One
of the most intriguing things about language is its redeployment to
accomplish a multiplicity of functions by different people in different
places at different times. One of such functions of language is humour-
making. People often make use of humour in social, political and
cultural interactions through the skillful manipulation of diverse
structures of language. Underlining the manipulative skills of a speaker
or language user are peculiar and unique choices that are made. These
choices are explainable by studying the linguistic style of the language
user. To do this, stylistics, therefore, is an instrument with which
style can be effectively studied. As a result, this research sets out to
examine how and whether syntactic items can be used stylistically to
achieve humour. Since analysis must be based on a particular linguistic
theoretical construct, this study adopts functional linguistics as a
theoretical mainstay for analysis. Since this theory offers a broad
spectrum for analysis, the study further narrows down specifically to
transitivity as presented in Halliday (1985). Terminologies such as
"participants, processes, circumstances" and their sub-types are used in
classifying syntactic items. At the end of the analysis, it is
discovered that interactants make a predominant use of "processes- the
material process" to create humour. This is because an entity has to do
something on another for humour to be possible. However, the
"processes", which usually contain "participants", are complimented by
different "circumstances" to contextualise the utterance for humour. The
completeness of the humour lies with the relationship between shared
knowledge and the lexical choices of interactants. This shared knowledge
connects the syntactic choices a speaker makes to context, resulting
into