Stylistic Techniques Research Articles

Manuscript on stylistic analysis of sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

The present study deals with the stylistic analysis of Sonnet 29, written by a very eminent poet, dramatist, and sonneteer, William Shakespeare. This analysis has been done keeping several categories in mind, such as graphological, grammatical, phonological, morphological, and metrical analysis, to study in depth the linguistic elements of Sonnet 29 along with what the poet wants to convey through portraying a state of hopelessness, failure, melancholy, and later positivity in the presence of his beloved. Stylistic techniques are used to unveil the hidden beauty of the poet’s sentiments and writing technique. Since stylistics analysis deals with linguistic devices that impart expressive or literary refinement to written discourse, this analysis aids in comprehending how Shakespeare uplifts from negative thoughts to positive ones. This analysis delves into the theme of the sonnet, the poet’s historical background, structural components, linguistic devices, concluding with a conclusion, and references.

A Stylistic Analysis of Joe Biden's Inaugural Political Speech

In this paper, a stylistic approach has been used to investigate the linguistic features of President Joe Biden's inauguration political speech. Special importance is given to its linguistic characteristics that affect the structure of the selected political speech. This paper is an attempt to highlight the political language of Biden’s political speech. The aim is to seek out how political speeches are packaged to persuade citizens and readers and how stylistic analytical tools assist readers in interpreting the language of Biden in the selected speech. The data has been collected from Time Magazine. The data selection is restricted to Biden's inauguration political speech and has been chosen based on certain foregrounding features that indicate a powerful stylistic effect on readers. The qualitative method has been used to analyze the selected data. In the analysis, some linguistic features, such as graphological, syntactic, grammatical deviations, transitivity, and modality have been used to investigate the style of the selected speech to reveal persuasion. The findings show that Biden's inauguration political speech achieves power, and persuasion through the use of certain stylistic features including lexical and grammatical categories such as abstract nouns, personal pronouns, mental processes, and certain modal auxiliaries. It is concluded that the lexical items that Biden uses are crucial in passing his message to his nation. However, the tendency to use distinctive foregrounding features in the consistent repetition of lexical items and sentence structures are stylistic technique used by Biden for the sake of persuasion.

METAPHOR AS A MEANS OF THE LINGUO-CULTURAL CONCEPT “AMERICAN DREAM” VERBALIZATION – TRANSLATION ASPECT

The purpose of the article is to consider the problem of verbalization of the linguistic and cultural concept AMERICAN DREAM through metaphor in the works of F. S. Fitzgerald and in translations by M. Pinchevsky. The theoretical and methodological basis of our research isthe scientific works of O. Borysova, A. Bondarenko, O. Vorobiova, O. Ladyka, A. Ogar and others. The research methodology is comprehensive, using various methods and techniques, including the translation-comparative method of analyzing original and translated texts with the use of elements of contextual and quantitative analysis.The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the functions of F. S. Fitzgerald’s linguistic and stylistic devices were identified and investigated, namely, the construction of the figurative and conceptual structure of the work. The article reveals the concept, paying special attention to metaphors, their classification, use, and translation. The results of the study of the problem of verbalization of the linguistic and cultural concept AMERICAN DREAM through metaphor in F. S. Fitzgerald’s works and in M. Pinchevsky’s translations reveal the conceptual, syntactic and semantic components of the considered expressive means in the translation aspect, as well as show the differences in the language norms of English and Ukrainian, which is of great importance for improving the methods translation of texts loaded with linguistic and stylistic techniques.

A Stylo - Pragmatic Analysis of Nadia Hashimi’s ‘The Pearl That Broke Its Shell’

Abstract: Linguistic features are intended to be investigated in some literary works as carried out in the current study. This study conducted a stylo-pragmatic investigation of linguistic characteristics in the debut work of Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell. The primary objective of this research is to focus on the pragmatic analysis of the chosen speech acts in various contexts, in addition to exploring the stylistic techniques utilized in those specific texts. Pragmatics elucidates that the utilization of language in unconventional manners is deemed permissible, on the condition that language users possess an understanding of their actions. Linguistic stylistics delves into the linguistic characteristics of a given text, focusing predominantly on the utilization of language and its impact on said text. Hence this paper investigates the selected contexts in the mentioned novel by Hashimi where the texts are analyzed pragmatically besides the stylistics investigation. The study spots light on the enriched style of Nadia Hashimi in the novel “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell”.

The originality of Chinoiserie-style garden architecture in England in the XVIII century

The article "The originality of Chinoiserie-style garden architecture in England in the XVIII century" explores the development and specifics of Chinoiserie style in the landscape architecture of England. Chinoiserie style refers to the use of Chinese motifs and stylistic techniques in European architecture. The aim of the work is to identify the specifics of the arrangement of English gardens and parks in the Chinoiserie style. The subject of the study is the stylistic features of the embodiment of Chinoiserie gardens and parks. The object of the study is parks and garden architecture in the Chinoiserie style in England. The study covers the 18th century, revealing the contribution of individual architects and the influence of Chinese art on the development of garden architecture. The presented analysis demonstrates how architectural styles of Western and Eastern culture can mix. English gardens and parks are evidence of the influence of Chinese aesthetics on landscape gardening, which later spread to continental Europe. In the course of the research, the following methods were mainly used: historical, historical-genetic, historical-comparative. In the study of specific objects of landscape architecture, methods of art criticism analysis were applied — formal, stylistic and comparative methods. The article examines specific English monuments of landscape architecture of the XVIII century taken as examples the Chinoiserie style. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the features of the Chinoiserie style in the landscape architecture of England were highlighted and a comparison of English architectural objects in the Chinoiserie style with Chinese analogues was carried out. The conducted research revealed the English specifics in the approach to interpreting Chinese designs of gardens and parks and architectural projects in the XVIII century. English gardeners and architects were inspired by Chinese aesthetics and used oriental elements for decoration, but did not follow all architectural canons and traditions. This gave rise to a new Chinoiserie style, a combination of Chinese and European landscape art that spread throughout Europe.

PARALLELISM AND ITS IMPACT ON NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN “TRANSATLANTIC” BY COLUM MCCANN

This article analyzes the stylistic techniques employed by Colum McCann in his novel “TransAtlantic” to convey themes of loss, reconciliation, and the personal impacts of historical events. By focusing on parallelism, epizeuxis, and fragmented narrative, the study examines how these devices deepen the narrative and engage the reader.

Stylistic Techniques in Demotivational Posters During COVID-19 Pandemic and Self-Isolation Period

This study examines the visual stylistic devices used in the iconic component of demotivators during the pandemic and self-isolation period. It is argued that the significant impact potential of the iconic component of demotivators stimulates their creators to produce more expressive visual components. Achieving this goal is possible through the implementation of stylistic techniques not only in the verbal text but also in the accompanying imagery. It is noted that the most frequently used visual stylistic device in the analyzed material is metaphor. The impactful effect in the examined demotivators was also achieved through the presence of visual hyperbole, comparisons, allusions, contamination, gradation, pun, allegory, parallelism, and antithesis in the iconic part. It was found that stylistic techniques exclusively in the iconic part are present in 47% of the analyzed polycodal texts (in 13% of cases, the verbal component was completely absent, in 34% of cases, the presented verbal text served as an explanation of the meaning reflected in the illustration). 53% of the examined polycodal texts demonstrated the presence of stylistic techniques in both the iconic and verbal parts. Furthermore, the duplication of stylistic techniques in the verbal text and the image is characteristic only for 33% of the analyzed demotivators.

A Fictional Depiction of the Peculiarities of the African Female Gender Experiences in the Diaspora

