Stylistics-1-2.ppt

Stylistics-1-2 Teaching Objectives 1. learn some theries of stylistics (sound, gramma, meaning); 2. learn to use stylistics to analyze texts (from literary and non-literary sources, including the English of literature, advertising, news reporting, science and technology, legal documents,etc. ); Example (From a novel)After a quarrel between the two lovers: With a flow of words, she started to argue with him, then she checked herself and said calmly, “listen, John, I imagine you’re tired of my company. There’s no sense in having tea together. I think I’d better leave you right here.” “That’s fine,” he said. “Good afternoon.” “Good-by” Example Advertisements: 1. If people keep telling you to quit smoking cigarettes, don’t listen—They are probably trying to trick you in to living.(公益广告) 2. She wants to put her tongue in your mouth. 这句话出现在一则只有一个笑不露齿的中年妇女大半身照的广告上; 这是什么广告?这句话是什么意思呢? Stylistics 1. Stylistics-- Simply defined, it is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use. 2. Object of stylistics: it studies the stylistic features of the main varieties of language, covering 1). functional varieties功能变体 from the dimension of fields of discourse (different social activities), 2). formal vs informal varieties from the dimension of tenors趋向 of discourse (different addresser-addressee relationships), 3). spoken vs written varieties from the dimension of modes of discourse (different mediums). 4). various genres体裁 of literature (fiction, drama, poetry) in its study. Terms 1-1. What is Language?? 1). Modern linguistics (Saussure) regards language as a system of signs. 2). American structuralism结构主义 represented by Bloomfield regards language as a unified structure, a collection of habits. 3). From the late 1950s on, the fact that ‘man talks’ and the implications of this human capacity have been at the centre of investigation in the linguistic sciences. The tra