Graphological, Morphological, and Lexico-Syntactical Analysis of the Poem The Innocent Killings by Jasmine: A Stylistic Analysis

This study stylistically analyzes a poem, "The Innocent Killings", by an anonymous poet, Jasmine. The poem has been analyzed at morphological, lexico-syntactical, and graphological levels where thematic and foregrounding elements have been used. Moreover, the unique deviation and parallelism have been taken as a suggestion to the spirit of the age. Various stylistic features in the context of brutal terrorism have been employed in the poem to convey the denser ideas and traumatic sufferings of the nation. The researchers also explored the unique structure of the poem carrying different moods and troops with proper choice of dictions in each portion. The stylistic techniques in the poem move parallel to the tone of the mood, such as; the use of progressive verbs, abstract nouns, symbol device like "Jasmine", and lack of the main verb in the last three lines of the poem shows a failure to defend the nation from terrorist attacks

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A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Abulhawa's the Blue between Sky and Water

Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (RJSSER) ◽

10.36902/rjsser-vol1-iss4-2020(83-93) ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 83-93

Author(s):

Zahoor Hussain ◽

Samiullah Khan ◽

Muhammad Ajmal

Keyword(s):

American Literature ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

The Novel ◽

Lexical Categories ◽

Abstract Nouns ◽

Concrete Nouns ◽

Corpus Stylistics ◽

Method Approach ◽

Shed Light

Palestinian literature received significance after Nakba (1948 Palestine-Israel war) and Naksa (1967 Arab-Israel war) and it laid an impact on Palestinian writers and there emerged a new form of literature called Palestinian American literature which got recognition in the 1990s internationally. After Nakba and Naksa many Palestinian families migrated to America. These Palestinians wrote literature in English that is called Palestinian-American literature. The aim of the stylistic analysis of Abulhawa's work to trace out how the writer constructs reality through lexical categories. This thesis also analyzes the work of Palestinian-American writer Abulhawa's novel, The Blue between Sky and Water, and focuses specifically on how the writer achieves her aims. At the same time, this stylistic analysis of The Blue between Sky and Water shed light on the use of Arabic words in English fiction which represent the culture and identity of the Palestinian nation. It explores the dilemma of Palestine that they become a foreigner in their native land. The researcher employed a mixed-method approach to conduct the present study. The researcher used Corpus stylistics tools to analyze the novel. The researcher traced around 6288 concrete nouns and 1634 abstract nouns from the sample respectively. The extensive use of concrete nouns showed that the main purpose of the writer was to get homeland and this piece of writing was not only art for art sake rather art for life's sake. The researcher traced out around 1400 adjectives from the sample of study.

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A Stylistic Analysis of Adjectives in Selected Political and Religious Speeches

Al-Adab Journal ◽

10.31973/aj.v1i122.232 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (122) ◽

pp. 17-40

Author(s):

خولة شكر محمود

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

American President ◽

Abstract Nouns ◽

The World ◽

Attributive Adjectives

Politicians and religious figures usually rely heavily on their linguistic abilities to persuade their audience with their allegations because only through language can they shape their audience thoughts. Since adjectives play an important role in enriching the text, the current study is an attempt to explore their usage in selected political and religious speeches. It tackles three main aspects: first, whether the adjectives occupy attributive or predicative position. Second, whether they describe concrete or abstract nouns. Third, whether comparative or superlative degrees are used or not. The first speech was delivered by the American president John F. Kennedy in Rice stadium on September 12, 1962. The second speech was delivered by an eminent religious American figure, Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, at the closing banquet of the world Journalism Institute in Asheville on August 20,1999. Data analysis shows that attributive adjectives are used more than predicatives in the speeches under study. As far as the concrete and abstract adjectives are concerned, the abstract adjectives are more common than concrete adjectives in both speeches but Kennedy prefers concrete adjectives more than Dr. Carl. Concerning the comparative and the superlatives degrees, Kennedy uses more the comparatives and superlatives than Dr. Carl.

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Critical Stylistic analysis of the Concept of Extremism in DeLillo's Falling Man (2007)

10.31235/osf.io/u2awp ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Harir Aamer Ahmed ◽

Nawal Fadhil Abbas

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Model ◽

Linguistic Meaning ◽

Terrorist Attacks ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

The Media ◽

Falling Man ◽

Textual Meaning ◽

Shocking Event ◽

The Way ◽

Newspaper Articles

The increase in the number of terrorist attacks, especially the shocking event of 9/11 led to the wide coverage of topics such as terrorism and extremism. Such coverage is not only conveyed by the media and newspaper articles, but also by creating novels. As a result, the current study focuses on the concept of extremism. The hallmark of this study is to illustrate how such concept is ideologically embedded within a text. Thus, this study is confined to Don DeLillo's Falling man (2007). In this novel, DeLillo describes the trauma caused by 9/11 attacks. It is important to note that he recruits his language to mirror Islam as an extreme religion. To access the concept of extremism in this novel, the researchers will apply a critical stylistic approach. Therefore, the analysis will depend heavily on the textual conceptual model that is represented by Jeffries (2010) to uncover the hidden ideologies related to extremism. The aims of current study is to investigate the way the linguistic meaning is used as a vehicle for constructing the ideology of extremism in the selected novel; in addition to identify the textual meaning that underlies extremism in the selected novel. With the aid of critical stylistic tools, the researchers find out that DeLillo employs the use of certain linguistic choices in his novel. These choices tackle the concept of extremism focusing on the violent attitude behind such a concept with an attempt to link this concept to Islam and Muslims.

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External possession of body-part nouns in Dinka

Linguistics ◽

10.1515/ling-2018-0033 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 127-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Torben Andersen

Keyword(s):

Body Part ◽

The Body ◽

Default Option ◽

Noun Incorporation ◽

Abstract Nouns ◽

Grammatical Relation ◽

Main Verb ◽

Ditransitive Verbs ◽

Finite Verb

Abstract In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, body-part nouns may be externally possessed. External possession is possible and the default option if the body-part noun is semantically part of a transitive object, an unaccusative subject, or a copula subject. With transitive and ditransitive verbs, the external possessor is object, and with intransitive and copulative verbs, it is subject. Externally possessed body-part nouns have no grammatical relation to the verb, and they are restricted to occurring in dedicated syntactic slots of the clause, adjacent to a slot used by the main verb when the finite verb is an auxiliary. In transitive clauses, the body-part noun occurs immediately after that slot. In intransitive and copulative clauses, it occurs immediately before the same slot, and here a phonologically determined subset of the body-part nouns are morphologically marked by tone shift as being externally possessed. These facts suggest that the possessum forms some kind of unit with the verb that is reminiscent of noun incorporation. In Dinka, the referent of virtually any noun can be conceived of a having a body part, and therefore virtually anything can be an external possessor: pronouns, animate nouns, and inanimate nouns, including abstract nouns.

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Wounds and words: A lexical and syntactic analysis of Casocot’s “There are other things beside brightness and light”

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.17509/ijal.v10i2.28594 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 502-512

Author(s):

Veronico N. Tarrayo

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Experience ◽

Syntactic Analysis ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

Flash Fiction ◽

Psychological States ◽

Lexical Categories ◽

Abstract Nouns ◽

Concrete Nouns ◽

Demonstrative Pronouns ◽

Verb Tense

While there has been a sustained interest in conducting stylistic studies on fiction, specifically novels and short stories, the literature about stylistic analysis of flash fiction as a literary genre remains scant. Thus, the present study attempts to conduct a lexical and syntactic analysis of Ian Rosales Casocot’s “There Are Other Things Beside Brightness And Light.” The analysis was anchored in two of the four linguistic and stylistic categories proposed by Leech and Short (2007), namely lexical and grammatical. To communicate the narrator’s traumatic experience, the following lexical categories were found: words that evoke the main character’s recollected sensations, particularly visual; a Latin expression, and slang words; concrete nouns providing access to the feelings of the main character; abstract nouns connoting psychological or emotional processes; and adjectives depicting sensory imageries and representing, along with some verbs, psychological states that carry negative connotations. Stative verbs vis-à-vis dynamic ones echo the impressions of attachment and detachment, and memory in the story, which link to the adverbs of manner in the text. On the other hand, these grammatical features contributed to text interpretation: cumulative or loose sentences depicting a series of rapid thoughts of the narrator who recalls a traumatic experience; mini-paragraphs, i.e., text fragmentation, foregrounding the theme of the narrative; a verb-tense shift from past to future, and the demonstrative pronouns that and this representing the struggle of the narrator to escape from the vexatious memory of pain and trauma; and the em dash paving the way for the narrator’s emotional rumination. The stylistic analysis, particularly lexical and syntactic, provides a more objective and profound understanding of the underlying meanings of the FF under study.

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Are Emotions Abstract or Concrete?

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000374 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 64 (5) ◽

pp. 315-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Xu Xu ◽

Chunyan Kang ◽

Kaia Sword ◽

Taomei Guo

Keyword(s):

Lexical Decision ◽

Lexical Decision Task ◽

Well Being ◽

Event Related Potential ◽

Decision Task ◽

N400 Amplitude ◽

Abstract Nouns ◽

Concrete Nouns ◽

Emotion Concepts ◽

Healthy Participants

Abstract. The ability to identify and communicate emotions is essential to psychological well-being. Yet research focusing exclusively on emotion concepts has been limited. This study examined nouns that represent emotions (e.g., pleasure, guilt) in comparison to nouns that represent abstract (e.g., wisdom, failure) and concrete entities (e.g., flower, coffin). Twenty-five healthy participants completed a lexical decision task. Event-related potential (ERP) data showed that emotion nouns elicited less pronounced N400 than both abstract and concrete nouns. Further, N400 amplitude differences between emotion and concrete nouns were evident in both hemispheres, whereas the differences between emotion and abstract nouns had a left-lateralized distribution. These findings suggest representational distinctions, possibly in both verbal and imagery systems, between emotion concepts versus other concepts, implications of which for theories of affect representations and for research on affect disorders merit further investigation.

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