Variety in Written English

Bex, Tony

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“…(p. 146) Whereas I do agree with Kress's defence of a holistic approach to the study of multimodal discourse, whether it is in media or any other variety of text, I differ from his restrictive definition of previous work carried out in more linguistic-based analyses. The kind of inclusive attention that Kress claims is necessary in the study of meaning creation echoes those of Cook (1992Cook ( , 1994, Bex (1996) and more recently Bray et al (2000). The latter, for instance, approach the creation of meaning in literary texts via the various 'marking' features such as punctuation, footnotes, epigraphs, white space and marginalia which, I would suggest, would not necessarily be covered in terms of punctuations as Kress defines them.…”

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Book Review: Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyday Life

Montoro

2002

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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in the interpretation of the text. The fact that 'very often we want to say the same kinds of things about the poems' (p. 17) seems remarkable in Jeffries's eyes. But the book's mission is to show how to base whatever we have to say 'upon known cause and rational deduction' (to borrow again Samuel Johnson's words). Even Mackay does this as he explores the stylistic features (lexical elements, locatives, enjambment, end-stopping) that have the potentiality of generating different responses in different readers. And when he reaches a point where he has to pass from the area of analysis into an area of subjectivity, all we can do is agree to differ.But the essence of the practical methods as presented by Contemporary Poems: Some Critical Approaches is that discordance and concurrence should be referred to the text after being closely analysed and prudently reasoned. Furthermore, the commentaries in these essays raise stylistic issues which are very stimulating and valid in a discussion on the linguistic nature of literature and the literary value of texts -issues which might lead the deliberation to new ground. They all, however, take for granted the clear distinction between stylistic analysis and the reading of literature. Stylistic observations are a discussion on literature and not a substitute for the actual reading of the texts themselves, although sometimes critical studies are misused as that. Pedagogically I believe that the experience of practical criticism should precede the study of critical theory and therefore I consider Contemporary Poems: Some Critical Approaches a useful compilation of critical approaches offering an expedient transition from practical techniques to theoretical consideration.

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Book Review: Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyday Life

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2002

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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kind of inclusive attention that Kress claims is necessary in the study of meaning creation echoes those of Cook (1992Cook ( , 1994, Bex (1996) and more recently Bray et al (2000). The latter, for instance, approach the creation of meaning in literary texts via the various 'marking' features such as punctuation, footnotes, epigraphs, white space and marginalia which, I would suggest, would not necessarily be covered in terms of punctuations as Kress defines them.

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Book Review: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd edn, Language in Society. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd edn

Watson

2002

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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kind of inclusive attention that Kress claims is necessary in the study of meaning creation echoes those of Cook (1992Cook ( , 1994, Bex (1996) and more recently Bray et al. (2000). The latter, for instance, approach the creation of meaning in literary texts via the various 'marking' features such as punctuation, footnotes, epigraphs, white space and marginalia which, I would suggest, would not necessarily be covered in terms of punctuations as Kress defines them. Bex's work focuses on the concept of genre but similarly identifies the importance of issues such as the placement of advertisements, possible slips of spelling, abbreviations, etc. in the case of hand-written adverts. My objection to Kress's suggestion is that linguistic studies, at least in the latter part of the 20th century, have embraced more eclectic positions in the analysis of meaning creation, which have brought them closer to a social semiotic stance.Bearing in mind the provisos mentioned I would recommend this collection both as a good example of a practical application and as a stimulating study full of interesting suggestions for further work in the field of media as well as those of literary, linguistic or cultural studies.

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“…This is done as a means of creating links between sentences in a text through the use of the grammatical resources of the language (Taiwo, 2010). This is the type of cohesion in which Bex (1996) states that cohesion can be seen as residing in the grammatical properties of the language. Grammatical items like pronouns, preposition, conjunctions, which are referred to as particles by some linguists, can be used to achieve cohesion in the same way the lexical items could be used to bring about cohesive ties in discourse (Ogunsiji & Farinde, 2013).…”

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Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

Alolade

2024

SALEE

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There is rarely any radio station that do not present programme on sports in the contemporary age. Most radio stations have their sports analysis in the various languages that their prospective listeners understand. It is possible because the issue of sports had become inevitable to the people irrespective of age, colour, and gender. It has become a unifying force among people of varied background. This, therefore, necessitated linguistic investigation into the grammatical properties utilized by sports analysts in their presentations on the radio. The study examines the occurrence of each grammatical property in enhancing cohesion in the presentations made by sports presenters on the radio stations. These grammatical devices include: reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Ferdinand Saussures Model of Language Structure on Syntagmatic Relation was utilized as the theoretical framework for the study. The data for analysis in the study comprised thirty sports presentations that were recorded and afterwards transcribed to examine the manifestations of the grammatical devices. The results from the analyses show that personal reference is the most prominent of all the types of reference. Nominal substitution and nominal ellipsis are the most recurrent of the types of substitution and ellipsis respectively. The striking manifestations of coordinating, subordinating, and additive conjuncts dominate the types of conjunction employed by the sports analysts on the radio. The study suggests that radio analysts should continually undergo programmes that will enhance their grammatical competence and as well see language as a weapon for expressing content and meaning by practically influencing their listener. Key Words: Conjunction, Discourse, Ellipsis, Grammatical Cohesion, Reference, Substitution,

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Variety in Written English

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Book Review: Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyday Life

Book Review: Intertextuality and the Media. From Genre to Everyday Life

Book Review: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd edn, Language in Society. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd edn

Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

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