A STYLISTICS ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED NEWSPAPER LEADS (A CASE STUDY OF DAILY TRUST NEWSPAPER 2024)

This project examined a Stylistics Analysis of some selected newspaper leads (a case study of Daily Trust Newspaper 2024). The main purpose of the study is to identify and analyze the various stylistic devices, techniques and approaches used in newspaper leads and to explore the language use in some selected newspaper leads. The study also analyzes some of the distinctive features of newspaper leads in Daily Trust Newspaper of 2024 and to determine the interpretation and comprehension of communicative effect in the newspaper leads. A qualitative research design is used because of the nature of the study. The researcher used a content analysis to analyze the language use in the selected newspaper leads. Purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of 20 leads which were believed to contain the required information needed for the study. The research adopts Stylistics Theory (ST) which provides the foundation for analyzing the linguistic features present in newspapers to understand how meaning is constructed and conveyed. It is an interface between sentence structure, choices of words and how they are structured and the meaning made by those words. The study revealed that broadcasters of the selected newspaper leads used rhetorical devices like metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, irony, among others, and they also used different structural, linguistic, presentational, and narrative among others. This study is a great contribution to the field of research in the language used in newspaper leads of Daily Trust Newspaper 2024.