A Stylistico-Linguistic Examination of the Textual Discursiveness and Unification

Abstract

One of the aesthetic beauties of textual richness is its ability to grammatically and logically connect its components. This internal unity of text qualifies and sharpens it to make meaning and stretches its communicative capabilities. As a corpus or trend, it has one-to-one inextricability with style or artistic craftsmanship of text which relatively manifests how language is seen as a system and how its systematicity enables it be structurally and functionally systemic. It is on this theoretical background this paper is designed to examine the intrinsic unity of text or what Dressler and de Beaugrande (1982) term intratextuality. By implication, this textual theorization stresses on constituents that are helpful in textual attribution. To gainfully assess this, the study selects Bandele’s The Man Who Came in from the Back Of Beyond and Burma Boy. Theoretically, the study used the Dressler and de Beaugrande’s constitutive and regulative principles as its analytical tools. While discovery of the study reveals that logical connection of linguistic units supplement structural and cohesive linkers in attaining texture, as such making the text textually cohesive. Thus, the meaning making of text is a product of style, language and textual fabrication.