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.

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.

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-

A Study of Three Chinese Versions of Nineteen Eighty-four from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics and Narratology

This paper makes a comparative study of three Chinese versions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four by applying the theories and methodologies of literary stylistics and narratology.The study first scrutinizes the distinctive stylistic features and narrative forms of the source text(ST)and then continues to examine whether these features and forms are successfully represented in the target text(TT).Moreover,it seeks to answer the questions of why“deceptive equivalence”occurs and how the“literariness”in the fiction can be retained and stylistic equivalence can be achieved in translation.

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.

A Stylistics Analysis of Foregrounding in Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Hemingway in 1927. The story of Hills Like White Elephants takesplace in an unknown small railway station in northern Spain. A young couple are waiting for the express to Barcelona. The storystarts the dialogue of the novel, which is simple and easy to understand, but vividly describes the rich inner world of the protagonists.The novel with only a few thousand words vividly shows Hemingway's unique narrative style. Hemingway uses irony, symbolism,semantics level and syntax level to depict the psychological state of characters. The Foregrounding theory of stylistics is usedto analyze the theme text and the style of Hemingway from two aspects—Deviation and Over-Regularity.

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.

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.

Retranslation Studies on Three Chinese Versions of The Dead from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics

Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of literary stylistics is new.The Dead is thefinal and best-known story of Dubliners.This paper aims to analyze three Chinese versions of The Dead in the perspective of liter-ary stylistics in order to test the validity of retranslation hypothesis.

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.

Comparative Stylistics Analysis of Obituary and Memorial Speech

The obituary and memorial speech are the two main types for the memorial of a dead person. The obituary is the writing style while memorial speech is delivered by speaking. They have many similarities and differences in many categories. In this paper, a comparison of the two styles at phonological level, graphological level, lexical level, syntactic level, semantic level and other levels will be given. They will also be compared with other related styles briefly. Finally, the author will figure out outcome of the study and give conclusions.

Foregrounded Beauty: A Brief Analysis of Cummings' Typical Poems from the Perspective of Stylistics

E. E. Cummings is one of the representatives of American modern experimental poets whose poems are well-known for the unique style. Cummings endeavors to make his poems be different from other poets'. He broke the traditional way of writing poems, invented in the changing of lines of the poem and the spelling of the words in the poem, thus to make his personal poem style distinctive. Therefore, standing on the stylistic point of view, this paper makes a brief analysis on Cummings' typical poems from foregrounding perspective.

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.

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.

Scientific Methods for Stylistics

The present article argues that stylistics as a discipline has made little progress over the past decades,and that one major reason for this is a severe lack of methodological consciousness(and knowledge).This demands the formulation of quite explicit hypotheses,opening the possibility of independent data analysis,often also opening new perspectives on unforeseen aspects of a problem.In doing so a point is reached where statistics becomes unavoidable for the analysis.Two kinds of statistics are needed:descriptive statistics(to detect patterns in the data,patterns that our daily intuitions are unable to uncover),and more importantly,inference statistics(to estimate in how far one can generalize one's findings).Examples are given to show results that are reliable,interesting and unexpected.They show us which of our intuitions are right and which ones are not.In other words:they inform us about what we are and how we function as human beings.

A Feeling for Literature:Empirical Stylistics

In this paper I examine the contribution of feelings to the reader's literary understanding,focussing on aspects of response that have been studied through the use of empirical methods.I first provide a review of several components of feeling that have been found of importance in literary reading.I then focus on the role of feelings at several different levels.At the level of the stylistics of the text I consider studies of response to foregrounding and phonetic iconicity.At an intermediate level I look at a study of how feelings help to characterize episodes in narrative.Lastly I present a study at the largest scale(comprising a whole short story) of the role of feeling in elaborating an unreliable narrator,working largely through the comments of one reader.As a whole,the paper offers evidence for the range and variety of literary phenomena that draw on the capacities of feeling.