文档介绍：英语语言学概论课程课件
课件名称:语言与文学
制作者:外国语学院鞠玉梅
Chapter 9 Language and Literature
Purpose of teaching: to invite students to the field of literary stylistics
Focal points of teaching: Features of literary language
General features of literary language
1. Literary stylistics(文学文体学): It is the part of linguistics that studies the language of literature. It focuses on the study of linguistic features related to literary style.
2. Features of the literary language:
1) Foregrounding and grammatical form pare the following two examples:
A. The 1960 dream of high rise living soon turned into a nightmare. (Observer, 29 November 1995)
Nothing grammatically unusual or “deviant” in the way the words of the sentence are put together.
B. Four storeys have no windows left to smash
But in the fifth a chipped sill buttresses
Mother and daughter the last mistresses
Of that black block condemned to stand, not crash.
The grammatical structure seems to be much more challenging, and makes more demands on our interpretative processing of these lines.
In literary texts, the grammatical system of the language is often exploited, experimented with, or made to deviant from other, more everyday forms of language, and as a result creates interesting new patterns in form and in meaning.
One way that this happens is through the use of non-conventional structures that seem to break the rules of grammar.
The following is an example from Angela Carter’s novel Wise Children:The red-haired woman, smiling, waving to the disappearing shore. She left the maharajah; she left innumerable other lights o’ passing love in towns and cities and theatres and railway stations all over the world. But Melchior she did not leave.
2) Literal language and figurative language
Literal meaning: The first meaning for a word that a dictionary definition gives is usually its LITERAL meaning. Tree, a family tree
Figurative meaning: based on the literal meaning, but beyond the literal meaning
Trope(修辞,比喻): Another word fo