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Ajenifari Joshua Taiwo
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Style as a Deviation: An Analysis of Stylo-Graphic Idiosyncrasies of Legislative Texts Ajenifari Joshua Taiwo; Omolade Bamgboye
Britain International of Linguistics Arts and Education (BIoLAE) Journal Vol 5 No 3 (2023): Britain International of Linguistics, Arts and Education - November
Publisher : Britain International for Academic Research (BIAR) Publisher

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/biolae.v5i3.1003

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The paper investigates the stylistic peculiarities that are associated with legislative texts. This is done through the purviews of Halliday’s (1971) grapho-stylistics and Mukarovsky’s (1964) concepts of foregrounding and deviation. Legislative proclamations and treaties are veritable and fertile grounds for textual hermeneutics from both linguistic and legal orientations. This present study, however, presents a new frontier as it focuses on the graphological patterning inherent in a selected treaty-based legislative text namely the International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights 1976 (ICESCR). The paper finds that stylistic elements at the graphological level are intentionally employed for their inevitability for meaning processing of the text. The resources such as sectionalisation, paragraphing, italicization, synoptic listing/numbering, spacing and other textual arrangement of the document are occasioned for their intended communicativeness rather than for aesthetic glorification. They all perform deliberate stylistic functions of presenting and framing information that conspicuously call the attention of the readers to the intents of the text owing to their unusualness. The researchers recommend that more scholarly efforts be expended on this interesting genre of textual presentation.
Context as a Pre-Condition for Meaning Fixation in Legal Texts: A Pragma-Contextual Analysis of Human Right Treaty-Based Legislative Text Ajenifari Joshua Taiwo; Awolope Joseph Alaba; Jelili Adewale Adeoye
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 4 No 3 (2023): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/linglit.v4i3.970

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The imperativeness of contextual nuances to textual meaning fixations has largely remained incontrovertible among scholars across various disciplines, though what counts as context may remain debatable. This paper explored the application of the relevant aspects of Lawal’s (2003) pragmatic theory to foreground the contextual inevitability to meaning processing of the treaty-based legislative text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights document of 1948 as adopted by the United Nations. The research adopted a qualitative approach of analysis with a view to experimenting the applicability of language-based theory of pragmatics to the explication of legal-based text. The research showed that legal texts, as products of linguistic deployments, are not only subject to the context of human conditions, but are also amenable to the application of context-based theory of natural language. It was revealed that the linguistic deployments in any communicative legal text is a function of non-linguistic factors of context such as sociological, historical, psychological, social and cosmological situations of the human parties to the ensuing legal contracts under the circumstance
Co-Authors Awolope Joseph Alaba Jelili Adewale Adeoye Omolade Bamgboye