Stylistic Perspective Research Articles

GENERATION Z’S LINGOS ON TIKTOK: ANALYSIS OF EMERGING LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES

The internet is an environment where users display the prowess in language and all forms of semiotic resources for different forms of communication. The current study examines Generation Z’s use of language in order to highlight the emerging forms of language structures on TikTok, as a result of the innate ability of humans to create new forms, mostly in verbal communication. The research questions are: What are the forms of construction of Generation Z’s lingo on TikTok? What semantic peculiarities are Generation Z’s lingo on TikTok characterized by? The premise of this study is that, Generation Z’s creative use of language on TikTok, shows the innate ability of humans to create new forms, and adapt to the affordances of new platforms in using language for communication. Crystal’s (2005) propositions concerning Internet Linguistics— the Stylistic perspective is applied in this study. Fifty Tik Tok videos were downloaded from the TikTok platform, some of the videos had the same lingos, in which case only one of such videos was chosen. Seventeen videos were used, each video was played; the part of the video that had the Generation Z’s word(s) was screen shot and used as the data for the analysis. In all, seventeen images were used. Findings show that the Generation Z’s lingo is replete with: acronyms used as full words in speech, combination of words and image in speech, the use of neologisms, esoteric words, and laconic structures. Some words and phrases have new meanings in addition to their previous meanings; all these show a new variety of the English language. The study recommends that language users should deploy the affordance of new internet platforms to freely express themselves, in doing so, naturally, new varieties will spring up and widen the lexicon of the English language.

The Figurative Style in Contemporary Arabic Poetry (Henda Muhammad as a Model)

This study aims to highlight the figurative style in contemporary Arabic poetry by selecting the poetry of Henda Muhammad as a model. The significance of the study lies in analyzing how the poet employs figurative techniques such as simile, metaphor, and synecdoche to create expressive and rich poetic imagery. The study seeks to uncover Henda Muhammad's innovations in using these rhetorical tools to link the texts to the themes addressed in the poems, with the goal of answering the research question: What are the prominent poetic images at the figurative level and their manifestations of similarity, Metaphor, and synecdoche in Henda Muhammad's poems? The study utilized a descriptive methodology that focuses on describing the phenomenon by highlighting rhetorical purposes and examples and analyzing literary texts from a figurative stylistic perspective to determine their meanings. The study yielded several results, most notably that the poet succeeded in adding depth and aesthetics to her poems through her rhetorical strength, which contributed to enriching the poetic texts both linguistically and aesthetically, with manifestations of emotional impact and deep human experience reflecting a range of Emotions including sorrow, hope, longing, alienation, and patriotism.

A stylistic study of eulogic speeches on the death of Queen Elizabeth II

This is a quantitative-qualitative, descriptive study . It studies eulogic speeches on the death of Queen Elizabeth II from a stylistic perspective. The study tries to answer the following questions: what are the stylistic devices used and how are they realized ? what are the most prominent stylistic device used in the selected eulogic speeches ? In connection with the study questions, the study aims at : Revealing the stylistic devices that are utilized in the selected eulogic speeches and how they are realized linguistically. Showing the most prominent stylistic devices in the selected eulogic speeches. To achieve the aims of the study, the study follows these procedures : Reviewing the literature review stylistics, stylistic devices, and eulogy, analyzing how the stylistic devices are being employed in the selected eulogic speeches. The model of stylistic devices by Leech and short (2007) is an adapted model. On the basis of the analysis of the present study, the following conclusions are drawn: hyperbole is the most dominant stylistic device used in the selected data followed by metaphor respectively , the stylistic devices are used to create full positive picture about the Queen Elizabeth II in a way that literal meaning could never convey , the stylistic devices are realized in a systematic way to embellish and improve the texts.

