Use Of Personification Research Articles

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Word ‘Ghost’ in the Collection of Kenyah Stories

To illustrate the concept of ghosts, this research aimed to explain how they were described in Òma Lóngh and Lebu’ Kulit language, the collection of Dayak Kenyah short stories. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method based on figurative language personification theory. Data analysis is conducted using corpus analysis with the AntConc application. This research concluded that there are four categories that employ personification in relation to the term 'ghost' namely the ghosts act like human, the ghosts being described as dying like humans, ghosts can transform into other forms and ghosts being described as animals. The use of personification in these stories allows readers to relate to and believe in the ghost, enhancing the drama and suspense of the story. The ghosts in this research were only described using personification. Further research might investigate ghosts through different theories to see how their appearance can contribute to certain meanings in the stories.

Language Style in Advertising: A Study of the Print Media

This study investigates the language style of English commercial advertisements in the print media. The study seeks to find out the kinds of language and style mostly used in English advertisement; this is because previous studies in stylistics have concentrated on the literary approach to stylistics. This study finds this technique very one-sided and subsequently proposes a dual approach to the analysis of the language style of advertisement. The research employs William Well’s stylistic theory as a theoretical construct. The analyses used the descriptive approach. The research used note taking as the instrument to elicit data. We found out that the personification style is mostly used and the occurrence in our corpus is about four times; it is followed by alliteration style which occurs in three advertisements and assonance style which occurs twice in our corpora. The next is the use of simile, anastrophe, apostrophes, asyndeton, poly-asyndeton, and chiasmus styles which appeared once in the advertisements. The advertisements also used narrative style, dramatic style, newsy style, dialogue style, and humorous style. The study concludes that in the use of personification and alliteration styles, the creators of the advertisements mostly seek to use simple and interesting style to create pleasant, mellifluous, captivating sentences, which will persuade, influence, and capture the readers’ attention to patronize their products.

PENGGUNAAN GAYA BAHASA PERSONIFIKASI DALAM NOVEL LAYLA MAJNUN KARYA NIZAMI GANJAVI

This study aims to describe the form and meaning of personification in Layla Majnun's novel. This type of research is descriptive descriptive. The focus of this research is the words or sentences that contain personification in Layla Majnun's novel. The technique of collecting data is by reading, observing, and taking notes. The results of this study indicate that the form of the use of personification in Layla Majnun's novel has 3 basic forms, namely based on linguistic form including 2 forms, namely words and phrases; based on personification objects consisting of 4 forms including the solar system, solid objects, gaseous objects, and flowers; based on personification activities include 2 forms, namely being able to do and having properties. The meaning of the use of personification in Layla Majnun's novel is oriented towards connotative meaning, namely affective, emotive, gerreflective, figurative, pictorial, and stylistic.

The Use of Personification and Apostrophe as Facilitators in Teaching Poetry

In this paper, the author presents a rationale and offers suggestions forwhy personification and apostrophe, as main figures of speech, could beused in the EFL classroom as well as how teachers and/or teachers intraining might use them to enhance understanding and appreciatingEnglish poetry, in other words, to facilitate learning. First the researcherdefines the two figures, giving examples, and then the function of bothfigures would be stated. The author makes a survey of the methods ofteaching personification and apostrophe in English poetry. A list ofaccessible personification and apostrophe resources is shared at the end.

FIGURE OF SPEECH: SHIFT IN STYLE IN THE POETRY OF W.D HOWELLS AND T.S ELLIOT

This research aims to analyze the stylistic turn in the poems about Realism entitled "Dead" and "If" by William Dean Howell and “The Fire Sermon”and "The Burial of Dead" by T.S. Eliot about Modernism. This study uses Zienkowski's (2011) theory to show the language style embodied in literary works. This research uses a qualitative descriptive design to reveal and investigate the phenomenon of style embodied in the poet. The data taken are words, phrases, and sentences related to the discourse of beauty. Data to support this research is taken from articles, journals, websites, and previous studies with the same topic but with different objects. Based on theory and analysis, the researcher argues that the poem "If," an early poem by William, uses a lot of personification and metaphor to express strong feelings and ideas, often using the language of nature. Meanwhile, in the poem "Dead," William also displays a very contrasting style. The use of personification and metaphor. "Burial of the Dead" from "The Waste Land" uses a fragmented structure and a large number of metaphors and metonymies to depict the fragmentation and loss of meaning in society. In "The Fire Sermon," Eliot explores the spiritual and sexual disillusionment of the post-World War I era. He incorporates various metonymic sounds, allusions and imagery. Thus, this identification can reveal the correlation between the poetry of William Dean Howells and T.S Elliot.

