Exploring Stylistic Choices in Jamel Brinkley’s Short Story “Witness”

Abstract

Significance of the stylistic studies in fictional works - prose or poetry, is profound, as it offers linguists opportunities to study and explore the expressiveness of language and linguistic elements that reveal author’s intentions, uncovering how language is used to convey meaning and evoke emotions. By exploring stylistic choices, linguists can gain a deeper understanding of author’s intents. Therefore, stylistic analysis of fictional language is always engaging and interesting, as demonstrated in Jamel Brinkley’s short story “Witness”. The main goal of the article is to analyze Brinkley’s stylistic choices, determine the expressiveness and emotiveness within the story and ascertain how the author makes his writing style distinctive.