Linguistic devices

them? In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” the response of Mrs. Mallard, who lives with a heart disease, to the news of the death of her husband is illustrated through many stylistic techniques. With the usage of literary devices such as diction, imagery, and linguistic elements, Chopin elucidates the transition between sorrow, relief, and irony of the narrative. To begin with, Chopin utilizes mournful

Structuralism and its different approaches to literature Structuralism was developed in France in 1950’s as an approach of reading literary texts. Structuralism seeks to understand that no element can be understood separately. It attempts to understand a work of art in the context of the larger structures they are part of. Structuralism is a way of thinking and activities which is chiefly concerned with the perceptions and descriptions of structures. In this regard, Terence

the window or a complaint which implies that someone should have known better than to keep the windows open when expressed emphatically. The speech act of making a request is one of the most widely scrutinized speech acts in both cultural and linguistic studies because of the fact that it is made up primarily of an illocutionary act, where the speaker is asking the listener to perform a given act (Beltran et al.). "Therefore, this speech act has been regarded as one of the most threatening speech

Imagination In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “ A Dream within a Dream” there are many examples of poetic devices. Poetic devices are used to help people develop a better understanding of the poem that they are reading. One example of a poetic device is the use of figurative language. Figurative language is defined as using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. Another example of a poetic device is imagery. Imagery appeals to our five senses taste, touch, sight, hearing, and smell. Authors

The two previous studies exemplify that the quality of language input and early onset has significant effects on linguistic and sub-linguistic mechanisms. It calls into question whether input quality is predictive of later sign language skills in deaf education program settings. In spoken languages, the quality and quantity of language input is predictive of a child’s later linguistic abilities (Cartmill et al., 2013). However, most deaf children entering education have hearing parents, creating

a reward in the form of praise or encouragement. As this conditioning goes on, the closer the child gets to the adult model of utterance the more parental rewards that he/she gets. Thus, the operant conditioning relies on the learner producing a linguistic behaviour that is progressively shaped through rewards, until the desired behaviour is achieved (Saxton,2010,p.90). Skinner’s explanation of language acquisition soon inspired a critique and rival explanation from Noam Chomsky. Chomsky argued

The types of texts that are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of the communication are called functional styles of language (FS); the special media of language which secure the desirable effect of the utterance are called stylistic devices (SD) and expressive means (EM). ' . . The first field of investigation, i.e. SDs and EMs, necessarily touches upon such general language problems as the aesthetic function of language, synonymous ways of rendering one and the same idea, emotional

mastering an accent that sounds close to a native speaker. So what is critical age hypothesis? Critical Age Hypothesis also known as critical period hypothesis. The definition for critical period hypothesis is a subject of a long-standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age. This hypothesis claims that there is an ideal time window to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment, after which further

and expressive needs. The characteristics of the language of literature have attracted the attention of scholars of linguistics and they have studied this special variety of language under the discipline called ‘stylistics’. Stylistics has developed as an important area of applied linguistics which investigates and describes the language in literature at various level of linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Stylistics has greatly contributed to the understanding of literature

which language use has been integrated in the selected poems. It is also aimed at analyzing some of the distinctive features that give the selected poem their identity. To fulfill the aim of the study, it hypothesizes that Eliot exploits certain linguistic deviations as an essential way to make his poem more expressive. So as to examine the proposed hypothesis, certain representative examples have been chosen from the poem for the sake of analysis. Some stylistic features are investigated