of Africa as prehistoric men. He compares them to children and demons claiming they are uncivilized. This view was commonplace in the west during the end of the 19th century. In the book Arrow of God it is clear Chinua Achebe disagrees with this notion of Africans being prehistoric. Achebe attempts to educate us on the customs and values of the Umuaro people in Nigeria. He writes in depth about Umuaro’s greetings‚ values‚ religion‚ rituals‚ and many other aspects of life in this part of Africa. In
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Sample Syllabus for English 102 Text in blue requires your review or refers to optional instructions that can be deleted. <Instructor Name> Office: <instructor’s office> English Department Mail Room: E & T 637 Office Hours: <instructor’s office hours—80 minutes per week for each 4-unit class> Campus Phone: <instructor’s telephone number> Email: <instructor’s email address—this is optional> Course Web Site: <URL for course materials—this is optional> English 102: Composition II Catalog Description
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Decoding Stylistics Stylistics of the author and of the reader. The notions of encoding and decoding Decoding stylistics is the most recent trend in stylistic research that employs theoretical findings in such areas of science as information theory‚ psychology‚ statistical studies in combination with linguistics‚ literary theory‚ history of art‚ literary criticism‚ etc. Decoding stylistics makes an attempt to regard the esthetic value of a text based on the interaction
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In the essay Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ there are five meaningful quotes that revolve around Okonkwos status during his life. In the beginning of the novel Okonkwo became an important part of his village early in his life when he defeated Amaline the Cat in a wrestling match. His victory made him a celebrity among the nine villages of Umuofia because Amaline had been undefeated for seven years. At this point‚ Okonkwo began on the path to high social status among his village‚ which was his
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Introduction…………………………………………………………………………3-7 Chapter 1. Stylistic peculiarities of D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow’s poetry…………………………………………………………………….7 1.1. The use of polysemanticism of the word in combination with repetition in poems by D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow………..7-12 1.2. Lingvo-stylistic potential of D.H. Lawrence’s “Don’ts”…………
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Doing Stylistic Analysis (or four steps to heaven) READ THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORK ON YOUR ANALYSIS ... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. Step One: Initial Guidance DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT READ THROUGH THIS SECTION DO NOT START WRITING OR NOTE-TAKING YET! If you are offered a choice‚ DO NOT choose to analyse any text that you really think you don ’t understand! Go for something you think you can make some sense of‚ even on an initial reading. Do give the author
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1. Style and Stylistics. Language‚ speech and text. No one knows for sure what it is. The scope of problems stylistics is to solve‚ its very object and its tasks are open to discussion up to the present day‚ regardless of the fact that it goes back to ancient rhetoric and poetics. According to I.R. Galperin‚ the term STYLE is presumed (by various authors) to apply to the following fields of investigation: the aesthetic function of language; (reference to works of art‚ that is of poetry and
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5. The notion of a term.Its characteristics and st. f-s.Scientific prose. T. are w-ds denoting various scientifical & techn. Objects‚ phenomena & processes. They are found in techn. Texts where they are indespensible means of expressing ideas. They directly refer to the o-t they mean. They are emotionally neutral. They are: 1- monosemantic; 2-m-ng doesn’t depend on the context;3-it remains constant until some new invention changes it(wireless set=radio); 4- no emotional colouring‚but it can obtain
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that is theoretically maintained unchanged In recent years considerable attention has been paid to stylistic variation in linguistic description. Variation which used to be described as free has lately been described as fitting within identifiable linguistic or social parameters. Studying stylistic variation is the main focus of this project which is based on the observation that language variation depends not only on the social
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STYLISTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF THE ENGUSH LANGUAGE (Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П.‚ Бойцан Л.Ф.‚ Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ‚ 2001. - С. 28-33.) 1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations‚ relations between
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