文体学复习一

1、.文体学复习1、Style: Manners indicating prominent linguistic features, devices or patterns,most (or least) frequently occur in a particular text of a particular variety of language. (有许多种，此为 in this book, general, linguistic-oriented), P52、Stylistics:is a branch of linguistics which studies in a scientifi

2、c andsystematic way concerning the manners/linguistic features of different varieties of language at different levels.?Literary stylistics: concentrates solely on unique and overall linguistic features of thevarious genres of literature. （考点）The development of stylisticsThe scope of studyThree cruci

3、al aspects of speech: Substances sounds and symbols; Form; Situation3、Stylistic analysis: is generally concerned with the uniqueness of a text(what is peculiar to the use of language in a given text for delivering the message). This naturally involves comparisons of the language of the text with tha

4、t used in conventional types of discourse. Stylisticians may also wish to characterize the style of a given text by systematically comparing the language uses in that text with those in another. Thus, we may conclude that stylistic analysis is an activity which is highly comparative in nature.Practi

5、ce 5. Analyze the following text.Policeman: What s your name,boy?Black psychiatrist: Dr. Poussiant. I m a physician.Policeman: What s your first name, boy?Black psychiatrist: Alvin.?The word boy may be used to address a male inferior. In above conversation, theform is used to address a physician, wh

6、o is usually accorded high respect in the USand is addressed as -andDr.-soSo (Title + Surname). Insistently using the form boy the white policeman shows his racist contempt of and prejudice against the black people.4、Linguisticdescription:refers to the exploration and classification oflinguistic fea

7、tures of a given text.'.每个 category 下面的各个分类(1) The Phonology Category: Phonology here is used to refer to the system of speech sounds in a language.(2) The Lexical Category: Lexis is used here to refer to the choice of words.(3) The Syntactic/Grammatical/Category:Syntax is used here to refer tor

8、ules for ordering and connecting words into sentences.(4) Semantic Category: Semantics is used here to refer to the meaning of words,expressions, etc. and by what means the meaning is conveyed from the addresser to the addressee.Procedure of linguistic description1) Work systematically through the t

9、ext and note down points we feel of some stylistic significance respectively under the various headings.2) Quantify the frequency of a linguistic feature.3) Assess the importance of stylistic features.4) Make statements about the overall linguistic picture of the text in question, bringing together

10、diverse features to show how they form a coherent, integrated pattern, and making judgments about or interpreting the significance of such patterns in relation to the context of the text as a whole.5、（ 1）Text: A text is any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that formsa unified whole. A

11、 text is then a semantic unit, a unit not only of form, but also of meaning. A text is realized by a sequence of language units, whether they are sentences or not.Cohesive devices:Implicit connectivityExplicit connectivity1) Transitional words/phrases2) Grammatical device Ellipsis Substitution Coref

12、erence3) Lexical reiteration材料 Examine the following conversation, find out whether linguistic units in it are overtly cohesive or not.A: See who that is.B: I m in pyjamas.'.A: OK.? Linguistic units in the conversation are not overtly cohesive. In this text, the relevance of B sremark to A first

13、 remark is conveyed by pragmatic implication.“ I m in pyjamas” implies an excuse for not complying with A s command (=“ Ncan t, because I m in pyjamas.” ) A s impliessecondthatremarkheaccepts B s excuseand undertakes to do himself what he originally asked B to do (= OK. I ll go myseand see. ” Texts

14、are therefore recognized as appropriately coherent in actual use. A full understanding of a text is often impossible without reference to the context in which it occurs.（ 2）Context: Context refers to all elements of a communicative situation. (One is“linguistic context”, referring to the linguistic

15、units preceding and/or following a particular linguistic unit in a text. The other is “extra-linguistic context”or “context of situation”, referring to the relevant features of the situation in which a text has meaning. )Contextual factors: Field of discourse( 语场 )：the institutional setting, private

16、 or public, in which apiece of language occurs, embracing not only the subject matter in hand(正在进行中的主要的事情 ), but the whole activity of the speaker or participant in a setting, which corresponds to Hallidays“ideational function”of language. Tenor( 语 旨 ) ： The participants, their education, social sta

17、tus, therole-relationship between the addresser and the addressee; the degree of intimacy; the degree of social distance. (It s concerned with who is taking part in the exchange of meaning -the relationship between the speaker and the listener, their relative status,their attitude, and their role re

18、lations.) Mode( 语式 )：the medium of communication the graphic signs visual orsound waves auditory by means of which a message is conveyed from one person to anther; Channel; channel limitation; other detailed choices, the functions of language in the particular situation.?Practice 4. Analyze the foll

19、owing conversation(Jenny comes to Alan s house. She is conducting a survey for the government.)Alan: Won t you come in, Miss-er-.Jenny: Cartwright, Jenny Cartwright.Alan: I m Alan Marlow. (Alan shows Jenny into the living room.)Alan: Oh won t you make yourself comfortablJenny?,(After some minutes of

