Analysis: Good Friends
Friends. Good friends – and such good friends.
The text under analysis is an essay Friends. Good friends – and such good friends. Written by Judith Viort. It belongs to the publicistic functional style.
As professor Galperin defines it, “an essay is a literary composition of moderate length on philosophical, social, aesthetic or literary subjects. It never does deep into the subject but merely touches upon it.” The most essential feature of the essay is personality of approach to the subject of study and relative freedom and naturalness of expression, which is definitely contrary to the scientific way of presentation.
The language peculiarities of this stylistic variety are: * Laconism of expressions; * First person narrative; * Wide use of connectives; * Abundance of emotive words; * The use of stylistic devises and expressive means which are as a rule trite: the exception is descriptive type of an essay.
There is a difference between an essay and a speech. An essay is more lasting and it bears more responsibility if compared to speech calculates for immediate effect. Essays presuppose an individual approach to the interpretation of facts.
The essay we deal with may be referred to the descriptive on the one hand as the author describes different types of friendship and also reflective because the author contemplates about the types of friendship, referrers to her own experience and referrers other people experiences as well.
The title of the essay is Friends. Good friends – and such good friends. The author introduces the subject matter of it. It already becomes clear that she is going to classify types of friendship Friends. Good friends – and such good friends in a form of gradation. Before starting her classification Judith Viort describes her attitude to a classical type of friendship, the way she used to treat friendship: “Women are friends, I once would have said,…” then goes a classification with the help of imperative sentences:
The text under analysis is an essay Friends. Good friends – and such good friends. Written by Judith Viort. It belongs to the publicistic functional style.
As professor Galperin defines it, “an essay is a literary composition of moderate length on philosophical, social, aesthetic or literary subjects. It never does deep into the subject but merely touches upon it.” The most essential feature of the essay is personality of approach to the subject of study and relative freedom and naturalness of expression, which is definitely contrary to the scientific way of presentation.
The language peculiarities of this stylistic variety are: * Laconism of expressions; * First person narrative; * Wide use of connectives; * Abundance of emotive words; * The use of stylistic devises and expressive means which are as a rule trite: the exception is descriptive type of an essay.
There is a difference between an essay and a speech. An essay is more lasting and it bears more responsibility if compared to speech calculates for immediate effect. Essays presuppose an individual approach to the interpretation of facts.
The essay we deal with may be referred to the descriptive on the one hand as the author describes different types of friendship and also reflective because the author contemplates about the types of friendship, referrers to her own experience and referrers other people experiences as well.
The title of the essay is Friends. Good friends – and such good friends. The author introduces the subject matter of it. It already becomes clear that she is going to classify types of friendship Friends. Good friends – and such good friends in a form of gradation. Before starting her classification Judith Viort describes her attitude to a classical type of friendship, the way she used to treat friendship: “Women are friends, I once would have said,…” then goes a classification with the help of imperative sentences: