ransposition of lexico-grammatical classes of nouns. Stylistic function of articles, genitive case, plural number. Stylistic functions of different grammatical categories in different parts of speech. 1) Stylistic transposition of pronouns. 2) Adjectives, stylistic function of degrees of comparison. 3) Stylistic functions of verbal categories. 4) Stylistic functions of adverbs. Style is less investigated on the morphological level than on any other one because very many scholars hold the opinion that stylistic connotations appear only when the use of grammatical phenomenon departs from the normative usage and functions on the outskirts or beyond the system of Standard language. Nevertheless stylistic connotations don’t …show more content…
Wilfred has emotions, hates, pities, wants; at least sometimes; when he does his stuff is jolly good. Otherwise he just makes a song about nothing – like the rest (J.Galsworthy) …”; “The peculiar look came into Bossiney’s face which marked all his enthusiasms”. Sometimes the forms of singular and plural of abstract nouns have different shades of the given abstract notion and are used for emphasis: “He had nerve but no nerves.” LGC of Material nouns as a rule have no plural but in descriptions of nature and landscapes they may be used in plural for the sake of expressiveness: The snows of Kilimanjaro, the sands of Africa, the waters of the Ocean. The same effect is achieved when PUs with nouns denoting weight and measure lose their concrete meaning and become synonyms to the pronouns much, many, a lot of, little, few: Tons of funs, loads of friends; a sea of troubles, a pound of pardons. Stylistic functions of articles The indefinite article before a proper name creates an additional evaluative connotation due to the clash of nominal and logical meanings (antonomasia):^ I don’t claim to be a Rembrandt. Have a Van Deyk? A century ago there may have been no Leibnitz, but there was a Gauss, a Faraday, and a Darwin (Winner).The indefinite article stresses a very high evaluation of the role of the scientists in the development of the world science. But very often the indefinite article before the name of ordinary people denotes negative
Explain how particular features of at least two of Wilfred Owen's poems set for study interact to affect your response to them.
Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. In at least 2 poems set for study, explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity.
Syntax surgery is a literacy tool that supports students to understand the sections of confusing texts. Syntax surgery you are literally doing surgery like a doctor but the patient is the word or the reading process. It helps the learner to slow down with the reading process and closely examine every part of reading like punctuation, phrases and words that maybe too critical for them to understand. The surgery helps the learner understand why the author uses different symbols. The students can make many notions of punctuations, nouns and pronouns and unknown words when the mentor is using syntax surgery they are using visual learning and mapping out the text.
The second level grammatical-rhetorical analysis aims to investigate the relationship between grammatical choice and rhetorical function in written English for science and technology. Discourse analysis as interaction represents the third level of language description. Most importantly, interactional analysis outlines the concept of interpretation of discourse by the reader or listener. Discourse analysis appears to have steadily moved from surface-level analysis to a deeper description of language use. However, in the context of language teaching for specific purposes, applied discourse analysis seems to represent a rather narrow description of language in use and is inadequate in its explanation. In order to introduce a thick description of language in use, it is necessary to combine socio-cultural and psycholinguistic aspects of text-construction and interpretation with linguistic insights to answer the question: why are specific discourse-genres written and used by the specialist communities the way they are? Genre analysis as an insightful description of English for specific purpose texts has become a useful and powerful tool to arrive at significant form-function correlations which can be utilized for a number of applied linguistic purposes.
This paper discusses the use of stylistic features in passing the message to the readers, with
b) with forms and the structure of words (morphology) and with their customary arrangement in phrases and sentences (syntax )
Fictional world . . . The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, settings, style dialogue and tone are literary techniques shown, through a selection of words, diction, one of the important literary elements, identify themes convey as part of the writer’s technique. For instance the author style, imagery is conveys vivid descriptive text: “Their manes were braided with streamers of sliver gold, and green.” Narrative, narrator first and third person, but what I read, interesting, the writer starts sentences with a prepositions and transitional words… As a writer, I will differently incorporated the author’s style in my writing . . . for example: “Or they could have none of that: it doesn’t matter”. “For more modest tastes I think there ought to be
The final quatrain highlights a depressing state of mind through assonance and alliteration. Words like ‘keen’, ‘deceives’, ‘me’, ‘tree’, and ‘leaves’ exhibit the assonance of the ‘ee’ sound. Although Hardy tries to keep a neutral opinion of his experience of love, beneath the surface, the reader is aware of the inner emotional turmoil that the author has experienced.
In Quiz Six, The Syntax quiz, I incorrectly answered question 2, the structurally and lexically ambiguous question. On question 2, it asked "I saw the guy with binoculars." is structurally and lexically ambiguous. Why? I had originally thought the answer was A. Lexically, "saw" can mean the past-tense of 'see' or a thing used to cut wood. However, after seeing the description, “When the guy is holding the binoculars, they are interpreted as the theme; when I am using the binoculars to see the guy, they are interpreted as an instrument.” I realized that I had read the sentence wrong. I know see that the correct answer is C Lexically, "binoculars" can be an instrument or theme. I know because I see that the sentence is lexically ambiguous because
Wilfred Owen uses Personification in line 2 this technique is used when the author gives an non human thing a human characteristics this technique allows the reader to relate and understand what the authors saying in the poem as it is a human characteristics given to an object. "Only the monstrous anger of the guns" personifying the gun mentioning it as angry gives an instant feeling of what the gun would have been like and paints the intense atmosphere in the scene. The war imagery is enhanced by the guns and given that the gun possesses the "monstrous anger" makes the war imagery more brutal. Simile an technique involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind.
Several poems in the anthology explore the intensity of human emotion. Explore this theme, referring to these three poems in detail and by referencing at least three other poems from your wider reading.’
Throughout twenty-centuries ago, writers thought that ordinary language and literary language were two different languages. But this is an analytical assumption. There is only one language, which
In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final conclusion is displayed.
Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive
He seeks to find underlying similarities across these “distinct” languages, to construct a general theory of a singular language. However, it seems as though he cannot be scientifically vindicated without the groundwork being laid down by many of the authors that he is critical of. Thus, it is particularly interesting that Chomsky seems to be so at odds with the idea of descriptivism. When Chomsky says, “Grammar should not be merely a record of the data of usage, but, rather, should offer an explanation for such data,” (587) he is acknowledging the usefulness, presumably to his own theories, of descriptive linguistics. He in fact recognizes the debt he owes when he says, “To me, it seems that [structural linguistics'] major achievement is to have provided a factual and a methodological basis that makes it possible to return to the problems that occupied the traditional universal grammarians...” (590) But he goes on to say, “On the other hand, it seems to me that the substantive contributions to the theory of language structure are few, and that, to a large extent, the concepts of modern linguistics constitute a retrogression as compared with universal grammar.” (590) Where the descriptivists see an end, Chomsky sees only the means, and is somewhat dismissive of them.