The article deals with the journalistic texts of Svyatomyr Fostun, published in the London military journal “Surmach” (Trumpeter). It analyzes the specifics of the grammatical and stylistic design of ...these texts. It was found that the author’s journalism reflects the phonetic, orthographic, lexical, and morphological features codified in the Ukrainian spelling of 1929. The journalist’s creative self-expression in the analyzed journalistic texts includes tropes and stylistic figures, which expand the semantic framework of the text, and reveal its essential features. The conclusion is that the author uses stylistic devices in journalistic language for emotional and expressive reinforcement, axiological characteristics (positive and negative evaluation), communicative and pragmatic guidelines. Intertextual elements contribute to the structural and semantic integrity of the publicist’s texts, and coordinate the addressee’s perception and interpretation of the message in the right direction.
The paper studies the use of the passive voice in academic texts written in Mainland Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) by their native speakers and by adult Polish learners of ...those languages. The corpus consists of 37 MA theses written in Scandinavia and in Poland. A number of referring verbs were chosen for the purpose of the analysis. The results show that while there are discrepancies in the use of the passive voice in texts written by Polish and Scandinavian students, they cannot be unequivocally diagnosed as resulting from the grammatical and stylistic influence of the mother tongue.
The paper deals with the inflectional means of Czech and their potential to serve as a tool for violating the rules of information quality of news reporting in media. It briefly introduces the ...underlying theory and the process of data acquisition and processing and summarizes the results of the analysis. The conclusions show that by morphological means, eg by using variant word forms, it is possible to implicitly suggest either evaluation or preconceived emotional attitudes to the recipient, or their perception may be disturbed. In a broader context, research shows that, despite the fact that the inflectional means are a less open strategy than lexical units or intonation, they may have an implicit but strong potential to implement a function other than the intended informative function in news reporting.
This study explores the language used in reporting political headlines conducting a rhetorical stylistic analysis. It is based on showing the effect of the rhetorical stylistic relations in news ...reporting. The aim is to investigate the structure adopted in reporting political news. It argues that the rhetorical stylistic devices are necessary and applicable to non-literary texts, i.e. political headlines to evaluate language use in the representation of non-literary texts. The analysis was carried out on data selected from the British broadsheet The Guardian and the American New York Times newspaper headlines. The data were examined and subjected to a contrastive analysis incorporating rhetorical and stylistic tools to discern how they are united to achieve the main purpose of language use, i.e. to persuade and grasp the reader's attention. It was found that the two newspapers tend to employ sentence structures differently in terms of nucleus and satellite relations demonstrating the significant part in a sentence. Examples of the deviation strategy of foregrounding were primarily established in the New York Times to maintain the reader's attention about the content underlying the different strategy of the two newspapers to report war circumstances. The analysis shows that rhetorical devices and stylistic features are found and closely related in newspaper articles.
This thesis presents the first extended Text World Theory (cf. Gavins, 2007; Werth, 1999) account of pre-school storytime discourse. In doing so, it combines ethnographic methods of data collection ...with the text-world analytical framework and examines naturalistic video data of parent-child dyads participating in routine storytime practices at home. The project has three central aims: to investigate how naturally occurring read-aloud activities between an adult and young child operate; to extend the use and capabilities of Text World Theory by applying it to storytime discourse; and to provide insight into the pre-schooler's early experiences of fiction. The cognitive-linguistic analysis of some of children's very earliest interactions with literary texts offered in this thesis provides a unique insight into storytime practices and the early cognition of reading. As a result, the thesis makes a number of original contributions to the fields of literacy and education research, picturebook scholarship, and cognitive stylistics. In the first and second instances, the analyses presented throughout this work provide a holistic account of early reading activities that extend existing research on pre-school reading and pre-school readers from both an experiential and ontological perspective. Furthermore, I offer an original contribution to cognitive stylistics in the form of my application and development of the Text World Theory framework. Throughout this study, I demonstrate the suitability of Text World Theory to a context-sensitive examination of the experiences of young readers and the exploration of the storytime practices that introduce them to written fiction.
Various genres of literature within the African context have over the years portrayed and highlighted African cultures and traditions. One effective tool that has been used in the full realization of ...this has been the use of proverbs. The present study set out to examine how proverbs are used in Kemi Adetiba’s popular movie franchise, King of Boys, from the pragma-stylistic perspective. The paper opines that proverbs are not used arbitrarily by screenwriters, but are specifically used, through various figures of speech, to offer caution, warning or advice, assert one’s authority and power, and show one’s intent to achieve a goal. This study extends knowledge in the study of proverbs and presents language use in movies as a rich avenue in the promotion of knowledge in African societies.
Keywords: Proverb, Pragmatics, Stylistics, Pragma-stylistics.
