English Literary Discourse Research Articles

Translation of Occasional Innovations in English Literary Discourse

Translation of Occasional Innovations in English Literary Discourse

Ontology of Key Metasigns in Translatology

The article in question deals with the authors` consideration on the issue of metasigns in the scientific picture of the world, in the domain of terminology. Topicality is determined by the increased attention of linguists to the epidigmatic problems, structural semantic deviations of terms, generally, and lacuna places on the criteria of their taxonomy, in particular. Each science badly needs objects of investigation, alongside with proper methods and its basic metasigns. There work exact, adequate, congruent, equivalent terms in the scientific literature. Dichotomy exact::adequate make the object of our investigation. The empiric material has been extracted from the lexicological definitions and examples from English literary discourse. Applied methods (definitive, componential and discursive) alongside with thesauri of scientists make the facts of our investigation and prove validity of adequate translation. Thus, the translation process works by the principle of Tertium Comparationis. Outer structures of co-related translation units differ in their presentation. Inner structures differ semantically/pragmatically. Tautology, exactness do not work herein due to the convergence of semantic and lexical designs of units involved in translation. The ideas touched upon in this paper are open to further scientific discussions.

On Some Rhetoric Representations of Cultural Frames in Literary Discourse

The paper aims to explore some rhetoric representations of cultural frames in the English literary discourse. For this purpose, we analyze hyperbole and meiosis in English literary texts (approximately 500 pages) using Pragglejazz method for identifying metaphorically used word in this course introduced by Pragglejazz group (Praglejazz, 2007) and further developed by J. Steen (Steen, 2010). Such analyzes can shed a light on the world of thoughts, mythic world of the English speaking people.

Stylistic creativity in Thai English fiction

‘Thai English literature’ has not been widely recognized because of the controversial notion of ‘Thai English’. This paper thus investigates features of stylistic creativity in English short stories and novels written by Thai authors in order to identify indicators for a Thai variety of English. The features are interpreted using the approaches of World Englishes by Kachru and Strevens. It was found that the selected Thai writers highlight their English fiction with strategies of stylistic and textual innovations similar to those used by writers of other New Englishes but with uniquely indicative features for a developing non-native variety of English in the Expanding Circle: contextual and rhetorical nativization, thought patterns in Thai writing styles, Thai identity construction, multilingual code repertoire, transcultural creativity, localization of English literary forms, and Thai cultural loading of the English language. These characteristics can be found in a canon of Thai English literary discourse.

Figures of Thought in the English Literary Discourse

This article deals with the figures of thoughts in the English literary discourse. The figure of thought expresses the relation between the speech and its process. Its role and rhetoric position, their devices are thoroughly researched in this article and on giving examples from literatures the devices of rhetoric position are explained clearly.

The Gold Standard in English Literary Discourse: Some Functions of the Academic Article in Peer-Reviewed Journals in South Africa

Summary This article is based on a completed research project in which the discipline of English studies, as manifested in the discourse of published, peer-reviewed academic articles over the period 1958-2004-what we call the "gold standard" of academic literary discourse-forms the object of analysis. The focus of the article is to delineate and describe three major functions of the discipline as manifested by its gold standard, namely career formation, knowledge formation, and canon formation. Our general aim is to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the functions of peer-reviewed journals, to reveal the presence of rules governing discursive production, and to lay bare historical shifts in approach and choice of disciplinary objects.