The issue of Africans in the Diaspora stretches historically to the time when Africa began having contact with the outside world, particularly the Arabs, Chinese, Turks, and others. Beginning with the 16th to the 18th C, the contacts heightened during the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade. Thereafter, Africans have found themselves in the Diaspora for many reasons. This has elicited a myriad of reactions to their experiences in the Diaspora. Therefore, the study sought to investigate the fictional depiction of African immigrant experiences in the Diaspora. It was guided by two objectives namely: to establish the fictional depiction of the peculiarities of the African female experiences in the Diaspora, and to investigate the narrative styles adopted to convey these experiences. The focus was on four novels: Americanah (2013), Minaret (2005), We Need New Names (2013), and The Seasons of Thomas Tebo (1986). The study was library-based research. Its significance is in the fact that it gives a snapshot of the two sides of migration- positive and negative. The results revealed that the African female gender faces indescribable discrimination, undergoes the pain of assimilation into the foreign culture, has to work two jobs in order to sustain life in the Diaspora, is always haunted by the fear of aging and having nothing to show for it, plus several other challenges. The diasporic spaces also catalyse character changes in these migrants. As a result, they adopt confusing mannerisms, fail to wish away homesickness, become two-faced hypocrites, are subdued, submissive and in extreme cases – go through a mental breakdown. It was discovered that migrant fiction is narrated through humour, flashback, irony, detailed description, suspense and other stylistic techniques. The study concluded that migration is now a contemporary and central theme in much of African fiction, especially by a new generation of African writers

Лексико-стилистический анализ рекламных текстов через призму философии Эриха Фромма («Иметь или Быть?») (на примере постов из официального телеграм-канала «Росмолодежь»)

<p>This article is dedicated to the lexical and stylistic analysis of advertising texts published in the official Telegram channel of Federal Agency for Youth Affairs («Росмолодежь», hereafter Rosmolodezh), in which Erich Fromm's philosophy is traced. The author identifies the category of advertising texts with such telegram posts that contain advertisements of Rosmolodezh’s projects and elements of social advertising. The author analyzes the lexical and stylistic techniques used by writers who create texts for the social network Telegram to influence the target audience (young people of Russia) through the Fromm's ideas «To Have or to Be?». As a result of the study, the author of the article identifies the main linguistic features used by writers in texts to attract readers’ attention in the advertising message.</p>

ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ПАРАЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ В СОЗДАНИИ СТИЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ ПРИЁМОВ

The relevance of the article is confirmed by the fact that creolized texts are increasingly becoming a vestige of information transmission not only within each individual country, but also at the level of the entire Internet space, thereby creating a risk for the development of an information war between countries. However, it should also be noted that the information transmitted in modern segments of social networks consists, as a rule, of verbal and illustrative parts, and therefore creolized texts often serve as a tool for cooperation between peoples and countries. The article examines the features of the implementation of the stylistic technique of double actualization of meaning in paralinguistically active texts, which are carried out using both verbal and non-verbal components. The main types of double actualization of meaning are highlighted, depending on the participation of paralinguistic means of expression in the creation of this technique. The following research methods were used: structural method, descriptive method, semantic analysis and component analysis method.

Mohammad Ebrahim Jafari: Aesthetics of Painting in Poetry

The article is devoted to the creative heritage of the outstanding figure of Iranian culture — poet and artist Mohammad Ebrahim Jafari (1940–2018). The novelty of the presented research is determined by the almost complete absence of scientific works devoted to this issue: basic biographical facts, analysis of artistic language and the specific imagery of M. E. Jafari are poorly represented even in the Persian language. The purpose of the work is to identify the features of the national-cultural horizon of the synthetic genre combining painting and poetry developed by Jafari. To achieve this goal, it was necessary, firstly, to trace the poet’s biography; secondly, to clarify the nature of the artistic images created by him at different stages of his life and to analyze the original method of the author’s initiative as a way of artistic enrichment of the new synthetic genre. The multifaceted nature of the research subject determined the need for an interdisciplinary approach and the use of a complex of methods such as biographical, hermeneutic, and comparative typological. The author of the article has studied all the video materials and interviews of the poet published to date, his paintings, as well as a collection of selected poems. The author of the article also translated, for the first time, from Persian all the poetic material presented in the text. The study showed that M. E. Jafari, who does not differentiate the forms of creativity, easily transfers the stylistic techniques of his paintings to poems, which fills his lyrics with different shades of colors and smells. Poetic rhythm can be seen in his paintings, at the same time, abstract pictorial images embody the most significance for the poet in terms of acuity of perception, creating images of space and time as a unique experience, extremely concrete in its strength and depth. The masterly combination of abstract expressiveness and specificity of the sensual image makes it possible to attribute the deeply personal artistic creativity of M. E. Jafari to the cultural wave of new poetry, which meets the basic principles of the philosophy of Iranian modernism.

