Abstract
Patricia McCormick's novel Sold sheds light on the global problem of human and sex trafficking of children. Human trafficking is a major problem that affects people all over the world. After being promised one thing and receiving another, women and children are forced into trafficking. In the world of human trafficking, women are especially vulnerable. Numerous diseases and threats exist. This study aims to use the linguistic critical stylistic analysis, the theme of sex–child trafficking by adopting Jefferies (2010) textual conceptual functions and other stylistic devices to help in analysing the extracts that are representing child sex trafficking. Critical stylistics refers to the stylistic activity of investigating the ways in which social meanings are demonstrated through language. The model elements adopted in this study are: representing actions, event states, negation and hypothesizing and metaphor and irony.
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