两封情书的文体学分析.docVIP

两封情书的文体学分析 　　摘要：从文体学的角度对两封情书进行了分析。通过对情书中所用的词汇、句子结构和修辞法三个方面的分析，揭示这两封情书各自表达的感情。 　　关键词：文体学；词汇；句子结构；修辞法 　　 　　1.Introduction 　　 　　The two love letters are chosen from the publication 100 World’s Great Letters, one of which was written by Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josèphine de Beauharnais in November 13th, 1796 and the other is from a very famous French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844—1923) to her lover Victorien Sardu. In the following, the different styles used in these two letters will be analyzed in terms of vocabulary, sentence structure and figures of speech in order to explore the different moods expressed in them. 　　 　　2.Stylistic analysis of the two letters 　　 　　（1）Vocabulary 　　In the first letter, lexical anaphora is used. It is the repeating of words in initial or front position. 　　In this device, words are repeated at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, stanzas or paragraphs. The pattern is (a…) (a…). (What do you do all day, Madam? What is the affair as important as to leave you no time to write to your devoted lover? …) 　　Besides anaphora, anadiplosis is used in the first letter, too. In anadiplosis a word in end position in a line or sentence is repeated in initial position in the line following. The pattern is (…a) (a…). (…, write me quickly four pages, pages full of agreeable things which shall fill my heart with the pleasantest feelings.) 　　（2）Sentence structure 　　Skillful writers exploit variation in sentence length to great effect to express different moods or attitudes, to describe action or events or to emphasize a point. 　　The two letters use more short sentences than long ones to emphasize the authors?feelings. For example, the first paragraph of the first letter (I don抰 love you, not at allol; on the contrary, I detest you——you’re a naughty, gawky, foolish Cinderella. …) and the last paragraph of the second letter (I am as hungry for them as for food. I am thirsty for them, and my thirst is overwhelming