20、 talk, which is omitted here)Jenny: Mr. MarlowAlan: Call me Alan. (The Marlows, Episode 11)The context shows clearly that Alanand Jenny are totalstrangers. The'.conven-tional address form between strangers is Title + Sur-name(Mr./MissSo-and-so). But Alan addresses the girl by her first name and

21、later asks her to do thesame. His adoption of first-naming is an example of the manipulation of language. Itis a move towards a friendlier relationship, indicating that Alan does not want theirencounter to be formal and distant, as it is customary between strangers. In contrast,Jenny chooses to rema

22、in formal and distant by addressing Alan as“ Mr. Marlow ” .Linguistic Items6、Speech sounds:(1) Stress: Stress refers to the prominence of sounds. It is the result of extra forceused in pronouncing a particular word or syllable. a) To show emphasis; b) To show surprise, anger, doubt, horror or excite

23、ment; c) To distinguish meaning of identical words or phrases. P23(2) Pause: Pause refers to the brief interruption of the articulatory process betweenconsecutive linguistic units such as sounds, syllables, words, phrases and sentences.a) voiced pause or filled pause; b) silent pause Function : P23(

24、3) Pitch: This relative height of speech sounds as perceived by a listener is called“pitch” and to indicate different feelings or attitudes, such as agreement, doubt, surprise, delight, scorn, abhorrence, or hatred. a) The falling pitch; b) The rising pitch;c) The fall-rise pitch; d) The rise-fall p

25、itch; e) The level pitch; f) The fall-plus-rise pitch. (各用在什么情境下，有什么作用 P2425)(4) Tempo: Tempo refers to the speed of speaking. Tempo reflected inmonosyllables: a) quick and clipped syllables; b) loose and drawled syllables; c) slow and held syllables. Tempo reflected in sentences: a) the quick “alle

26、gro”; b) the slow “lendo”; c) the increasing “accelerando”; d) the decreasing“rallentando”. Function: Generally speaking, a quick tempo indicates excitement, surprise, agreement, happiness, indignation, whereas a slow tempo usually indicates confusion, emphasis, disagreement, hesitation, sadness,tir

27、edness, low spirit or disappointment, etc.7、Graphological Items the study of writing system of a languageGraphological level the expression or realization of language in its writingsystem(1)Punctuation ( the dash破折号 , the colon 冒号 , the exclamation mark 感叹'.号 )；各自用处效果(2) Capitalization(3) Italic

28、s 斜体(4) Paragraphing （分段）：Paragraphing refers to the way in which a text isdivided into paragraphs. It is a device to reveal the relational structure in a text, the organization of the content.各自用处效果8、Lexical Items(1) General or Specific(2) Anglo-Saxon or Latinate(3) Other Lexical Items9、Syntactic/G

29、rammatical Items(1) Clause TypesClause: A clause forms a sentence or part of a sentence. It is a group of wordswhich form a grammatical unit and which contains a subject and a finite verb, often functioning as a noun, adjective or adverb.1) In terms of the clause constituents, there are 5 basic type

30、s:2) In terms of the structure of the verb phrases (if any) in a clause: Finite clauses are clauses in which the first or the only verb phrase is a finiteform.E.g. He finished his work before leaving the classroom. Nonfinite clauses（非限定从句）are clauses whose verb phrase is non-finite, e.g. aning parti

31、ciple. He finished his work before leaving the classroom. Verbless clauses（无动词分句） are clauses which contain no verb element, e.g.: Hundreds of people were killed in the fire,many of them children.3) In terms of functions in a sentence:Independent clause, not subordinate to another clause.'.E.g.

32、I am a teacher. Subordinate clause is a clause which forms part of another clause as its element, or as constituent of a phrase within a clause.a) nominal clause （名词性从句） e.g. What he saidis true.b) relative clause （关系从句） functioning as post modifiers of a noun phrase. E.g. People who smokeannoy me.c

33、) comparative clause, than, asd) adverbial clauses denoting time, place, reason, etc.(2) Sentence TypesSentence: A sentence is, grammatically, the largest unit of grammatical organization within which parts of speech and grammatical classes are to function.1)In terms of complexity or the number of c

34、onstituent clauses: Simple sentence consists of a single independent clause. Multiple sentence consists of more than one clause.a) Compound sentence（复合句） consists of two or more independent clauseswith no dependent clauses.E.g.: The storm is over, but the ground is still wet.b) Complex sentence （复杂句

35、） consists of one independent clause and one ormore dependent clause,e.g.: Although the storm is over, the ground is still wet.c) Compound-complex sentence consists of two or more independent clauses,one being compound, and at least one complex dependent clause,.g.:Although the storm is over, the gr

36、ound is still wet, and we cannot go out for a walk.2)In terms of grammaticality:Majorsentence is a sentence (simple or multiple) which conforms to theregular patterns of clause structures. (formal in style)'. Minor sentence does not conform to the regular clause patterns,e.g.: Oh, if I were you!