Культурно-специфические особенности реализации речевой модели коммуникативного давления (на примере американской лингвокультуры)

The article is devoted to the study of the communicative pressure speech model functioning, based on the rhetorical device of sarcasm in the context of American linguaculture. The work analyzes the mechanism by which communicative pressure is carried out, the features of the relationship between the components of its model and their nature. The research material is represented by the products of English-language oral interpersonal discourse, namely, dialogic statements borrowed from American films. A three-component model which makes it possible for the pressure to function consists of logos, ethos and pathos, and the confrontational nature of its impact is determined by a conflictogene involved in the model of its implementation. The research makes a conclusion about the implementation of a complex three-stage mechanism of the communicative pressure model during the manifestation of sarcasm in speech. The article establishes the primary nature of logos conflictogenes in a sarcastic statement, which can be represented by various forms of absurdity. The analysis of the linguistic material allows us to identify the features of the implementation of the pressure model in the American linguaculture in the process of localizing the global trend of aggressive speech interaction. Methods of implementation of logos conflictogenes, found in American dialogic speech, include both tactics of logical pragmatic absurdity and lexical and stylistic techniques that give rise to the process of violation and distortion of the semantics and expose semantic absurdity. The first group covers such techniques as breaking the semantic connection between statements, equating the part and the whole, reducing the semantic volume of a concept, and contrasting explicit and implicit knowledge. The second group is represented by an absurd hyperbolization, a simile, a metaphor, a zeugma. The absurdization of a speech utterance gives rise to the secondary pathos and ethos conflictogenes. Meanwhile, destructive pathos serves as an independent source of tertiary ethos conflictogenes caused by violation of ethical standards of interpersonal communication. The degree of an impact of communicative pressure can be intensified through various pragmastylistic means.

The Letter‐Writing Manual and the Epistolary Novel

AbstractThe relationship between real and fictional letters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been the source of much critical debate. Disagreement surrounds the extent to which the increasingly popular genre of the epistolary novel drew on the practices and techniques of actual correspondence. On the one hand are those who see epistolary fiction as developing out of real‐life letters, with some literary‐stylistic additions. On the other hand are those who reject this teleological approach in favour of one that emphasizes the functional versatility of the letter in the period, and the difficulty, if not impossibility, of drawing a distinction between its real and fictional incarnations. This relationship between real correspondence and epistolary fiction is brought into sharp focus by the genre of the letter‐writing manual, which rose sharply in popularity from the last two decades of the seventeenth century onwards. Concentrating on John Hill's The Young Secretary's Guide (1689), Thomas Goodman's The Experience's Secretary (1699), and G. F.'s The Secretary's Guide (1705), in particular, in this article, I suggest that the style of the letter‐writing manual from this period can, with caution, be compared with that of the epistolary novel. I pay particular attention to the ways in which letters in these manuals respond to and quote from each other and the often subtle ways in which they thus incorporate different voices. This polyvocality is taken further in Samuel Richardson's manual Familiar Letters (1741), which, as is well known, provided the raw material for his first novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1741). I demonstrate that some of the stylistic techniques which would prove crucial to the great epistolary novels of the later eighteenth century, including Richardson's, can be found, at least in embryonic form, in the letter‐writing manuals of the Restoration period.

КОНЦЕПТ «ПАТРИОТ» В РЕКЛАМНЫХ ПОСТАХ ДЛЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ МОЛОДЁЖИ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПУБЛИКАЦИЙ ИЗ ОФИЦИАЛЬНОГО ТЕЛЕГРАМ-КАНАЛА «РОСМОЛОДЁЖЬ»)

This article is devoted to the study of the concept PATRIOT in advertising posts aimed at forming patriotic beliefs among Russian youth. The author analyses the lexical and stylistic techniques used by the writers of advertising texts in the social network Telegram to create the image of a patriot in the minds of the target audience (Russian youth). As a result of the research the author identifies the main linguistic strategies and means by which the concept «patriot» is formed in the addressees of advertising texts.

