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Honrada
Presentor: Cheerie Fe
STYLISTIC
ANALYSIS
Date: September 29,2023
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Presentation outline
Stylistics Analysis
Level of Stylistic Analysis
Phonological Level
Grammatical Level
Lexical Level
Pragmatic Level
Summary
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Stylistics is the study and
interpretation of texts from
a linguistic perspective.
The preferred object of
stylistic studies is literature,
but not exclusively “high
literature” but also other
What is forms of written texts such
as text from the domains of
Stylistic advertising, pop culture,
politics or religion.
Analysis
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Other features of stylistics
include the use of dialogue,
including regional accents
and People’s dialects,
descriptive language, the use
of grammar, such as the
active voice or passive voice,
the distribution.
What is
Stylistic
Analysis
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Phonological
in Stylistics
Analysis
Level
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At the phonological level, stylisticians are interested
in the possibility of purposeful manipulation of the
segmental and suprasegmental elements of the text
to produce poetic effects and improve the literary
experience of the reader. (Gibbons & Whiteley.
2018:27).
Phonological foregrounding is characteristically
more evident in poetry than in other literary genres.
In poetry, segmental and suprasegmental features
are significantly important to maintain meter, rhyme
and rhythm.
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Deviant phonological traits or the overuse of
specific phonological patterns can also cause
foregrounding.
Instances of phonological deviation are sanctioned
by what is known as poetic license.
The three most visible and commonly used
phonological deviations are epenthesis, elision, and
onomatopoeia (or sound symbolism).
Epenthesis is the term for the adding of a sound to
poetry or song lyrics in order to retain meter, rhyme,
and/or rhythm.
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For instance, in the English song “The Umbrella
Man”, the meter requires “umbrella” to be
pronounced with four, rather than three, syllables (i.e.
um-buh-rel-la,) to maintain meter and rhythm.
Elision is the term for the deletion of a sound from
poetry or lyrics in order to preserve rhyme and/or
meter. This sound is typically an unstressed vowel.
For instance, in Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ the
word ‘opened’ is shorted to ‘op’d’ in the line: “And
op’d those eyes that must eclipse the day”.
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In this line, the elision serves the purpose of
maintaining the meter of the poem, which is
pentameter.
“A lexical item which portrays a correspondence
between speech sounds and sounds in the world” is
known as onomatopoeia (or sound symbolism).
(Gibbons & Whiteley, 2018: 32).
Unlike in normal words, the relationship between the
sign and the message in onomatopoeic expression is
iconic and is dependent on resemblance.
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By using sound symbolism, onomatopoeia can be
creatively employed to provide a more accurate
representation of the action being described. (Short,
2013: 114).
The sounds of these actions are echoed to create
this sound symbolism.
An example of onomatopoeia can be found in
Marinetti’s poem ‘Zang Tumb’, in which he uses the
word ‘kersplash-splash’, to demonstrate the sound
of a number of Turkish soldiers hitting the water
(Gibbons & Whiteley, 2018: 33)
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RESOURCES:
Chafer, A.U (2021) and Shoiba, S. (2021). Levels of Stylistic.
[Power Point Slides]. Department of Applied Linguistics
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