A feminist stylistic analysis of the selected poems from My Heart in Your Hands: Poems from Namibia

This study provides a feminist stylistic analysis of fifteen (15) selected poems from My Heart in Your Hands: Poems from Namibia from a feminist stylistic perspective, thus the study examines language and gender in anthropology. The research aimed to examine how lexis is used to represent women in the selected poems; to analyse how syntax is used to show the roles of women in society and to evaluate how gender issues are communicated at the discourse level. In recent years, many Namibian women have turned to language to recast themselves and give a voice to the voiceless and marginalised through literature. The female poets disclosed the subjugation of women by the patriarchal system. Women characters were represented as second to men, wicked, weak and victims of sexual, verbal and physical abuse at the hands of their loved ones. In the poems, women are represented as emotional, and worthless. As the study was a desk study, it adopted the qualitative approach to analyse the sampled poems that were purposively sampled as they are primarily thematic concerns of gender and that are written by women. Moreover, content analysis was used to analyse and interpret the meaning from the selected poems. Finally, the poets used discourse level to communicate the gender issues faced by women such as oppression, discrimination, and exploitation and they are voiceless as men shut them through abuse when they speak up. Therefore, women are portrayed as domestic workers, caretakers, and child bearers. They are given household duties as their roles throughout the selected poems.

Study of “The Romance of the Western Bower” Translation from the Perspective of Translation Stylistics: A Case Study of Xu Yuanchong’s Translation

Study of “The Romance of the Western Bower” Translation from the Perspective of Translation Stylistics: A Case Study of Xu Yuanchong’s Translation

A Cognitive Stylistics Approach to Translation

The paper aims to consider the translation process by drawing light on the use of language from a cognitive stylistic perspective. It looks at translators' performance as a cognitive process to understand the stylistic devices of texts. The paper clarifies the multiple stylistic devices, their applications, and how they are used to attract the receiver’s attention to a specific element more than others by analyzing twenty-four Arabic translations according to stylistic functions, effects, and cognitive interpretations of twelve texts from the book "A Brief History of Time" by Hawking (1988). It demonstrates that using cognitive stylistic devices enhances cognitive operations and interpretation, and produces a creative and motivated text with more emotional effects.

М. Вайнберг. «Детская тетрадь» № 2 ор. 19: Вопросы жанровой и стилевой преемственности

The article examines the cycle of preludes for piano by M. Weinberg "Children’s Notebook". The significance of this work in the composer’s oeuvre and its autobiographical nature are analyzed. Semantic and stylistic intersections of the composition with works by foreign and Russian composers of the 19th–20th centuries (Chopin, Schumann, Mussorgsky, and Shostakovich) are noted, as well as references to various genre prototypes. The compositional and dramaturgical principles of the cycle, as well as tonal and intonational features, are explored. Parallels are drawn between Weinberg’s composition and Mussorgsky’s vocal cycle "The Nursery", as well as Shostakovich’s "24 Preludes" op. 34. Previously, the cycle of preludes "Children’s Notebook" No. 2 by Weinberg has not been considered from a genre and stylistic perspective.

Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl from the Perspective of Feminist Stylistics

Girl is contemporary Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid’s autobiographical writing, which describes a girl dictated by the instructions of her demanding mother about how to behave properly like a lady. Through the narration of daily life between mother and daughter, the influence of colonial history and colonial culture on the family life of African Caribbean women is reflected in the work. With the analysis at three different levels of words, sentence and discourse from the perspective of feminist stylistics, the weak feminine role and the inferior social status of women in Antigua are explored. A traditional and typical Caribbean mother and daughter relationship of the controlling mother with the obedient daughter is revealed.

Victimization in Walker’s The Color Purple: A Critical Stylistic Analysis

The current paper investigates woman’s victimization in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple from a critical stylistic perspective. It aims to show how victimization is realized linguistically in terms of some toolkits mentioned in Jeffries’s (2010) framework. Additionally, it aims to reveal the ideological implication of these toolkits in the data under study. The study adopts a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the analysis. The researchers find out that woman’s victimization is recognized in The Color Purple through various syntactic triggers that symbolize Jeffries’s conceptual tools. Moreover, the study concludes that the tool of Representing Actions, States, Events is the most common among others as it is thoroughly interconnected with the brutal acts that lead to victimization. Further, Walker devotes these toolkits to reveal various negative ideologies that accompany victimization like slavery, oppression, ethnic discrimination and domination.

