GRAPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EDITORIAL LEAD PARAGRAPHS OF SELECTED ENGLISH MEDIUM NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS

Communication can be described as a transmission of information, consisting of discriminative stimuli, from a source to the recipient(s). However, studies have revealed that in some cases, the information received is not the same as that which was sent due to all kinds of articulation, idiosyncratic association of words and poor punctuation skills which reduce the efficiency of the transmission. Premised on the foregoing, this study examines the graphological features of Editorial Lead Paragraphs of Selected English Medium Nigerian Newspapers. In order to achieve this objective, the research made use of the English medium newspapers published and are in circulation, which comprise the daily and weekend newspapers listed below. For the analysis of data, Halliday’s text linguistic approach was adopted as the theoretical framework. At the end of the exercise, findings reveal that the editors skillfully used graphological features in order to drive home their messages