Literary linguistics studies the language of literature. It focuses on the study of linguistic features related to literary style.
9.1 Theoretical background
9.2.1 Foregrounding and grammatical form 9.2.2 Literal language and figurative language Simile
Metaphor
Metonymy
Synecdoche
9.2.3 The analysis of literary language
9.3.1 Sound patterning
9.3.2 Different forms of sound patterning
Rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Reverse rhyme
Pararhyme
Repitition
-Metre(Dimetre, Trimetre, Tetrametre, Hexametre, Heptametre, Octametre)
-Foot (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Dactyl,Spondee, Pyrrhic)
9.3.4 Conventional forms of metre and sound Couplets
Quatrains
Blank verse
Sonnet
9.3.5 The poetic functions of sound and metre
9.3.6 How to analyse poetry?
9.4.1 Fictional prose and point of view
I-narrators: the person who tells the
story is a character in the fictional
world.
Third-person narrators: the narrator is not a character in the fictional world.
Schema-oriented language
Given vs New information
1) Speech presentation(Short)
Direct Speech(DS)
Indirect Speech (IDS)
Narrator’s Representation of Speech
Acts(NRSA)
Narrator’s Representation of Speech(NRS) Free Indirect Speech (FIS)
Speech presentation cline: NRS NRSA IS FIS DS
-Indirect Thought (IDT)
-Narrator’s Representation of Thought Acts(NRTA) -Narrator’s Representation of Thought(NRT)
-Free Indirect Thought (FIT)
-Stream of consciousness writing
9.4.3 Prose style
Authorial style
Text style
9.4.4 How to analyse the language of fiction?
9.5.1 How should we analyse drama? Drama as poetry
Drama as fiction
Drama as conversation
9.5.2 Analyzing dramatic language 9.5.3 How to analyse dramatic texts? Paraphrase the text
Write a commentary on the text Select a theoretical approach
1.What is the difference between direct thought and free indirect thought?
2.What is a speech presentation cline?。