Linguistic Sexism at Word Level in Ali’s The Book of Saladin: A Feminist Stylistic Perspective

Linguistic Sexism at Word Level in Ali’s The Book of Saladin: A Feminist Stylistic Perspective

Abordarea tipologică a textelor din domeniul sănătății publice produse în perioada pandemiei Covid-19

The article aims to carry out a typological analysis of specialized texts produced in the specific socio-communicational context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The synthesis of the theoretical postulates and the description of the traditional classifications (A. Bidu-Vrănceanu, J.-M Berthelot, A.-M., Loffler-Laurian, D. Rovența-Frumușani, Kocourek, Rostislav) allow the identification of relevant features in order to establish the typologies according to the sender, the recipient, and the target domain. During the public health crisis, official international and national websites are an important source of information. Thus, informational and descriptive texts such as weekly epidemiological bulletins, communication documents, summary reports, posters, video and audio information, epidemiological studies with key statistical data on confirmed cases, the incidence of detection and hospitalization, variants of the virus, and vaccination contribute to the internationalization of the terminology used in the pandemic discourse. These texts target a heterogeneous audience from the perspectives of knowledge, information, and application. The specialized text related to the pandemic context is the linguistic unit that transmits certain knowledge specific to a field, having an informative, descriptive, and argumentative value and a stance-taking impact. The communicative role of public health texts during the Covid-19 pandemic is well specified and defined, making them an interesting source of analysis from a terminological, pragmatic, and stylistic perspective.

결핍과 (불)가능성으로 직조된 아브젝시옹의 문체

This study is a stylistic study of author Han Kang's three series of 『The Vegetarian』. This study takes as its main issue the fact that previous studies have been biased toward aspects of the topic and that stylistic research has not been actively attempted. Therefore, this study analyzes the way the characters in 『The Vegetarian』 are portrayed from a stylistic perspective. Through this, the purpose is to supplement the shortcomings of previous studies.
 This study analyzed that the author actively uses various stylistic strategies in the way he depicts characters. First, the conflicting worldviews are clearly revealed through stylistic features. Second, it also presents a “style of (im)possibility” that explores possibilities in (im)possible reality. In this study, these stylistic features were identified in their relationship with the focal speaker and were named the “style of abjection”.
 Of course, Han Kang is a contemporary writer, so research on Han Kang's writing style needs to be continuous. However, this study is significant in that it expands the horizon of stylistic research on 『The Vegetarian』 by examining how the stylistic strategies of the focal speakers contribute to the characters and themes of the novel.

Narratology and stylistics in the Tzotzil tale Pepench'uch

Through a linguistic-literary study we deal with recognizing and explaining the characteristics of the Tzotzil story "Pepench'uch". Our objective is to explore the aspects that make up the narrative structure of the indigenous tale from the perspective of narratology and from the perspective of stylistics. We make special reference to literary creation as a starting point to observe the worldview of the Tzotzil culture in its oral traditions and in its linguistic expressions. The acceptance of this form of analysis of the stories that arise directly from the indigenous popular narratives can favor a new perspective of the studies of literature and language teaching from the same Mexican indigenous culture.

Multimodal perceptual image and linguistic means of its manifestation in an English-language literary text

The article discusses the problem of multimodal perceptual image in the literary text as a language means of conveying the interaction and reciprocity of perceptual sensations obtained through several senses and manifesting an integral multimodal image. The language manifestation of the multimodality of perception is understood as a way to express in a language the results of the perception by several senses at the same time. The purpose of the article is to identify language means of manifestation of the processes of multimodal perception in a literary text. The study is carried out from the perspective of cognitive stylistics, i.e. considering stylistic devices that manifest multimodal perception as a means of knowledge representation. «The Pebble in the Sky» by A. Azimov served as an example of a literary text characterized by an abundance of perceptual vocabulary per text unit. The component analysis, lexical definition analysis, contextual analysis and linguo-stylistic analysis result in the classification of perceptual vocabulary and stylistic means manifesting multimodal perceptual image.