37、All aboard!3)In terms of function: Declarative sentence（陈述句）Interrogative sentence （疑问句）a) General questionb) Special questionc) Alternative questiond) Disjunctive question （反义疑问句） Imperative sentence （命令、祈使、要求）Exclamatory sentence （感叹句）4)In terms of sentence length: Short sentence（casual, easy, inf

38、ormal, emphatic, eye-catching, to the point,effective, express a concept） long sentence5)In terms of the beauty of structure or emphasis: Periodic sentence（圆周句） is a sentence which suspends the completion ofthe main thought until(near) the end,e.g.:Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolut

39、e silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. Loose sentence（松散句） in contrast completes the main thought well beforethe end. Balanced sentence contains two distinct halves or parts, each of about thesame length and importance,e.g.:'.In Plato sopinion man was made fo

40、r philosophy; in Baconsopinion philosophy was made for man.(beautiful in form, impressive in meaning; formal writings, expository and argumentative prose, public speech)10、British/American EnglishBritish English范围： EFL （mother tongue ）: Britain; The Irish Republic ； Australia；NewZealand； South Afric

41、a； The West Indian IslandESL ：Singapore；MalaysiaThree periods: Old English, Middle English, Modern EnglishAmerican English范围： EFL ：（mother tongue）The United States of America; CanadaESL ： Mexico；The Philippines; Samoa（萨摩亚）History of AmE:Differences between BrE & AmE:每项具体例子要看(1) In Vocabulary(2)

42、In Grammar The use of present perfect (BrE) or past tense (AmE) The use of “have”or “have got”to indicate possession The use of “got”(BrE) or “gotten”(AmE) The use of different prepositions The use of different expressions(3) In Spelling(4) In Pronunciation(RP=Received PronunciationGA=General Americ

43、an)'.11、Spoken English & Written English（口头语和书面语）（ 1）Medium: Medium refers to graphic signs (visual medium) or sound waves(auditory medium) by means of which a message is conveyed from one person (addresser) to another (addressee).Martin Joos classification（2）区别： At the lexical level At the

44、syntactical/grammatical level At the phonological/graphological level Semantically补充： Striking differences1) Hearer/Reader involvement.Generally most speeches assume the presence of the hearerNon-verbal signals like facial expressions of incomprehension or boredom, feedback in the way of laughter, a

45、pplause and even booing (feedback from audience attening a lecture and the like).A written text normally presumes the absence of the reader, and direct feedback from the reader is not possible.2) Linguistic explicitnessIn speech, the participants rely heavily on their common background knowledge and

46、 the immediate context for much of their information.The immediate context can eliminate the ambiguity or dark information carried by implicit linguistic structures, bring some words with concrete referents, and recrysta-lize the denotations of some otherwise abstract words.Writing, generally, does

47、not rely on the immediate context for understanding. Nor can the writer normally hope that his /her readers share with him/her much of the personal background knowledge needed for the understanding of the written text. On the contrary he/she must give great explicitness to whatever he/she is trying

48、to say on paper.3) PreparednessWriting is on the whole more careful than speaking.Permanent record, a clear idea about the subject matter and logical arrangement of thought, compact and self-contained.Speech, esp. conversation, is often spontaneous. Random shift of topic, a general lack of conscious

49、 planning, features of hesitation, slips of the tongue, overlapping or simultaneous speech.'.Stylistic differencesSpoken texts contrast withwrittentexts in terms of grammatical, lexicalandphonological/ graphological features.Gregory(19107):1) Distinctions amongst speechSpeech can be spontaneous

50、(such as casual conversation) or non-spontaneous (as what actors and teachers are doing).Within spontaneous speech, there is conversing (with the participation of others) versus monologuing (with no interruption from others). The latter kind of sustained spontaneous speech is found in classroom teac

51、hing, TV interviewing, radio commenting, and the talking between scholars.Non-spontaneous speech can be sub-categorized as reciting (such as story telling, poem recitation and singing) and as the speaking of what is written. In literate cultures, most non-spontaneous speech is the speaking of what h

52、as been written.2) Distinctions amongst writingThe text that has been written may be written to be spoken as if not written, or written to be spoken, or even written not necessarily to be spoken.a) Texts written to be spoken as if not written such as the lines in a drama, sound like real speech. But

53、 they are speechesthat have been planned and prepared, whereas ordinary speech is spontaneous; and their situations are more compact and self-contained than those of conversing and monologuing.b) Texts written to be spoken with no effort to conceal their written origin such as scripts for sermons, s

54、peeches, lectures, news bulletins and commentaries, can be really the reading of an article or essay but the hearer is not in the same situation as the reader where he/she can turn back a page to check his/her understanding. Hence their repeating of the main points in a slightly different way and th

55、eir manipulation of prosodic and paralinguistic features for the spoken mode.c) Texts written not necessarily to be spoken with no relation to the spoken mode such as a telephone book or a dictionary may be described as written to be read.d) Texts written not necessarily to be spoken but with a relationship with the spoken mode such as dialogue in a novel, may be categorized as written to be read as s