Foregrounding Techniques in the Yellow Dog by Martin Amis

Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

The English Philology Department

Syntactical Peculiarities of Postmodernist Text (based on the novel “Angels and Insects” by A.S. Byatt)

Diploma paper presented by CULKA BUHRABAR, a 5th year student of the English Philology Department; scientific advisor I. A. Bekhta, Dr. Sc., professor of the English Philology Dpt

LVIV – 2009 CONTENTS
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………3

Chapter 1. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF THE POSTMODERNIST DISCOURSE ………………………...……………………………………………9

1. The linguistic interpretation of the term of postmodernism ……………..9

2. The Postmodernist World View …………………………………….......10

3. The Philosophy of Post structuralism …………………………………..13

1.3.1. Text as the unit of intercultural communication………………………19 1.3 2. Textuality ............................................................................................21 1.3.3. Intertextuality..........................................................................................22

4. The syntax of the English postmodernist text...........................................24

1.4.1. Text syntax of the English postmodernist novel.....................................28 1.4.2. Sentence structure of the English postmodernist text............................33

Chapter 2. SYNTATCTICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE NOVEL ‘ANGELS AND INSECTS’ by A. S. BYATT……………………………………………. .38

2.1. Text Syntax of ‘Angels and Insects’ by A.S. Byatt…………………..39 2.2. Sentence syntax of the novel ‘Angels and Insects’…...………………44

CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………….53

РЕЗЮМЕ ………………………………………………………………………..55

LIST OF REFERENCES ……………………………………………………….56

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