The stylistic analysis of literary language in relation to English teaching in Hong Kong

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-wing, Philip Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
English Teaching

Towards a new convergence between Anglo-American and Russian literary linguistics: “mind style” and “kartina mira”

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben W. Dhooge
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Mutually Independent

AbstractAnglo-American and Russian stylistics influenced each other substantially in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1980s on, however, this fruitful mutual influence came to an end. The two schools started to grow apart, but despite that, they would develop almost parallel to each other, displaying many theoretical and methodological similarities. The present paper illustrates this by highlighting one such specificity – the idea of the possible reflection of one's conceptualization of the world in the use of literary language, and the possibility of reconstructing that conceptualization by means of a stylistic analysis (‘mind style’–‘kartina mira’). By comparing the Anglo-American and Russian theories on the topic, it is shown that the separately evolved conceptions are similar and even complement each other: the differences between them clarify and help solve possible theoretical and methodological gaps. Moreover, the juxtaposition of both conceptions allows us to perfect the notion of ‘mind style’ and its practical applications. A similar approach to other conceptions and tendencies in current seemingly mutually independent Anglo-American and Russian stylistics have the same potential, and may lead to a new convergence between the two schools.

scholarly journals Literary meaning as character conceptualization: Re-orienting the cognitive stylistic analysis of character discourse and Free Indirect Thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Eric Rundquist
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Style Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
Literary Meaning

AbstractThis article establishes the theoretical bases for a more direct and detailed exploration of fictional minds in cognitive stylistics. This discipline usually analyzes narrative discourse in terms of how readers process language and conceptualize narrative meaning, treating literary language more or less explicitly as a window into readers’ mental experiences. However, it is also possible to treat literary language as a window into characters’ minds, which, in spite of their obvious fictionality, could enhance the potential for cognitive linguistic analysis to inform our understanding of the human mind and consciousness more generally. This article explores the nature of linguistic meaning in different speech and thought presentation techniques primarily through the lens of Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, ultimately prioritizing the representational semantics of Free Indirect Thought. It proposes a more precise understanding of the concept of ‘conceptualizer’ which would validate a type of mind style analysis that is more narrowly focused on illuminating the underlying mental activity of fictional characters instead of readers. It demonstrates this type of focus with a brief analysis of a passage from Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend.

scholarly journals Linguosophy “slavery – freedom” in drama of Lesia Ukrainka “in the catacombs”

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Svitlana Bybyk
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
Linguistic Basis

The article offers a stylistic analysis of Lesia Ukrainka’s drama “In the Catacombs”. The basis of the research methodology is the linguosophical approach, ie the projection of the topic – the main idea – issues, features of social and ideological conflicts on the linguistic basis of the work. Emphasis is placed on the lexical and grammatical manifestations of the interaction of rhetoric of “high”, “neutral” and “low” registers for the advantages of the first two. In this regard, communication with theological, evangelical and everyday topics is differentiated. Emphasis is placed on the stylistics of the antithesis, the symbolism of the text, the textual interpretation of precedent names. It is established that the first helps to stylize the debatability, polylogical communication of the characters, the second – to express the philosophy of the boundaries of earthly and spiritual being. It is emphasized that the interpretation of precedent phenomena in Lesia Ukrainka corresponds to the author’s strategy of expressing the socio-political position of the intellectual in imperial Russia of the late XIX – early XX centuries. Changes in the textual semantics of the tokens slave, will have been traced. It is noted on the role of the text of the drama “In the Catacombs” in the development of the literary Ukrainian literary language as a means of glorifying the ability of the Ukrainian nation to compete.

scholarly journals Stylistics and the Teaching of Advanced English for Senior English Majors

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1346
Author(s):  
Chuanmei Kang
Keyword(s):  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Majors ◽  
Senior English

This paper first briefly reviews that stylistics is applied to the teaching of English by scholars both abroad and in china, then discusses what and how to do stylistic analysis, and then by means of three sample analyses it aims at illustrating the view that as an effective method, stylistic analysis is conducive to improving students’ abilities of reading and appreciation, and it concludes that it is both necessary and practical to apply stylistics to Advanced English teaching.

