Research on the Reform of Assessment under the Blended Teaching Mode:Taking the Teaching Practice of English Stylistics in Guangdong Technology College as an Example

English Stylistics is provided as an elective course by the Business English major at Guangdong Technology College,whose evaluation mechanism significantly impacts how well students learn the language.A novel assessment model is put forth in this study with the intention of transforming from a single summative assessment to a combination of formative and summative assessment in light of the shortcomings of the current assessment methodology in the course.In order to take advantage of blended teaching and integrate the online and offline learning resources of English Stylistics,all-round reforms have been carried out at multiple levels,including teaching content,teaching methods,and assessment approaches.Therefore,a more reasonable and diversified assessment method has been adopted to more comprehensively reflect students’learning objectives and proficiency in foreign languages.

有特征的文章整体与有特征的语言形式——中国古代文体论与西方Stylistics的本体论比较

在中国古代文体论中,“文体”范畴的基本内涵是指具有特征性的文章整体;而在西方stylistics中,style的基本内涵是指具有特征性的语言表达方式。“文体”与style尽管具有一定程度的异语对应性,但仍然是无法等同的两个异质范畴:从具体层面看是文章整体与语言表达方式的区别,从本体层面看有生命整体观与工具(语言)本体观的不同。差异的揭示有助于准确把握中国古代文体论的独特品质。

The Application of Stylistics on College English Teaching

Stylistics is the description and analysis of the variability of linguistic forms in actual language use. The concepts of 'style' and 'stylistic variation' in language rest on the general assumption that within the language system, the same content can be encoded in more than one linguistic form. Operating at all linguistic levels (e.g.lexicology,syntax, text linguistics, and intonation), stylisticians analyze both the style of specific texts and stylistic variation across texts. These texts can be literary or nonliterary in nature. Considering all the disadvantages in the college English teaching, it is necessary that stylistics be applied on the college English teaching, which can stimulate students' learning, improve their cognitive English knowledge and relive their interest on English.

An Analysis of Speech and Thought Presentation in “A Sunrise on theVeld” from Stylistics Perspective

An analysis of speech and thought presentation in"A Sunrise on the Veld"is made from stylistic perspective in this essay.Through analysis of different kinds of speech and thought presentation,the psychological changes of the protegonist is explored.The analysis reveals the stylistic effect of the alternation of speech and thought presentation.The use of alternation of speech and thought presentation contributes a lot to the success of this novel.This method of Stylistic analysis provides the readers a new perspective of appreciating the novel.

Literary Stylistics Analysis ofThe Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher"is one of the most famous fictions of Edgar Allen Poe.He creates a suffocating horri ble atmosphere with many detailed descriptions.In order to realize the extreme terror effect,he pays much attention to the word selection and the sentence construction.Literary stylistics focuses on studying the unique characteristics,the choices of language and writing skills that the author adopts,and deeply analyzes the thematic meanings and artistic values of the literary work.This paper devotes to explore this fiction from three aspects:lexical level,grammatical level and discourse level to see how the author creates a horrible and gloomy atmosphere and deepens the theme of the fiction.

Application of Stylistics in English Intensive Reading

Stylistic study concerns itself with the situational features that influence variations in language use,the criterion for the classification of language variety,and the description and interpretation of the linguistic features and functions of the main varieties(both literary and non-literary) of a language.At present,it is still a controversial topic about the difference between the literature and the non-literature.Actually,the boundary between the literary and the non-literary is not very clear,but vague.If we apply the language of exquisite AD to the literature class and discuss them together with poetry,its "literariness" and "aesthetic value" will not be less awe-inspiring.

Computer Mediated-Communication and Stylistics

Cyber language is a third language,which lies between spoken language and written language.Cyber language consists of three elements:1) technical terms that are related to computer science and network technology;2) new words and phrases that are related to cyber culture;and 3) cyber slang that is used mainly in CMC(Qin Xiubai,2003).Cyber language has its own linguistic features at four levels,namely,phonology,graphology,lexicon,syntax,and discourse.

The Stylistics Analysis of Internet Language

Internet language is the product of modern technology, especially for the advancement of Information Technology. It is a social and linguistic phenomenon which has its own stylistic and rhetoric patterns and styles compared with other languages.The reasons for the emergence of Internet language can be summarised into three kinds: firstly, the netizens need distinct languages to show their personalities and enhance the impacts of languages such as sadness, angriness and happiness; secondly, the keyboard makes it hard to type the whole sentences when people online chatting or other activities; lastly, it is fast and convenient,especially when some online activities are time-consuming. Internet languages make the most use of the functions of linguistic deviation and satisfy the psychological and practical needs of netizens.

Novel Machine Learning–Based Approach for Arabic Text Classification Using Stylistic and Semantic Features

Text classification is an essential task for many applications related to the Natural Language Processing domain.It can be applied in many fields,such as Information Retrieval,Knowledge Extraction,and Knowledge modeling.Even though the importance of this task,Arabic Text Classification tools still suffer from many problems and remain incapable of responding to the increasing volume of Arabic content that circulates on the web or resides in large databases.This paper introduces a novel machine learning-based approach that exclusively uses hybrid(stylistic and semantic)features.First,we clean the Arabic documents and translate them to English using translation tools.Consequently,the semantic features are automatically extracted from the translated documents using an existing database of English topics.Besides,the model automatically extracts from the textual content a set of stylistic features such as word and character frequencies and punctuation.Therefore,we obtain 3 types of features:semantic,stylistic and hybrid.Using each time,a different type of feature,we performed an in-depth comparison study of nine well-known Machine Learning models to evaluate our approach and used a standard Arabic corpus.The obtained results show that Neural Network outperforms other models and provides good performances using hybrid features(F1-score=0.88%).

Story Theme in Literary Stylistics and Functional Stylistics

Story Theme has been one of the major concepts in both literary criticism study and stylistic study.The essential characteristics of story theme might be summarized as being subjective and inter-subjective,social and generalized,pervasive throughout the whole text but covered,conventional and recoverable,and multi-faceted.This paper mainly discusses two stylistic approaches to story theme study.Literary stylistic approach focuses on the covert side and multi-levelness of story theme;while functional stylistics attaches much importance to the mechanisms that function to realize story theme.

Stylistics Analysis of A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is a short story by American writer William Faulkner first published in April 30, 1930. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi. This article is going to analyze A Rose for Emily from the perspective of stylistics.

Literature and the Teaching of Stylistics： An Investigation Into the Pragmatics of Community Formation in the Educational Context of Namibia

The author＇s paper is an attempt to investigate the success of the pedagogy of stylistics and pedagogical stylistics in the Namibian context. As an applied linguistics course, stylistics is eminently suitable for study and analysis of literature, because it clearly explicates literary effects through linguistic analysis. Many scholars have illustrated the use of stylistics analysis for the purposes of studying literature and teaching it, which is, pedagogical stylistics. However, this paper combines both the study of Stylistics as a discipline, which is the pedagogy of Stylistics, and the use of stylistics for teaching literature in general and poetry in particular. Namibia adopted English as its official language 22 years ago. Since then, both teachers and students have been struggling with the analysis of poetry. This study is an empirical one using qualitative methods in the author＇s research to determine the impact of the study of Stylistics on the understanding and teaching of literature in Namibia. The author uses traditional British poetry from the 16th century up to the 20th century alongside postcolonial poetry to assess the importance of culture in understanding poetry and examine the advantage of using stylistics to teach the poems that the author selects.

Death or Rebirth in The Snows of Kilimanjaro——A Literary Stylistics Reading

Scholars have studied The Snows of Kilimanjaro from different angles, but few have focused on the stylistic features of it. If approaching The Snows of Kilimanjaro from the perspective of literary stylistics, readers will find the following: The fiction seems fragmented and difficult to understand, but the employment of repetition, parallelism, symbolism, metaphor, pun, oxymoron and stream of consciousness technique makes it a unified whole. The repetition of"death"by Harry himself and the use of symbolism lead readers to understand the final ending of Harry: death out of gangrene. Also, through repetition, a character that has no love and who regrets over his waste of talent is presented to the readers. The use of stream of consciousness technique provides readers with a window into Harry's past life and his deeply poignant personal regret. Harry has the potentiality to make achievements in writing, but he, disillusioned by war, wasted his talent due to lying, laziness, incontinence, and indulgence in comfort life. He had died spiritually even before he got infected. The rescue by the plane is just Harry's illusion, and the rebirth of him may only be the author or the readers'expectation.

Stylistics and college English test

Language learners can hardly develop their communicative competence and aesthetic appreciation of literary works without the awareness of stylistics. Since CET-4 and CET-6 direct college students in China, as learners of English as a foreign language, what to learn and how to learn English, they naturally reflect the importance of stylistics. This paper gives a stylistic analysis of the listening and reading part in CET-4 and CET-6 to show it is important for non-English majors to have some knowledge of stylistics.

Grammar and Stylistics (cont.)

2.2.3. Simple and Complex Sentences There is no general answer to the question whether a writer should use simple/one-clause sentences or complex ones. But choice between those two structures should not be made without considerations. Generally speaking, if the aim of the writer is to provide the reader with a complex structure of ideas and a complex reading experience, then complex sentences are preferred. If the writer uses a succession of simple sentences, there will be no obvious indication of relationship between the ideas conveyed in each separate sentence. Nor will there be any indication of the relative importance of the sentences. Therefore, simple sen-

Phonetic Features of The Road Not Taken——from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics

Having drawn widespread attention and appreciation,Robert Frost's poem—The Road Not Taken is known to be rich in thematic sensation and meaning.In exploring the enduring charms of this poem,the present paper attempts to analyze it on the phonetic level in perspective of literary stylistics through which the poet enhances the aesthetic beauty in sound.

Metaphor in Imagist Poetry from the Perspective of Stylistics

The imagism is a poetic movement that came out in the 20 th century. In the former period, the poets depend largely on semantic deviation to juxtapose absent and abstract images with readers'familiar and concrete images. In the collision of the images, the readers may sense the beauty of the images and the poets'imagination."Jacobsen points out that the transition from the Modernism to post Modernism is a transition from metaphoric language to metonymic language."(Brooks, 2004) In the later imagist poems, the language becomes metonymic but the uses of metaphor dose not disappear in the poems. The later imagist poets depend on graphological deviation, using language symbols to present the images so as to make the readers feel a different beauty.

Stylistics Course and the Literature Appreciation： Take The Portrait of a Lady for an Example

Both stylistics and literature are important courses for the English majors. How to apply stylistics theory in the literary analysis is important. The paper aims to provide some introduction of stylistics, its major domains and its contribution in analysing literature. It is suggested that characteristics of the language in a particular context can be identified within the guidelines of stylistic categories and that a better comprehension as well as appropriateness and effectiveness of the examined text can be achieved. With the help of stylistic analysis of novel The Portrait of a Lady （1996） by Henry James, its style can be appreciated from phonological, lexical and grammatical aspects.

The Analysis of the Characters' Speech in The Color Purple from the Perspective of Narratological Stylistics

The Color Purple is the master work of the outstanding black woman writer Alice Walker. Since it was published, there are both praise and criticism towards it, while the artistic value is unblamable and it can be said to be the classic work in American literature. The book tells the story of a woman from the south of America who gradually awoke and pursued her happiness suffering from the oppression and humiliation of the patriarchal society. The work successfully retells the life experience of Celie the protagonist. The thesis, based on the narratological stylistics, analyzes the narrative method and style of The Color Purple and thus discusses the unique narrative form, the artistic charm and the stylistic value of the novel.

A Study of T he Color Purple from the Lexical Feature of Literary Stylistics

The Color Purple is one of the most outstanding works of Alice Walker, and more and more people keep close eyes on the novel. In the thesis, it is intended to explore Alice Walker's writing style from a stylistic perspective, trying to explain how the"meaning"of The Color Purple is created through the writer's linguistic choices and narrative techniques, and to appreciate the beauty and strength hidden under the surface.