A Secret for Two by Quentin Reynolds
Mardari Tatiana Romanian-English, II group, third year
A secret for two by Quentin Reynolds Text Analysis The text is included in belle-letters as it doesn’t follow a rigid structure, terminological lexemes or other norms imposed by functional styles. It belongs to emotive prose as the author uses the language of fiction and directs his work to the achievement of aesthetic and cognitive function. So, the narrative code is present here and the work itself is a short story: •Short - Can usually be read in one setting (it presents a general picture of Pierre Dupin’s life; some characters ― Pierre Dupin, horse Joseph, Jacques, episodic: president, driver, doctor; it has small proportions: about 1025 words); •Concise: Information offered in the story is relevant to the tale being told (the narrator don’t escape from the main plot); •Usually tries to leave behind a single impression or effect (The story is built around one character ― Pierre Dupin, place ― Montreal, idea ― a good work is achieved by those who really find common ground); Going deeper to the pre-textual level, we can detect: the title constitutes a nominal syntagm which is compound from a secret – a noun, and for two – a numeral (it requests two people). Usually, a secret is kept by a single person but here we have a secret shared by two. Secret - something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), and it requests info, information - a message received and understood, and confidence - a secret that is confided or entrusted to another. The syntagm deals with human reality and it implies the consciousness and the spiritual sphere of human being. The title follows the orientative function: it gives general impressions about what will happen and what we should discover, it gives hidden hints; the informative function: we should find out something, the text tells something about two person; the pragmatic function: it rises reader’s interest as a secret usually
A secret for two by Quentin Reynolds Text Analysis The text is included in belle-letters as it doesn’t follow a rigid structure, terminological lexemes or other norms imposed by functional styles. It belongs to emotive prose as the author uses the language of fiction and directs his work to the achievement of aesthetic and cognitive function. So, the narrative code is present here and the work itself is a short story: •Short - Can usually be read in one setting (it presents a general picture of Pierre Dupin’s life; some characters ― Pierre Dupin, horse Joseph, Jacques, episodic: president, driver, doctor; it has small proportions: about 1025 words); •Concise: Information offered in the story is relevant to the tale being told (the narrator don’t escape from the main plot); •Usually tries to leave behind a single impression or effect (The story is built around one character ― Pierre Dupin, place ― Montreal, idea ― a good work is achieved by those who really find common ground); Going deeper to the pre-textual level, we can detect: the title constitutes a nominal syntagm which is compound from a secret – a noun, and for two – a numeral (it requests two people). Usually, a secret is kept by a single person but here we have a secret shared by two. Secret - something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), and it requests info, information - a message received and understood, and confidence - a secret that is confided or entrusted to another. The syntagm deals with human reality and it implies the consciousness and the spiritual sphere of human being. The title follows the orientative function: it gives general impressions about what will happen and what we should discover, it gives hidden hints; the informative function: we should find out something, the text tells something about two person; the pragmatic function: it rises reader’s interest as a secret usually