CAN-CAN The text is head-lined CAN-CAN. The author of the text is Arturo Vivante. ARTURO VIVANTE was born in Rome and grew up in Italy‚ England‚ and Canada. He earned a medical doctorate from Rome University in 1949‚ but left his medical practice in the mid-1950s when his short stories began to be published. Now he lives in the United States where he has been a fuul-time writer for over thirty years. He has published two novels “A googly babe” (1951) and “Doctor Giovanni” (1969)‚ as well
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present-day English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration in form‚ i.e. zero-derivation (Cruse
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"Escape by W. Somerset Maugham" from Anti Essays‚ your source for free research papers‚ essays‚ and term paper examples. Stylistic Analysis “The Escape” by William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham (25.01.1874-16.12.1965) is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight influence of expressionism. Maugham wants the readers
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PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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What is a thesis? Your thesis is not your dissertation. Neither is it a one liner about what you are doing. Your thesis is "a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument." [Webster’s 7th New Collegiate Dictionary]. "I looked at how people play chess" is not a thesis; " people adapt memories of old games to play new games" is. Similarly‚ "I wrote a program to play chess" is not a thesis; "playing chess requires a database
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Simile - a kind of comparison in which two things are com¬pared be¬cause they have something in common though they are in all other respects different. The imagina¬tive compa¬rison is explicitly made with the help of like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. This simile suggests /implies / illustrates that ... Metaphor - a comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using the words like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is
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vocabulary structure)‚ grammar (analysis forms of words)‚ syntax (analysis the function of words in a sentence). These areas of study are more or less clear-cut. Some scholars claim that stylistic is a comparatively new branch of linguistics‚ The term stylistics really came into existence not too long ago. Problems of stylistic research 3. the number of functional styles The authors of handbooks on different languages propose systems of styles based on a broad subdivision of all styles into 2 classes literary
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Stylistics Lecture 2 Source: Halliday: ? Objectives You should be able to: 1. Define of the term stylistics 2. Explain the task of the stylistician 3. Explain the different phases of stylistic analysis 4. Explain what is involved in stylistic analysis. 5. Explain the difference between stylistics and discourse analysis Stylistics • Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts
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This book is based on the main principles and concepts of Decoding Stylistics. The term decoding stylistics (suggested by M.Riffaterre) stands for a trend in stylistics‚ a theory evolved by professor Irina Vladimirovna Arnold and developed by her numerous disciples (including the authors of the present book). As developed in this country Decoding Stylistics unites and applies the concepts and achievements of linguistics‚ literary criticism‚ text theory‚ poetics‚ hermeneutics to text analysis and
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