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!1st lecture (introduction)

https://www.thoughtco.com/stylistics-language-studies-1692000


Literary linguistics (aka stylistics) IS the application of linguistic theory to literature

Stylistics can be considered a process of textual interpretation by using language comprehension and sociodynamics.

Literary theory: The author's choice of words and arrangement of words, sentences, and paragraphs to produce a specific effect on the reader. The style allows the author to shape how the reader experiences the work. E.g. Simple and complex vocabulary changes the reading experience even though they tell the story.

What is the most important thing in Stylistics? History and Cultural studies! Then comes the author’s biographical speculation (author’s worldview and bias), and then the pretentiousness; an analyst turns into a creative writer??

This is where we turn to literary linguistics (drawing on linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science): Focusing on;
Text, Textuality, Texture.

3 POV techniques: 

omniscient POV- relatively complex

first-person POV- simpler, spoken, written is more complex

third-person POV- a bit more complex mindset from the persona


Style may vary in the novel split by characters to give them a distinctive voice.

simple style- common words and easy sentences even when explaining complex foregrounds, present facts themselves to provoke the reader's emotions.

complex style- long elaborate, many ideas, descriptions, lyrical passages to form emotions.

mid-style- combination, a neutral tone or juxtaposition. E.g. Jasmine Nights by (S.P. Somtow)


Stylistic analysis: commenting on quality or meaning in the interpretive text; scrutinizing what the forms are and defining what function they perform in the current and given context. Understanding the allusions and meanings in a non/literary text. But this process of identifying interpretations relies on a particular schema that has to be familiarised. In other words— it should be done evidentially, systematically, rigorously, in a falsifiable, replicable, open and progressive manner. 


HOW TO DO LITERARY LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS:

Step 1: pick your data/text

Step 2: Select a theoretical framework/approach (e.g systemic functional grammar, speech act theory, corpus linguistics etc.)

Step 3: Choose an analytical focus (can be lexical sets, phonology, turn-taking)

Step 4: Label, classify, categorise; observe for patterns in the text

Step 5: Attach significance to observed patterns and *and consider explaining them patterns, providing links to examples and social bg of the author etc.*

Step 6: Evaluate to ‘answer’ research questions, consider implications of the study and limitations of the study. 


Proper definitions tingz

Deviation

Upon the overuse of normal rules of usage, so it’s unusual because it is over-frequent (Wales 2011) *here OTT mentioned that it’s like using a word one too many times to the point that it’s noticeable*

Foregrounding

The property of perceptual prominence that certain things have against the backdrop of less prominent things (Gregoriou 2014)


Achieved by deviation or repetition (Wales 2011)

Parallelism

Repetition of the same structural pattern between phrases or clauses (Wales 2011)


https://journals.cihanuniversity.edu.iq/index.php/cuejhss/article/view/165/115  


https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/topic3a/5dp&f.htm

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