scholarly journals ‘The truth is we’re watching each other’: Voiceover narration as ‘split self’ presentation in The Handmaid’s Tale TV series

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Chloe Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
In Series ◽  
Shallow Focus ◽  
Audience Interpretation

Cognitive stylistics offers a renewed focus on readerly or audience interpretation, but while cognitive stylistic tools have been applied in the investigation of literary texts, their application to TV, film and screen has been more limited. This article examines the cognitive stylistic features of the voiceover narration in the first TV series adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale to explore the representation of June/Offred’s ‘split selves’ and how these are mediated through a prominent ‘filmic composition device’. Through analysis of voiceovers and corresponding production choices in series 1, this study explores, first, how the different modes of communication – both choices of visual production (such as shallow-focus shots) and linguistic features (such as ‘you’ address and container metaphors) – combine to show Offred’s split perspective; and second, how these stylistic elements work to foreground the key themes of the series, such as imprisonment, objectification and surveillance.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF MODERN PRINTS ON CLOTHES

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-150
Author(s):  
Екатерина Александровна Непомнящих ◽  
Яньвэй Лю
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Ideological Attitudes

В статье исследуются тексты на молодежной одежде, которая в современном мире становится способом самопрезентации языковой личности, декларации её идеологических установок, способом вступления в диалог. Авторы описывают структурно-семантические особенности принтов на одежде, отмечают использование императива, контекстуальных антонимов, включение лексики разной стилевой принадлежности, построение высказываний по типу устно-разговорных. Исследователи указывают на афористичность, прецедентность, креолизованность, а также хэштегирование текстовых принтов на одежде. The article examines texts on youth’s clothing, which in the modern world becomes a way of self-presentation of a linguistic personality, a declaration of its ideological attitudes, a way of entering into a dialogue. The authors describe the structural and semantic features of prints on clothes, note the use of the imperative, contextual antonyms, the inclusion of vocabulary of different styles, and the construction of statements as following the oral and colloquial traditions. Researchers point at aphorismic character, precedence, creolization, as well as hashtagging of text prints on clothing.

scholarly journals Representativeness in Corpora of Literary Texts: Introducing the C18P Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Iris Gemeinböck
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Linguistic Research

Currently there are very few specialised corpora of literary texts that are tailored to the needs of literary critics who are interested in corpus stylistic analyses of prose fiction. Many existing corpora including literary texts were compiled for linguistic research interests and are often unsuitable for corpus stylistic purposes. The paper addresses three of the main problems: the absence of labelling of the texts for literary genre, the use of extracts, and the prevalence of linguistic periodisation schemes. C18P is a corpus of prose fiction designed specifically to address these issues. It traces the early development of the novel from 1700 up until the Victorian era. It can, for instance, be used for an analysis of the characteristic linguistic features of individual literary genres and forms. The following paper introduces the design of the corpus as well as some of its potential uses.

scholarly journals A Semantic and Rhetorical Study of Manipulation in Two English and Arabic Political Speeches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raid Muhammad Jasim ◽  
Sabah S. Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
American President ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Ideological Dimension

Manipulation is a discursive phenomenon used by speakers to affect the thoughts ( and indirectly the actions) of the recipients. This study is concerned with manipulation in two political speeches; one in English delivered by the American President Donald J. Trump, while the other in Arabic delivered by the Iraqi President Barham Salih to be the study's data. Each one of these two speeches is divided into serial-numbered extracts( henceforth Ext.). The study aims at investigating the semantic and rhetorical devices utilized as manipulation strategies in these speeches. To this end, the qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis will be followed in this study. The significance of the study stems from how the ideological dimension based on bettering off the speaker's image and derogating others' image plays a vital role in the political speeches. This study draws on Van Dijk's ideological approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of political discourse, and accordingly, it is adopted as a model. Results revealed that both speakers use lexicalization, a list of three, repetition, and citing as effective techniques in their two speeches to affect their recipients' minds. The study concluded that the ideological framework of "positive self-presentation" and "negative other-presentation" is the central umbrella under which manipulation can exist and work freely. The findings might help linguists and political analysts to understand how politicians use the linguistic features in their discourse to affect the audience's thoughts and behaviors manipulatively.

