Abstract
800x600 The present paper used the modal framework of Simpson in doing a stylistic analysis of the story “Things You Don’t Know” by Ian Rosales, a highly-acclaimed Filipino writer. Since stylistics has always been concerned with how readers interpret the texts by focusing on linguistic choices, the modal choices of the writer based on Simpson’s modal framework would allow the readers to identify the attitude of the narrator. Indeed, results show that the epistemic type of modal was preponderant –this type apparently allows the readers to feel the narrator’s uncertainty in situations or events. In addition, this modal framework also enables the readers to further identify the shade of a text, since the choice of modals highlights either a positive, negative, or neutral shade of a story. Since the epistemic modal was the most pronounced, the story is definitely negative in shade, and this can be inferred in the short story where the narrator is uncertain what was going on in her everyday affairs. In turn, this uncertainty is emphasised by the narrator’s dependence on his/her perception of external appearances or surroundings. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/3L-2014-2002-08 Keywords: boulomaic; epistemic; deontic; dynamic; modality; shade Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Table Normal; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;}
Highlights
Stylistics was previously regarded as a method that allowed readers to analyse language (Fish 1970)
Stylistics has already branched into several sub-fields, such as feminist stylistics, cognitive stylistics, discourse stylistics, (Simpson 2004), and deconstructive stylistics (Mishra 2011)
Epistemic modality outnumbered the rest of the types with regard to modality elements
Summary
Stylistics was previously regarded as a method that allowed readers to analyse language (Fish 1970). On the other hand, became a tool in enriching theories of discourse, and culture and society. Stylistics has already branched into several sub-fields, such as feminist stylistics, cognitive stylistics, discourse stylistics, (Simpson 2004), and deconstructive stylistics (Mishra 2011). Stylistics is regarded as an “accepted method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned language” There are corresponding words in different languages that may or may not share exactly the same interpretation in another language (Hazidi 2002)
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