Лингвистический анализ поэмы С.Е. Есенина «Черный человек»: внутренняя структура и контекст прочтения

The paper is to study the linguistic potential of a poetic text by the example of S.A. Yesenin’s poem “The Black Man.” The poetic text is considered as a multidimensional structure, the main feature of which is its unity, namely the interaction of all its components (sound and syntactic organization of the text, variability and versatility of the use of lexical meanings). The authors look at the poetic text as a complex interdependent structure, which characterizes the relationship between the phonological, syntactic and lexical organizations of the text. Each level of language or their close interaction can be dominant in the formation of the main idea of the work. The sound side directly affects the form and content, giving the work of S.A. Yesenin the necessary meaning and tonality. Phonetic stylistic techniques create a certain mood: assonance and alliteration. In order to evoke painful and gloomy feelings in the reader, epithets with negative stylistic coloring, metaphors, contextual antonyms, personifications and comparisons are used at the lexical level. As for the syntactic means of expression, the main techniques in this case are refrains, inversion, silence, exclamation and rhetorical question. Thus, the proposed format of the analysis of the poetic text allows you to more clearly reveal the drama of the main idea and feel a special gloomy atmosphere that affects the emotional and psychological perception of the poem by the reader.

Hoffmann traditions in Selma Lagerlöf ’s novel “Gösta Berling’s Saga”

The article focuses on the study of Hoffmann traditions in Selma Lagerlöf ’s novel “Gösta Berling’s Saga”. The features of Hoffman’s poetics in the novel are revealed by using the methodology of the “Hoffman’s complex”, which is an ideological and thematic complex of motives and stylistic techniques inherent in the works by E. T. A. Hoffman. The “Hoffmann’s complex” is manifested in the novel in the problem of the rebellion of the Romantic hero-creator in relation to faith and religion, the problem of the relationship of the Romantic hero with femininity, the opposition of secular and Christian love, the motive of mechanization of man and society in the new capitalist industrial formation. The features of Hoffmann’s poetics were manifested in the novel “Gösta Berling’s Saga” also in the interweaving of Hoffmann’s images (Don Juan (“Don Juan”), Medardus (“The Devil’s Elixirs”) and plots (a defrocked monk, who under the influence of wine as an incarnate temptation, commits crimes and experiences a split of personality (“The Devil’s Elixirs”) and a rebellious Romantic hero in search of an unattainable ideal world in which his disintegrated personality must find consolidation (“Don Juan”). The conclusion sums up that S. Lagerlöf, relying on the plot, problems and images of E. T. A. Hoffman’s works (“Don Juan”, “The Devil’s Elixirs”, “Adventure on New Year’s Eve”), creates the author’s concept of spiritual transformation of personality through Christian love and reconsiders the image of a Romantic hero, transforming it into a new type of Christian Neo-Romantic hero.

Жанровые особенности песен и благопожеланий в свадебной обрядности алтайцев

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the genre elements present in Altai songs and wedding well-wishes. The relevance is due to the lack of research on the poetics of wedding genres in Altai folklore in modern folklore studies. The novelty is identifying the functions and semantics of wedding songs and good wishes in the wedding rituals of the Altai people. During Altai wedding ceremonies, oral wishes and songs, known as jaŋar, are performed at every wedding stage. The distinctive characteristic of these genres is their strong association with ritual actions. Songs are an integral part of various ceremonies, including matchmaking, weddings, the bride’s procession, braiding, and rituals in the house of the bride’s parents. Good wishes are predominantly sung during the blessing ceremony. In terms of genre pragmatics, wedding songs and good wishes play a role in blessing a young family and honoring the parents of the bride and groom. The functional and semantic feature of wedding songs and good wishes of the Altaians is the affirmation of moral and ethical values and principles of living in society. The objective world of the Altai wedding is filled with symbolic meanings determined by their role in the ritual. The analysis of wedding songs and good wishes revealed the wide range of artistic and stylistic techniques employed in language, encompassing both formal and semantic aspects to convey specific conceptual ideas.

ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ РОССИЙСКИХ ПРОМЫСЛОВ ЛАКОВОЙ МИНИАТЮРЫ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ДЕКОРАТИВНОМ ИСКУССТВЕ И ДИЗАЙНЕ

This article examines the Russian crafts of lacquer miniature painting in the context of the manifestation of their artistic features in modern decorative and applied arts and design. The authors’ goal is to identify stylistic techniques of Russian varnishes and analyze the possibilities of using authentic characteristics of folk art in the author’s design of design objects and decorative arts. The article presents the general and specific in the visual arts and technologies of Fedoskino, Palekh, Kholuy and Mstera. It has been determined that Fedoskino has the artistic features of realistic oil painting, and Palekh, Kholui and Mstera, formed on the basis of icon painting, acquired the features of conventionally decorative painting with tempera paints. The article lists the specific artistic features of each of the declared crafts of lacquer miniatures. The authors come to the conclusion that the original Russian traditions of folk painting have recognizable traditions that have developed over decades, which may represent an “artistic code” of Russian culture. Using the wealth of artistic expressiveness of lacquer miniatures in our country, the opportunity has been formed to create modern works of art with decoding the source of inspiration in the process of designing new products of design and applied creativity.

Stylistic Analysis of Laxmi Prasad Devkota's Poem 'The Lunatic'

This study is based on a stylistic analysis of the poem 'The Lunatic' by a great modern poet of Nepal, Laxmi Prasad Devkota. This analysis focuses on the foregrounding, metaphors, graphological, phonological, morphological, and semantic levels to explore and analyze what the poet wants to convey by describing his own experiences, showing the complex relationship between the poet and people living in the society that is going through social transformation. Stylistic techniques and methods are tactfully used to unfold the hidden feelings and experiences of the poet's life. Keeping in view stylistics is the study of different devices employed in language that give literary style and beauty to any writing; this article aims to explore and reveal hidden realities of poetic lines used in the poem 'The Lunatic'. This analysis helps us understand the poetic expression that can beautifully provide the picture of social transformation through the conflict between the poet and society. The stylistic devices used in this poem are the setting of the poem, along with the figures of speech. This study examines how the changing social context affects the poet's feelings and thoughts when composing poetry. Furthermore, the article explores how figurative speech enhances the impact of poetry on the readers' thinking.

THE LINGUISTIC STATUS OF IDEATION IN STARTUP DISCOURSE

The paper is devoted to the study of the linguistic status of ideation in startup discourse and its influence on the promotion of innovations in the context of digital marketing in Technology for elaborating on effective professional and marketing communication. The development of startups is the practical discipline that embraces the toolkit of methods to work out, generate, and promote ideas, and their analysis to find out the effective investment policy. Specific language means and strategies are used to present ideas, concepts, and solutions. In the startup environment, they are studied from the point of view of the interaction of verbal (startup pitch decks – information dominant in the ideation process) and visual modes (visual communication tool Venngage for Business which helps to convey complex content in a more visually appealing way – performative dominant in the ideation process). The rhetorical aura of the ideator (ethos, logos, pathos) and his synergistic enthusiasm (entrepreneurial spirit and dynamism) are determined separately, aiming at conveying innovative ideas to attract investments and build effective communications with clients. Information dominant ideation is updated with a logical presentation of arguments, facts, statistics, and persuasive evidence that confirm the idea’s value and convince the audience of the startup success.Performative dominant ideation is actualized by multimodal interactivity that activates the perception of the idea by the audience, through the interference of verbal and visual means stimulated by neurotransmitters. Among these we single out the use of emotionally colored words, metaphors, and stylistic techniques that cause emotional resonance in the audience, acting on consciousness and subconsciousness.The research is based on the platforms Techleaders Talks, Keynote developers speakers, and IT Arena startup competition. The novelty of the work consists of working out the linguistic status of ideation in the startup format, namely in the development of idea presentation tools (idea pitching). As a result of the research, it was determined that idea pitching is a rhetorical phenomenon of professional communication that works in the paradigm of design thinking and has a clear toolkit aimed both at attracting the attention of investors and the inquisitiveness and interest of the audience. Aspects of idea pitching, such as the ideator's rhetorical aura, synergistic enthusiasm, persuasive argumentation, and multimodal interactivity are highlighted and their functions in the presented startup ideas are determined. The article also analyzes Google startups from the point of view of linguistic means of presenting the startup's philosophy, mission, values, and culture.