scholarly journals Tracing the lexical features of Marko Kropyvnytskyi’s works

Linguistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Mykola Verbovyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Quantitative Composition ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Lexical Composition

The article analyzes the most important lexical features of Marko Kropyvnytskyi’s works of art. The researcher concludes that the playwright in his texts used words or individual forms characteristic of the steppe subdialects of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. The analysis of words is made with the involvement of a wide range of factual material extracted from various lexicographical, ethnographic sources, as well as artistic texts of other authors. It has been established that the lexical composition of Marko Kropyvnytskyi’s works reveals organic connections with the vocabulary of the adjacent Poltava and Podil dialects, and more broadly with the eastern and western dialects of the Ukrainian language. It is also noted that the analyzed words show a significant influence on the steppe subdialects and on the Ukrainian language in general Polish, Russian and Romanian. Thus, the study suggests that the playwright’s literary texts recorded and preserved the original local phonetic, word-forming or semantic derivatives that complement and deepen our knowledge of general trends in the lexical systems of Eastern Ukrainian dialects and the Ukrainian literary language. Consideration of only a small number of words (approximately 20 nouns) that function in the works of Marko Kropyvnytskyi, determines the prospects for further research to establish the quantitative composition of such names and a systematic description of phonetic, word-forming or semantic features in connection with other dialects and literary language. It follows from the above that the texts of M. Kropyvnytskyi are an important source for the study of linguistic features and steppe subdialects, and the Ukrainian literary language of the early twentieth century.

Stylistic Elements in the Use of Arabic as Language in Diplomacy: Recent Developments in United Nations Context

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Edzard
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Elements Of Style ◽  
Multilateral Treaties

AbstractIn this paper, a number of stylistic features of contemporary diplomatic Arabic will be investigated. These are the interference of historical and contemporary Arab-Islamic thought and terminology with accepted stylistic standards in international documents as well as certain metaphorical, including euphemistical, elements of style that are germane to Arabic. Subject of the discussion will be bi- and multilateral treaties that are either concluded in Arabic or in which Arabic is one of the official languages. Furthermore, diplomatic correspondence that originates in Arabic will be considered. Certain linguistic features of Arabic as surfacing in the said documents, independently of any religious implications, will be closely followed, if relevant for the interpretation of the documents under discussion. One of the main foci of attention will be the vast diplomatic correspondence that has been surrounding the Iraq-Kuwait-crisis. Finally, the unique case of an Arabic diplomatic poem will be cited.

Towards a Pedagogical Stylistics

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Clark ◽  
Sonia Zyngier
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Dimension

Since the 1950s, pedagogical stylistics has been intrinsically linked with the teaching of written texts (and especially literary texts) to speakers of English as a second language. This is despite the fact that for decades many teachers have also structured their lessons in L1 classrooms to focus upon the linguistic features of literary texts as a means of enhancing their students’ understanding of literature and language. Recognizing that instructors in both L1 and L2 settings were often employing related pedagogical techniques without realizing that their colleagues in the other context were facing similar challenges, the PEDSIG group of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) has sought to add a theoretical dimension to research undertaken into practice in the stylistics classroom. Its goals, then, were: to establish a working definition of pedagogical stylistics; to identify the theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings of the discipline shared by L1 and L2 practitioners; to point if possible towards any emerging consensus on good practice. The group determined that the principal aim of stylistics in the classroom is to make students aware of language use within chosen texts, and that what characterizes pedagogical stylistics is classroom activities that are interactive between the text and the (student) reader. Preliminary findings, from a pilot study involving a poem by Langston Hughes, suggest that the process of improving students’ linguistic sensibilities must include greater emphasis upon the text as action: i.e. upon the mental processing which is such a proactive part of reading and interpretation; and how all of these elements – pragmatic and cognitive as well as linguistic – function within quite specific social and cultural contexts.

scholarly journals University teacher’s speech and self-presentation in e-learning and distance professional communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12147
Author(s):  
Tatiana Isaeva ◽  
Elena Goryunova
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Tract ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Video Lectures ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

