should be able to: 1. Define of the term stylistics 2. Explain the task of the stylistician 3. Explain the different phases of stylistic analysis 4. Explain what is involved in stylistic analysis. 5. Explain the difference between stylistics and discourse analysis Stylistics • Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts language structures. • Basically‚ this means that Halliday
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area of the present and upcoming generations. Discourse communities have evolved greatly over time allowing users to redesign computer mediated communication. Each discourse community is made possible by the use of unique commonplaces where shared values and goals are identified. Active.com facilitates communication among athletes in our nation. Their community emphasizes competition‚ healthy nutrition and training. Through the use of this discourse community‚ athletes can take part of a team outside
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Machiavelli analyses the strengths and weaknesses of both auctorial governments and monarchal governments in his works The Prince and The Discourses. According to Machiavelli‚ governments‚ no matter what form they take‚ descend into corruption. Aristocracies become oligarchy’s‚ monarchies become tyrannous‚ etc. (Machiavelli‚ 111). Thus‚ Machiavelli states that the superlative governmental system is for all three forms of ‘good governments’ to be combined under one constitution. In this way‚ each
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As previously stated‚ one of Machiavelli’s major works‚ referring directly to The Discourses on Livy (1517)‚ argues that the purpose of political power is to promote a “common good”. Meanwhile‚ The Prince presents a ruler less worried about the “common good” and more concerned about maintaining and expanding political power at all costs. “Laws make men good‚” states Machiavelli in book one of the discourses‚ after a long explanation about how men created politics to create order. At first
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and pragmatic principles of composition as well as its social functions. (Shu‚ 1995‚ p17; Liu‚ 2000‚ p36) Actually‚ political euphemism has always been a point of penetration for foreign political linguists to evaluate and criticize political discourse. In the recent years‚ with the establishment of the selected English newspaper reading course in many Chinese colleges‚ English political euphemism began to attract people’s attention. However‚ it is mainly confined to its disguising function (Pan
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To what extent has theory and research on families been successful in transcending the individual-society dualism. One of the interrogative themes in social psychology is that of individual-society dualism refers to the extent to “whether the individual or society is privileged in the explanation of social psychological phenomena” (DVD). There has been a great deal of psychological theory and research into the composition of families and the subsequent construction of self in children‚ however
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given the idea that literacy is not just the ability to read and write but it is mush more than that. It is the knowledge of different "discourses" which are part of our personalities and the knowledge of the beliefs and values connected to these discourses. He also gives the idea of a liberating literacy which "can be used as a meta-language or a meta- discourse ( a set of meta-words‚ meta-values‚ meta-beliefs) for the critique of other literacy and the way they constitute us as persons and situate
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can be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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University of Babylon College of Education for Human Sciences Department of English/ PhD Programme A Theoretical Survey of Gambits A term paper Submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements of a PhD course in Discourse Analysis by Ahmed Sahib Jabir May‚ 2013 1. Introductory remarks It is an agreed upon fact that language is mainly used to fulfil two basic functions: the first is the transactional function which is related to the communication of information and the
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more sounds or syllables Ex. gonna = going to; wannabe = want to be; wassup = what is up Elision The omission or slurring [eliding] of one or more sounds or syllables Ex. gonna = going to; wannabe = want to be; wassup = what is up Discourse marker Words and phrases which are used to signal the relationship and connections between utterances and to signpost that what is said can be followed by the listener or reader Ex.
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