Stylistics analyzes style through various dimensions such as choice, deviation, situation, and temporality. It aims to establish discourse peculiarities, induce appreciation of discourses, and ascertain linguistic habits. Stylistics helps determine the linguistic background and orientation of writers and speakers. It can also be used to make critical judgments of texts. Features like graphological, syntactic, and lexico-semantic elements can be explored through stylistic analysis to describe a text's physical appearance, sentence structures, and word choices.

1. Nature and goals of stylistics

2. nature
Stylistics looks at style in such dimensions as follows
 Style as choice
 Style as deviation
 Style as situation
 Style as temporal phenomenon
 Style as individual

3. Goals of stylistics
 The goals of stylistics are as follows
 To establish discourse peculiarities:
 Stylistics studied the peculiarities that characterize
the discourse of a writer,speaker, period, people or
genre. Hence, stylistics could bring out certain
feature of soyinka’s works which are different from
osofisan’s works. It could help us identify the british
English style as different from the American English
style.

4.  To induce Appreciation of discourses:
 Stylistics involves the appreciation of a discourse in
order to increase our enjoyment of the discourse. It
opens the reader’s mind to the form and function of a
particular discourse. Stylistics is sensitive to different
linguistics manipulations and choices in a given text. It
unfolds the beauty in authorial and characters linguistics
choices and opens the reader or listener’s mind to
the aesthetic appeals of such choices.

5.  To ascertain linguistics habits:
 An author’s style is the product of a particular linguistics habit,
conditioned by some social, cultural and ideological environments.
The objective of stylistics is to help determine the linguistics
background and orientation of a given writer osspeaker. Thus,
according to chatman (1971), every analysis of style can be seen as
an attempt to discover the artistic principles that under pin the
choice a writer has made. As a useful tool in the interpretation of a
text . This knowledge would lead us to arrive at an objective rather
than a subjective conclusion. The knowledge of stylistics equally
results in the proper analysis of speaking and writing habits to
discover patterns which characteristically differentiate one variety
of language from the other. A number of factors namely: situations,
mode of communication, context, socio-linguistics appropriateness,
account for variations across genres.

6. To make critical judgments:
 To make critical judgments:
 the application of stylistics on a discourse may help a
may help a stylitician to make an evaluative of
critical judgment. stylitician to make an evaluative of
critical judgment.

7. TEXT SUCH AS:
 GRAPHOLOGICAL FEATURES:
 Through these features, a stylistician can reasonably
explore and give descriptions of the physical
appearance of a literary text. Here, such features Here,
such features as the use of punctuation marks to create
stylistic effects are significant. However a major effects
are significant. However a major feature here is
foregrounding. In this instance, certain words are fore
grounded or brought to the fore to them prominence
through the use of italics, capital letters, underlining,
and son on.

8.  SYNTACTIC FEATURES:
 The focus of syntactic analysis here is the
identification of the effects created by the
various sentence types in a text. Such
aspects as ellipses, parataxis, hypotaxis,
right, and left branching sentences are
considered significant. For instance,
dislocation in human thoughts (stream of
conciousness) and this Is highly manifested
in james joyce’s novels.

9.  LEXICO- SEMANTIC FEATURES:
 The stylistic use of words here m ay produce
denotative, connotative, collative, affective thematic
or stylistic meanings based on the speaker’s or
writer’s intention. Certain characteristic use of words
may help us to identify the context its genre, its
communicative purpose its author, and so on...