The organization of professional communication in the context of e-learning is unthinkable without solving a number of issues related to the university teachers’ speech behaviour. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem of studying of the teacher’s vocal tract functioning, the prevention of occupational diseases of the vocal tract, as well as identifying the psychological and linguistic features of the teacher’s speech during online classes, webinars and video lectures has become more than relevant. Basing on the study of the normative and methodological regulation issues of the online-speaker’s speech in distance communication, the peculiarities of speech technique and oratory competency in conditions of distance learning, an interdisciplinary study was carried out, which made it possible to determine the factors that increase the effectiveness of e-learning, activate the students’ attention and form a positive visual and audiolingual teacher’s image. The use of empirical research methods made it possible to determine a number of features of the teacher’s professional communication in the context of e-learning. The article offers recommendations for teachers and university authorities to improve professional qualifications in the field of the issues studied.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF TENSE SHIFT AS A RESOURCE FOR IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Shatha N. QAIWER
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Unexpected Event ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Progressive Aspect ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Narrative Performance

This study focuses on tense variation as linguistic features of narrative performance using Schiffrin’s (1981) theory of tense variation supported by Labov’s (1972) and Ochs and Cap’s (2001) frameworks of narrative structure. It shows that historical present also performs evaluative function and appears in restricted clauses in progressive aspect indicating the overlap on time between two actions. Shifts into narrative past tense also perform an evaluative function and appears in contexts narrating unexpected event within the complication. Generic and nominalising actions are used to express negative evaluation of an opponent based on an earlier premise. These findings can bring new insights into the way politicians construct arguments in self and other presentation since nominalising negative actions implies comparing the self to an external other. This is achieved in association with stance taking and evaluative commentaries provided by politicians as strategies of positive self and negative other presentation. The study provides a detailed analysis of the linguistic features stated earlier in relation to identity construction and self-presentation exemplifying the use of HP

scholarly journals On Re-instantiation of Literary Dialects: A Systemic Functional Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 706
Author(s):  
Jing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
New Development ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
New Perspective

With the developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the functional approach to translation studies (TS) has offered new perspective into understanding how translation can be viewed as the re-instantiation of Source Text (ST) in another language system as Target Text (TT).In literary texts, language variations such as literary dialects have long been considered challenges in translation, but literary dialects are also believed to be “valued” linguistic elements since non-standard language such as dialects are socially related and may trigger linguistic stereotypes among readers. In tune with the new development in SFL, the current research focuses on the English translations of dialects in Li Jieren’s Si Shui Wei Lan (死水微澜) which is rich in Sichuan dialects and are with linguistically varied voices. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to briefly present the linguistic features of ST, revealing author’s intentional arrangement in his choices of dialects; secondly, with case studies to compare and discuss the translators’ choices in re-instantiating dialects from the perspective of coupling and commitment; finally, to offer suggestions for translating literary dialects. This paper argues that SFL helps translators pinpoint the linguistic features that are valued in ST and inform translators of alternative renderings. This paper adopts a descriptive approach to the triplet on how translators re-coupled and re-committed the language variations in the ST into TT, and it serves as a manifestation of how SFL applies to TS from a new angel.

scholarly journals THE PECULIARITIES OF CONVEYING THE SOCIAL STATUS OF FICTION CHARACTERS IN TRANSLATION (BASED ON J. FOWLES’ NOVEL «THE COLLECTOR»)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Anna Pidhorna ◽  
Olha Moiseienko
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Constituent Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View

The article is devoted to the sociolinguistic aspects of studying the social status and its reflection in literary texts through the speech of fiction characters. Particular attention is paid to the description of the key concept «social status» as a constituent element of the literary character’s image as well as to the research of the ways the character and his/her linguistic peculiarities are represented in the literary text. It was hypothesized that the character’s social status, education level, and worldview in general must be explicitly seen through the speech the author ascribes to the character. The article deals with the novel «The Collector» by J. Fowles and focuses on analyzing the speech peculiarities of its main character, Miranda. Her language is full of various stylistic devices and expressive means, which also testifies how open-minded this personality is, proves her ability to listen and accept different points of view. Miranda’s speech can be described as extremely poetic and emotional. Concerning key linguistic features of her speech, both lexical and grammatical ones can play a role in defining the character’s social status. The article also studies and analyzes the ways of reproducing the stylistic features in the Ukrainian translation of the novel made by G. Yanovska.

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