Abstract
This study examines environmental exploitation and its socio-economic consequences in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow (2006) using Lesley Jeffries’s Critical Stylistics, particularly the tool of Presenting Others’ Speech and Thought. It analyses ten selected excerpts to show how speech and thought presentation shapes meaning and guides reader interpretation of life in the Niger Delta. Findings reveal that Agary uses shifts in speech modes to contrast suffering with institutional neglect, highlighting environmental injustice and marginalisation. The study demonstrates that these linguistic choices are ideologically driven and position readers toward critical awareness of power imbalances and ecological degradation.
Keywords: Ideology, environmental
exploitation, Critical Stylistics, speech and thought presentation, narrative
technique, Lesley Jeffries
DOI: 10.36349/sojolics.2026.v02i02.038
author/Akpere, Geraldine Erhieyovwe
journal/Sokoto JOLICS 2(2) | August 2026 |