scholarly journals Schema Theory and Text- worlds: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Selected Literary Texts

2020 ◽  
pp. 52
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Real World ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
World Theory

Cognitive stylistics also well-known as cognitive poetics is a cognitive approach to language. This study aims at examining literary language by showing how Schema Theory and Text World Theory can be useful in the interpretation of literary texts. Further, the study attempts to uncover how readers can connect between the text world and the real world. Putting it differently, the study aims at showing how the interaction between ‘discourse world’ and ‘text world’. How readers can bring their own experience as well as their background knowledge to interact with the text and make interpretive connections. Schema and text world theories are useful tools in cognitive stylistic studies. The reader's perception of a particular text world depends on her/his existing schema during the process of interpretation. The selected texts for the study are "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen, "In Winter" by Corbett Harrison and the opening passage of David Lodge's novel Changing Places which are intended to show how the two theories can be integrated to account for the way in which text worlds are perceived. So as a result, readers start establishing meaning based on their schemata and these meanings change through adding a new one. The cognitive ability to understand literary texts and how readers build mind worlds is a crucial aim in cognitive poetics. An in-depth cognitive stylistic analysis reveals significant points about reading and interpreting the selected literary texts by providing a way of thinking about background knowledge and how the individual's experience would influence their interpretation and viewing of the text world.

scholarly journals Communicative and Stylistic Potential of New Yoruba Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions on The Label of Alcoholic Drinks

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Dayo Akanmu
Keyword(s):  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Idiomatic Expressions ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
Linguistic Strategy ◽  
Almost All

This paper investigated issues expressed with these idioms as well as the strategy for using them for various modern alcoholic drinks in Yoruba land. The paper adopted Mukarovsky's theory of Standard Language based on its ability to explain the deviant nature of the new Yoruba idioms as well as explaining 'differencia specifica' between the language of everyday conversation and Literary Language. Data were collected from different beer joints in Lagos State and Ògùn State respectively as States where most of these drinks are produced. Eventually, data were subjected to stylistic analysis. In all, sex is the only issue that was expressed. Sex, which was peculiar to all the alcoholic drinks, occurred in the context of 'eroticism', 'vulgarity', 'sexual style', and 'sexual positioning'. Only the metaphorisation linguistic strategy was employed for the coining of the idioms and was differentially derived from nominalizations, phonaesthetic coinages, and compositions. Nominalisations, compositions, and phonaesthetic coinages occurred in almost all the labels, and they were contextualized in eroticism ('Ọ̀ṣọmọ', 'Alọmọ', 'Ògidigà' and 'Ọ́ríjìn (ọ rí i jìn?); sexual style (Kòbókò, Kerewa, Pakurumo) while Dadubule revealed sexual positioning. New Yorùbá idioms, used to express-socio economic and emotive issues in routine communication, occurred in mediated and non-mediated contexts and were conveyed through metaphorisations. These idioms rethe flect dynamism and modernity-constrained stylistic choices in Yorùbá discourses.

scholarly journals Stylistic Study of Adjectives in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 328
Author(s):  
Rabia Faiz ◽  
Musarrat Azher ◽  
Ijaz Asghar ◽  
Iqra Jabeen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
And Gender

The present research explores the choice of adjectives as a lexical category in Mohsin Hamid’s novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by using Leech and Short model (1981). An empirical enquiry is carried out to trace the author’s choice of adjectives and their intended functions by subjecting How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia to stylistic analysis and linguistic scrutiny. The various functions of adjectives are interpreted after the text is subjected to close reading for their contextual occurrence where they are carefully engraved by the author. The resultant functions throw ample light on the life, culture, economic scenario and love and gender relations construed in the text through adjectives. The present paper, however, is limited only to the interpretation of the adjective categories based on the model suggested by Leech & Short (1981). This study is, therefore, instrumental in initiating a voyage to interpret literary language via linguistic tools and evidences contributing amply to the field of stylistics as well as literary criticism. 

8. English Language as Governess: Expatriate English Teaching Schemes in Hong Kong

2012 ◽  
pp. 133-157
Author(s):  
Eugene Chen Eoyang ◽  
Pauline Bunce ◽  
Vaughan Rapatahana
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Teaching
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