Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/09639470231160579
Richard Ingham, Michael Ingham
This paper builds on findings on variation in Elizabethan grammar, analysing the syntax of negation in a large number of Shakespearean stage dramas and those of his contemporaries. It shows that Shakespeare differed substantially from them grammatically and stylistically. His contemporaries most often adhered to the emerging standard pattern of avoiding Subject-Verb syntax and multiple negation, whereas Shakespeare made much greater use of it, especially in coordinate contexts. In other contexts, use of multiple negation by other authors was usually for characterological purposes, whereas in Shakespeare it is employed as a stylistic resource regardless of the character’s social standing. These findings are interpreted against the background of sociolinguistic research on diachronic English syntax, showing that higher-status individuals led the change away from multiple negation. The differing outcomes are related to Shakespeare’s provincial background and non-participation in a university milieu, distinguishing him from the ‘golden triangle’ background of his contemporary dramatists.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158694
C. Ononye, Innocent Chiluwa
Studies on Niger Delta (ND) poetry have applied stylistic and discourse analyses in exploring the metaphorical elements of the deplorable ecological condition of the region, but how these elements have been used in creating an alternative positive image of the ecology, especially in Otobotekere’s poetry, has not attracted enough scholarly attention. This study examines metaphors in selected poems from Otobotekere’s My River. The poems were subjected to critical analysis, with insight from conceptual metaphor theory, phenomenonalistic construal, and aspects of ideology discourse. Three conceptual metaphors were observed with their respective phenomenalistic interpretations: the Niger River is a parent (sourced from the construal of ancestry, seasons and source), Niger River flow is entertainment (from the construal of theatrical display, music making and journey) and contacting Niger River is therapy (from the construal of relaxation and care giving). The mappings are associated with three natural traits imaginarily projected by the river, namely, identity, recreation, and comfort. Identity relates to the parental posture of the river, recreation deals with enjoyable nature of it, while comfort has to do with the care derived from coming in contact with the river. Through these metaphorical descriptions, Otobotekere is able to inscribe the ND ecology with an admirable landscape, which seems like an attempt by a former oil worker at greenwashing or changing the predominant ideological outlook of the environment. Thus, conceptual metaphors in Otobotekere’s poetry, with their phenomenalistic interpretation, demonstrate that there is still something positive about the ND ecology.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158695
Mel Evans
This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through the lens of a specific language category: the interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as a resource in the dramatic dialogue of three Restoration playwrights: Aphra Behn, John Dryden and Thomas D’Urfey, and how their preferences and practices of use compare to previously identified trends in the history of English. Using the concept of the repertoire as a frame for situated language use, the paper examines how genre, time, and characterisation shape the selection and frequency of interjections in the plays of each author. Corpus linguistic methods are used to provide a quantitative and qualitative overview of each author’s interjection repertoire. The results suggest that whilst genre, time, and characterisation are influential in shaping the selection and implementation of interjection forms, the choice of expressive language in dramatic contexts is also distinctive and coherent at an authorial level.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.1177/09639470231158696
Fan Yang
This article investigates power dynamics reflected in the conversations between characters in Arthur Miller’s written text, A View from the Bridge, from the perspective of pragmatic stylistics. Given that techniques from conversation analysis have proven feasible and effective in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, this article analyses and interprets the development of power relations in the Carbone family by means of turn-taking patterns. In general, this article argues that Eddie’s authority is consecutively undermined in front of Catherine, while his control over Beatrice is gradually reinforced. Moreover, Beatrice’s manipulation of Catherine is continuously challenged. Based on the above results, this article demonstrates that the changing power relations are a fundamental cause of family conflicts and the final tragedy. Therefore, this article shows that turn-taking analysis is a new way of explaining how we understand dynamic power relations between characters in this dramatic text.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152291
Shaoqiang Zhang
From the beginning of her book, Intralingual Translation of British Novels. A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective, Linda Pillière catches the attention of her readers. The opening scene is set in a bookshop where you stand with different editions of the same book in your hands and, as you ponder, the revelation occurs: Is this a copy, an adaptation, a new edition? A translation, perhaps? What happened in the editorial process when adapting this book for a geographically different audience? From the differences at the paratextual level (cover, illustrations, typeface, footnotes) to the stylistic choices (lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation), Pillière reminds us that the changes in a text are not irrelevant. Ultimately, there seems to be a reason behind everything in the editorial market, for “[i]f they did not influence the potential buyer, major publishing houses would not spend time and money on reformatting texts. The world of publishing is, let us not forget, first and foremost a commercial enterprise” (24), writes Pillière.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152293
Cassandra S. Tully
{"title":"Book Reviews: Estilística de corpus: Nuevos enfoques en el análisis de textos literarios","authors":"Cassandra S. Tully","doi":"10.1177/09639470231152293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470231152293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"32 1","pages":"376 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44984790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09639470221147786
Antonia Stoyanova
As one of the master stylists of our time, John Banville has honed his own unique style of writing. The typical Banville novel is a first-person confessional narrative of an aging male character troubled by his painful memories of failure and loss. In a struggle to cope with their traumatic life experiences, Banville’s protagonists attempt to find answers to haunting existential questions and rediscover their identities in the face of emotional fragmentation. This sense of dislocation and displacement thus emerges as a major theme of Banville’s fiction and his works generally revolve around the internal conflicts of a ‘divided self’. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the language of the novels reflects the inner split of the characters and what linguistic mechanisms Banville exploits to create the ‘divided self’ effect. This article examines a particular linguistic structure used as a pervasive narrative feature: sensory modality. I will more specifically explore sensory modality patterns with co-referential subject and object pronouns (referred here as ‘special effects’) analyzing them in the light of Systemic Functional Grammar as mental transitivity processes and will demonstrate how they constitute a powerful stylistic tool for constructing the image of the divided personality and for conveying self-disunity in retrospective novels.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-05DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152297
Yu Deng
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152295
Raphael Marco Oliveira Carneiro
{"title":"Book Review: Cognitive grammar in stylistics: A practical guide","authors":"Raphael Marco Oliveira Carneiro","doi":"10.1177/09639470231152295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470231152295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"32 1","pages":"166 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44352564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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