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Consideration of linguistic variation is inherent to pragmatics, especially where such variation relates to contextual factors, an area where it frequently converges with work on stylistics. This article reviews certain relevant contributions made from the perspective of style analysis (literary studies, sociolinguistics, and systemic functionalism) and outlines certain approaches to a stylistics of language, centred on Buhler's threefold division into symptom, signal and symbol. Lastly, illustrations of this approach are given, touching too on the ideological dimension, with reference to questions of analysis. Summary 1. Preamble 2. Literary studies 3. Social and functional variation 4. Symptoms, signals and symbols 5. Some objects for the application of stylistics 6. Conclusions 7. Bibliography 1. Preamble It is certainly not an easy task to define the limits of stylistics with respect to neighbouring disciplines such as rhetoric, microsociolinguistics or pragmatics. The label...
In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.
13-17 Stylistics in language and literature.pdf
VEDA PUBLICATIONS, 2018
Language as we all know is an important or should I say an indispensable tool for human communication as it is through language that knowledge is transferred, meaning is created and understood ensuring social as well as scientific development of human society. It’s true not only for speech but also in writing, both being two of the most potential uses of language. After becoming a university subject in 1960s English language has being the target of literary critics. They have accused the linguists for being too dry when it comes to analysis of a piece of writing. And the linguists have accused the literary scholars for being to subjective, imaginative unambiguous for the same task. To bridge the differences or the gap between the two, stylistics a branch of applied linguistics functions to analyse the use of language literary texts. However it's not limited to the study of literature alone but is also stretched to varieties of writings like texts related to media and journalism, the advertisements etc. This paper is an attempt to explore the link between language and its most creative use that is Literature. Through this paper I aim to show the features of language and creative uses under which these forms are put to appeal to human senses and make a piece of literature alive whether it's romance, tragedy or comedy.
Intricacies of Pragmatic Aspects in Literary Text
International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2021
The article presents the main theoretical prerequisites for studying the pragmatics of the literary text. Determining the functions of the text as a means of communication in all a variety of its manifestations refers to the fundamental problems of linguistics.The general problems of the theory of the text, the questions of the pragmatics of the literary text and the observables of its impact and perception are considered. The pragmatics of the text as a global category, which is a mandatory property of each text and reflects the attitude of the addressee to the object of communication, to the communicative act itself and through it to the address.
Speakers' Communicative Intention in a Piece of Writing
Traduction et Langues , 2012
The aim of this paper is to highlight the distinction between what is said and what is meant, in a word the textual meaning and the contextual meaning. Hence, the author of this study tries to put a line of demarcation between semantics and pragmatics, taking into consideration the speaker's background and intention as well as the hearer's understanding of the same speech act produced. It also shows the difficulty of interpreting utterances in a real speech situation as well as in speeches in writing. A good example from Jane Eyre is given to illustrate the hypocritical religious man who allows for his own children what should definitely be forbidden for the orphans. Consequently, his speech act is expressed by a flagrant contradiction. Then a brief literature review explores Lehrer's scaling method about the similarities and the differences in meaning of language in context. Finally, this humble study argues that what is usually presented in literary texts is not always understood through its semantic meaning because it is never explicitly explained. Therefore, the reader should be aware of all factors even the interlocutors' degree of familiarity.
DISCOURSE AND STYLISTICS: METHODS OF ANALYSIS
In the wake of a revolutionary change of interest from language form to language function, attention of many language scholars have been shifted from the structural pattern of language to the function the language is used to perform in social discourses. The present study is one of such endeavours, and essentially explored the fields of Discourse and Stylistics by pointing out their different, but related, methods of text analysis. A brief analysis of an excerpt of President Muhammadu Buhari's Democracy Day Speech of 29 th May, 2015 revealed that Discourse investigates more and reproduces more meaning from a text than Stylistics. Stylistics is only a tool used in Discourse.
The Pragmatic Theory of Literature
2006
The meaning of any text is best realized when linguistic competence and pragmatic theory of language are taken into consideration. Novels are best understood in terms of Speech Act Theory since they represent a macro-text act (to use Hatim and Mason's {1990} term). Novels are reflections of the real world with real speech. The real reader is part of the context ,thus, part of the interpretations of the utterance. This is due to the fat that a real reader receives the intention of the real author who wants to achieve a certain perlocutionary effect on a certain socio-cultural context. Consequently, tackling any literary text without pragmatic theory constitutes a real problem. As a result, the present research attempts to answer the following question: Can Speech Act Theory be successfully applied to literature, and can fictional and conversational Speech Act be analysed and established similarly? 1-1 An Introduction Pratt (1977: 86) provides another way of which SAT (speech act ...
Chapter 7: Pragmatics and Discourse
English Historical Linguistics. , 2012
This chapter provides an overview of the most widely studied discoursal/pragmatic phenomena of Early Modern English discourse: speech acts, address terms, politeness, discourse markers, and (other) discourse strategies. The Early Modern English period is assumed here to cover approximately three hundred years, starting shortly after the introduction of the printing press to England in 1476; thus, some scholars may want to place several of the studies included here within the late Early Modern English period or at the beginning of the Modern English period (see, e.g., Jucker 2000, 7; Görlach 1991, 9; see also Lewis's chapter on Late Modern English pragmatics, this volume). This chapter also highlights (researchers' awareness of) the importance of considering the "interplay between the individual, language and society" (Palander-Collin forthcoming) when seeking to explain discoursal/pragmatic phenomena of times past.