The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

Burke, Michael

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“…The actor does the doing and the goal is affected by the action. Burke (2017) explains "there are different kinds of material process which account for the scope of 'materialness'". An example from 'A Hanging': "The prisoners [actor] can't get [material process] their breakfast [goal].…”

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Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness’ in Orwell’s A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis

Alam

2020

ASSRJ

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This paper is an interdisciplinary study of Orwell’s queer-literary genre piece i.e. “A Hanging” with an insight into the “unspeakable wrongness” across that 1931short story / essay by the application of Halliday’s linguistic tool of “Transitivity”. The functional linguistic theory of transitivity is very instrumental in exploring “ideational meaning” about the “on-goings” of characters’ material and mental world as expressed and documented in literature. Albeit comparatively less noticed, Orwell’s “A Hanging” is a superb experiential documentation of his intolerance and disapproval of all unspeakable wrongness in all forms found in “colonialism”, “imperialism”, and “capital punishment”, discovery of all of which through the story has an extended significance and current century relevance. The study comes up with a convincing “cosmopolitan call” for the abolishment of capital punishment. Orwell goes as a narrator mentally aloof from his imperialist fellows and stands as one “odd out” with a deciphered “anti-imperialistic” impulse inside him which marks out colonialism as the very wrong “metamorphosing” power that is in itself demoralizing and makes it a huge impossibility of “equity” among universal humanity. Orwell ended up with a “Geliliolic discovery” of imperialism paving the way of only “oppression and deprivation” of the colonized and injecting a “generic moral decay” inside them; so Orwell cuts his professional “cohortship” with this giant, wrong, inhuman system that practices far-fetched, unconvincing “power imbalance” on earth by taking away the powerless races’ “freedom of speech”, and that bursts into a large scale of “moral decay” and “hollowness” of human hearts.

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Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness’ in Orwell’s A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis

Alam

2020

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“…Dentro de la literatura anglosajona, por ejemplo, figuras de referencia como Virginia Woolf (Adolphs y Carter, 2002;Balossi, 2014), Joseph Conrad (Stubbs, 2005), William Shakespeare (Culpeper, 2009), Jane Austen (Fischer-Starcke, 2010) o Charles Dickens (Hori 2004Ruano San Segundo, 2016), entre otras, han sido analizadas utilizando enfoques de estilística de corpus. Sirvan también como botón de muestra los manuales en los que ya se incluyen capítulos dedicados exclusivamente a este enfoque (Burke, 2014;Sotirova, 2016) o los proyectos que adoptan la estilística de corpus como eje vertebrador de su aparato analítico, como el CLiC Project, sobre la novela decimonónica inglesa en general y la obra de Charles Dickens en particular , o el Shakespeare Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project (Shakespearelang, s.f. ), sobre el lenguaje literario de William Shakespeare.…”

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Metodologías de corpus en el análisis de textos literarios en lengua española: el ejemplo de Pérez Galdós = Some kinds of corpus analytic test in Spanish literature: the case of Pérez Galdós

Caballero

2018

Estud. humanist., Filol.

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En este artículo se aborda el potencial de los estudios de corpus en el análisis de textos literarios en lengua española. Para ello se ha utilizado la obra narrativa de Pérez Galdós, que ha sido comparada con un corpus de referencia formado por novela realista española. El estudio se centra en la proyección del discurso por parte de los narradores del universo galdosiano y en las implicaciones estilísticas de aspectos tradicionalmente desapercibidos para la crítica.This article looks into the potential of corpus approaches in the analysis of literary texts written in Spanish. To do so, the fictional narratives of Pérez Galdós have been scrutinized. They have been first compared to a reference corpus made up of nineteenth-century canonical, later to analyze them separately. The analysis has focused on the reporting of characters’ verbal discourse by the narrators of Galdós’s novels and on stylistically significant aspects hitherto unnoticed.

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“…Stylistics, or 'literary linguistics' as it is once called, is the analysis and study of the language of literary texts. Burke (2014) claims "Stylistics nowadays is a field of study that confidently has one foot in language studies and the other in literary studies" (P. 2). In linguistic studies, stylistics provides contemporary linguistic techniques and ideas for literature research (Leech & Short, 1981).…”

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“…Besides, the purpose of stylistics is investigating language, and examining creativity in the use of language more precisely (Simpson, 2004;Segundo & Caballero, 2016;Page, et al, 2019;Hakemulder, 2020). More to the point, Burke (2014) states that stylistics differentiate between story and discourse and between content and style and narratology. The two differences appear to match one another on the surface, with the meaning of "style" to how the material is depicted and with the meaning of "discourse" to how the stories are narrated.…”

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Speech and Thought Presentation in Chance by Alice Munro: A Stylistic Analysis

Zebari

Mohammadzadeh

2021

ALLS

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This study analyses the speech and thought presentation in Chance, a short story written by Alice Munro. The study aims to analyse how the speech and thought of the characters in the short story are presented. The concept of speech and thought presentation is dubious and complex. This study distinguishes speech and thought presentation and identifies either the characters responsible for representing their speech and thought or the narrator whose speech or thought gets to represent in Munro’s short story. The present study follows the speech and thought presentation techniques of Leech and Short (2007). The present study found out how the author used the categories of speech and thought presentation in the short story with all of their categories except DT. The findings of the study revealed a total of 293 speech and thought presentations in the short story. 235 presentations belong to speech presentations, and 58 to thought presentations. FDS and DS are the most occurred speech presentation within the short story which enabled the author to make her characters seem independent of the narrator. The FDS technique suggests that the context of speech in the story is clear enough, referring to whom the speakers are. FIS is the least occurred presentation within the short story. Besides, DT is not found in the whole short story. Munro has given the importance to the external speech rather than internal thought. The study results indicate that wareness towards speech and thought presentations leads to a better understanding of the literary texts.

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The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

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Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness’ in Orwell’s A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis

Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness’ in Orwell’s A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis

Metodologías de corpus en el análisis de textos literarios en lengua española: el ejemplo de Pérez Galdós = Some kinds of corpus analytic test in Spanish literature: the case of Pérez Galdós

Speech and Thought Presentation in Chance by Alice Munro: A Stylistic Analysis

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