A Stylistic Analysis Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1       INTRODUCTION Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from literary and linguistic perspectives. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics. A stylistic analysis entails studying in details the features of written or spoken texts and stating what functions they perform in the context of the texts. The features chosen from any text are dealt with in three ways; identification, description and purpose. The method of analysis is purely scientifi…