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: 10.1177/09639470221147786
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 : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152293
Cassandra S. Tully
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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}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470221140693
K. O'Halloran
I present a posthumanist approach to literary interpretation using stylistic analysis. It is posthumanist since i) digital cameras/audio-video resources and editing applications prompt multimodal readings of literary works unlikely from human intuition alone; ii) anthropocentrism in literary texts is defamiliarised. I highlight how stylistic analysis can be used productively for developing multimodal creativity in posthumanist reading by motivating audio-video edits and effects. I model using Anne Brontë’s poem ‘Home’ (1846). When read only with intuition, ‘Home’ communicates young Brontë’s yearning for her family home. In contrast, this article has a non-intuitive digital multimodal realisation of this poem where a young Californian stuck in London because of pandemic (Covid-19) travel restrictions yearns for her home state in the aftermath of wildfires linked to anthropogenic climate change. This posthumanist transformative reading, flagging the negative repercussions of humans for their planetary home, defamiliarises the poem’s anthropocentric normality. Importantly, I show how stylistic analysis of ‘Home’ motivates creative use of audio-visual edits and effects in the posthumanist multimodal reading. The article makes contrast with standard interpretive practice in stylistics (‘humanist stylistics’). It also reflects on the value of posthumanist stylistics for extending students’ creative thinking in an educational context.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1177/09639470221147788
Sara Bartl, E. Lahey
Most stylistic analyses of literary texts begin with the text proper, largely ignoring the paratextual elements that precede it. The extent of this lacuna within stylistics is so great that a search through the back catalogue of Language and Literature, stylistics’ flagship journal, returns no results for contributions whose titles contain the terms ‘title’ or ‘paratext’. In what follows we underline the implications of this neglect through findings which point to the import of titles for readers’ interpretive processes. Drawing on our analysis of a 58-million-word corpus of book reviews from the online retailer Amazon.com, the research reported on here provides evidence for what many theorists have claimed but for which they have often provided no empirical support, namely, that titles contribute to the establishment of reader expectations about a text.
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