Stylistics Analysis of Mulana Tariq Jameel’s prayers at the end of Speeches

Abstract

Stylistics is a versatile approach that analyses the language and derives hidden and in-depth meanings to figure out major and minor themes.  This study aims to investigate the stylistic features of the prayers of Maulana Tariq Jameel at various levels. This paper is an attempt to shed light on the religious language of Mulana’s selected prayers. Alabi’s Model of Stylistic (2007) was employed to analyze the different levels of stylistics. The data was collected from the three different Mulana’s prayers at the end of his speeches. A qualitative method has been used to analyze the selected data. In the analysis, lexico-syntactic devices such as anastrophe, asyndeton, anaphora, epizeuxis, synecdoche, simile & metaphor, synonym, hypernyms, hyponyms, parts of speech and morphological devices like compounding, affixes and coinage have been used to investigate the stylistic feature in selected data. It is concluded that the linguistic features that Mulan uses are crucial in

passing his message to the listeners. However, Mulana constantly uses linguistic features as a stylistic technique for the sake of persuasion.