord of a chronic optimist...-Prof. J.S.AliyuThis impressive collection of scholarship on Fr. Ehusani's writings and sophisticated literary style is distinctive and thrilling, offering scholars of discourse analysis, stylistics, pragmatics as well as philosophers of language a wealth insights into the use of metaphor, rhetorical questions and other literary devices in the discourse of socio-political issues and problems as a global phenomenon.-Prof....

This book brings together the seminal contributions of scholars interested in the study of language, literature and style in Africa. It marks a response to the longstanding neglect of stylistic analysis of canonical and emergent fictional and non-fictional African prose and discourse. As a reaction to this neglect of African literary artefacts, the book provides a welcome and timely deviation from the norm. The contributions to this volume include discussions that are both analytical and theoretical; analyses of style at the levels of lexis and semantics; newer and more innovative analyses...