Critical Stylistic Analysis of Self-Conflict in Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ

The current study investigates the concept of self- conflict in Kazantzakis’ movie version of the novel The Last Temptation of Christ from a critical stylistic perspective. The Last Temptation of Christ is selected as a sample of analysis since it clearly portrays the life of Jesus Christ who struggles with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance and lust. Assuming and implying, being one of stylistic tools listed in Jeffries’ (2010) framework, is the only tool examined in this study. Thus, the study aims at showing how such tool is employed by the writer to uncover Christ’s self-conflict. Additionally, the linguistic triggers through which this tool appears are identified to explain further the way linguistic realizations aid to echo the writer’s ideologies to the concept of inner conflict. The study finds out that assuming and implying tool is utilized successfully in this movie as it helps a lot in revealing Christ’s inner conflict in order to live out God’s plan for him while trying to avoid sins. In other words, the linguistic triggers involved in assuming and implying obviously mirror how Christ is challenging to be divine and human.

Investigating The Ideology of Bullying in Hunt’s Fish in a Tree: A Critical Stylistic Approach

Language always conveys ideologies that represent an essential aspect of the world we live in. The beliefs and opinions of an individual or community can be organized, interacted with, and negotiated via the use of language. Recent researches have paid attention to bullying as a social issue. They have focused on the psychological aspect of bullying rather than the linguistic one. To bridge this gap, the current study is intended to investigate the ideology of bullying from a critical stylistic perspective. The researchers adopt Jeffries' (2010) critical stylistics model to analyze the data which is five extracts taken from Hunt’s Fish in a Tree (2015). The analysis demonstrates that the critical stylistic tools contribute significantly to the linguistic formulation of the concept of bullying and account for a significant amount of the meaning of the text under consideration. The study concludes that the ideology of bullying is represented through using most of the stylistic tools but with different bullying acts.

The Guitar Sound Image in the Creativity of Sabikas

The author proves that the concept of sound image appeared in musicological literature at the beginning of the 20th century. The defined phenomenon is characterized as a set of sound (speech, music, noise) elements that create, with the help of associations, a generalized image about material object, phenomenon, historical event, human character. In modern musicology, scientists consider the concepts of "sound image of an instrument" and "performance style" to be related, where these concepts are interpreted as an individual stylistic perspective in the perception of expressive possibilities of a musical instrument: timbral, dynamic, register characteristics and associated artistic semantics. The basis of the sound image of the Sabikas guitar was formed thanks to the environment of prominent representatives of flamenco - R. Montoya, A. Chacon, M. de Huelva and others, and the method of A. Marin was taken as the technological foundation. The author presents the main parameters of the sound image of Sabikas' guitar, which are based on the intonation dictionary of R. Montoya's era, as well as compositional, interpretive and technological innovations of Sabikas. It was found that the compositional innovations of Sabikas consisted in the use of traditional falsettos in other forms of flamenco (Sevillanas, Zambra, Garrotín, etc.), as well as the creation of a composition in the form of a theme with variations based on folk melodies. The virtuosity and purity of the intonation of the new sample, the timbre richness of the guitar texture, the use of artificial flagolets and chromatic scales during the solo performance were noted in the interpretive aspect. Technological innovations of Sabikas focused on innovation in the alzapúa technique, the rationality of the maestro's performance technique with the help of open strings and well-chosen left-hand fingering. The author proves this statement with relevant material. The conclusion is that the sound image of Sabikas' guitar became a reference point for many outstanding musicians of the next generation - Paco de Lucía, Manolo Sanlúcar, Vicente Amigo and others. The article provides an explanation that for many years the art of flamenco existed in a trinity - guitar, dance, vocals. It is noted that Ramón Montoya was the first soloist-guitarist, after whom it was Sabikas who got the opportunity (1959) to present the sound image of the flamenco guitar to US listeners during a solo concert in the most prestigious New York hall "Town Hall". It has been proven that Sabikas' discography was the largest among flamenco guitarists (about 40 studio albums), which can be conventionally divided into solo and ensemble recordings.

