Chap和ter 2 Procedure of Stylistic Analysis.pptVIP

Chapter 2Procedure of Stylistic Analysis Linguistic description Textual analysis Contextual factors analysis Linguistic Description Linguistic description refers to the exploration and classification of linguistic features of a given text. A linguistic feature is shown by its consistency and relative frequency. Linguistic Description The linguistic features are reflected by style markers which are linguistic items that only appear, or are most or least frequent, in a text, representing a particular variety of language or literary genre. Linguistic Description Leech and Short (1981) list four linguistic and stylistic categories when they expound (to explain sth. in detail) the methods of stylistic analysis of fiction: lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech, and cohesion (the state of sticking together) and context. Style in Fiction A checklist of linguistic description The Phonological Category The Graphological Category The Lexical Category The Syntactic /Grammatical Category Semantic Category Linguistic Description Frequency and distribution of linguistic feature for quantitative analysis is the focus of the interet in linguistic observation. 1.What are the supposed levels of analysis? 1)phonetic and graphic The former--the study of the characteristics and potential utility of human vocal noise The latter--the study of written or printed shapes of human vocal noise. Stress is laid on the physical characteristics of the language. Linguistic Description 2) phonological and graphological The former--the study of sound system of a given language The latter--the study of a language’s written system, or orthography Stress is laid on the contrasts made within the linguistic system—repetition of segmental sounds in a specific distribution, patterns of rhythm, intonation and other non-segmental elements, distinctive uses of punctuation, capitalization, spacin