A Critical Stylistic Study of Bullying in R.J Palacio`s Wonder

Bullying is one of the most common problems that generate vigorous arguments in the community. It is widespread in all societies, especially among children and adolescents in schools. The present study investigates the concept of bullying in the American novel ‘Wonder’ by R. J. Palacio from a critical stylistic perspective. The importance of the study resides for every ordinary reader to be aware of the strategies used in bullying others. It also might be of value to scholars of sociology, critical stylistics, critical discourse studies, psychologists, and any scholar interested in the discourse of bullying. The current study is expected to answer the following question : What is the most common type of bullying and the critical stylistic tools that bullies use to convey the concept of bullying in the analyzed data? The study aims at distinguishing the most common types of Bullying that bullies use in the selected novel and also identifying the critical stylistic tools that are employed by the bullies. The researchers adopt Jeffries’s (2010) critical stylistics modal to analyze the data under scrutiny. The study reveals that the most common form of bullying found is direct emotional bullying which is experienced by Julian and his schoolmates against the victim. Only eight stylistic tools are found in the five extracts through certain realizations related to the specific contexts in which they are initiated. The study concludes that the notion of bullying is represented through using most stylistic tools but with different ideologies.

Conceptual Representations in Sherko Bekas’ Gray: A Cognitive Stylistic Study

The present paper aims to examine Bekas’ worldview (mind style) in the selected poem Gray from a cognitive stylistic perspective. The concept of mind style, which refers to any particular linguistic representation of an individual’s mental self, encompasses the process of “reality formation” in one’s mind. In cognitive stylistics, the worldview (mind style) of the poet, narrator and character is formed from and displayed through the linguistic structure of the text. Therefore, the highlighted research question is: How is Bekas’ worldview constructed and represented in the selected poem? This study is essential for readers and listeners because it will assist them in interpreting poetic texts so they can comprehend the poet’s worldview. To achieve the main aim, the researchers will apply the cognitive linguistic theories of schema, conceptual metaphor, and conceptual metonymy, all of which are concerned with the representation of conceptual structures. These cognitive theories are considered strong and dynamic theories in accounting for cognitive processes that underpin the production and interpretation of various types of discourse, whether factual or fictional, by forming mental representations in the mind. More specifically, schema theory can be used to explain how text worlds are created and processed during discourse processing, primarily when reading poetry. Additionally, schema theory involves researching mental models, which entails analysing how poets think about the world in contrast to readers. To examine the poet’s worldview, the researchers also use perspective and foregrounding in construal dimensions. Since the study is qualitative, the study’s data will be limited to the analysis of Bekas’ Gray. The study has concluded that Bekas views the world pessimistically and hopelessly.

Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach

This article investigates power dynamics reflected in the conversations between characters in Arthur Miller’s written text, A View from the Bridge, from the perspective of pragmatic stylistics. Given that techniques from conversation analysis have proven feasible and effective in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, this article analyses and interprets the development of power relations in the Carbone family by means of turn-taking patterns. In general, this article argues that Eddie’s authority is consecutively undermined in front of Catherine, while his control over Beatrice is gradually reinforced. Moreover, Beatrice’s manipulation of Catherine is continuously challenged. Based on the above results, this article demonstrates that the changing power relations are a fundamental cause of family conflicts and the final tragedy. Therefore, this article shows that turn-taking analysis is a new way of explaining how we understand dynamic power relations between characters in this dramatic text.