ПОЭТИКА ВЕЩИ КАК ПАМЯТЬ О СИБИРСКОЙ ССЫЛКЕ В КАЛМЫЦКОЙ ЛИРИКЕ

The article examines the poetics of things in Kalmyk lyrics of the 20th - early 21st centuries. as a memory of the Siberian exile, created by poets of different generations in different years in their native and Russian languages. The relevance and novelty of the article is determined by the lack of knowledge of the world of things, reflected in Kalmyk lyrics in the context of the Siberian exile of the Kalmyk people during the period of Stalinist repressions (1943-1957). In the poems, things are presented in the plot, updating in the title of the work certain markers and symbols that characterize the existence of exiled people in a foreign environment during and after the war, in conditions of hunger, cold, illness, and death. Certain things in the texts convey the general atmosphere of everyday life and existence, including through the use of personification, metaphor, comparison, dreams, and memories. The motifs of personal and historical memory in Kalmyk lyrics actualize the connection between generations both in the past and in the present. The original texts of the authors preserve the tradition of Kalmyk versification

Figurative Language Used in the Characterization of Katherine Applegate's Home of the Brave

This paper depicts the types and uses of figurative expressions in the characterization of verse-novel Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate. The objectives of this study are, first, to identify what kinds of figurative language the author uses in the story and second, to identify the use of figurative language in the characterization. As a descriptive qualitative study, the writers applied various literary theories such as figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification), direct characterization, and stylistics. After analyzing the data, the writer found that there are 292 figurative languages found in the verse-novel Home of the Brave, which include: 89 metaphors, 98 similes and 105 personifications. Based on the findings, personification is mostly found throughout the story and the author mostly uses natural elements as comparison. The writer found that the use of personification is suitable for delivering story from narrator’s perspective because he is an immigrant from Sudan who can hardly understand the concept of many unfamiliar things in America. By linking human nature, he describes the world he sees and personifies it. Besides, it also proves that the use of figurative language is successfully employed by the novel’s author in the portrayal of characters physically and mentally as narrated by Kek as the main character of the story, in the view of the first person.

VISUAL ARTISTIC MEANS IN FRENCH ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

The article is devoted to the study of the use of artistic means of visualization, namely visual metaphor and personification in the discourse of French social advertising. The artistic, rhetorical and stylistic features of the use of metaphor and personification in advertising discourse are demonstrated on concrete examples of advertising messages of modern French advertising, taken from print and Internet sources. In general, the discourse of modern French social advertising is rich in artistic means. Many examples of figures of emphasis or understatement, figures of construction and figures of speech were found in the analysed corpus of advertising messages. However, in our opinion, the use of figures of speech, such as metaphor and personification, gives advertising more vivid clarity and imagery, and is therefore the most effective in achieving the final goal of the advertising message – to influence the potential reader. The research demonstrates that the most characteristic of French advertising discourse is the use of zoomorphic metaphor and subject metaphor. The second visual stylistic figure frequently used in French advertising discourse after metaphor is personification. The use of personification is typical of the discourse of French social advertising, as the authors of advertising messages tend to give certain phenomena or objects human qualities.

Personification in EFL learners’ academic writing: A cognitive linguistic stance

The paper offers a report of a small-scale corpus investigation into some advanced EFL learners’ use of personification in academic writing within a higher education context (Mouloud Mammeri University). Its main objective is to shed light on the extent of the occurrence of this phenomenon in their writings. The question raised is whether the examination of their dissertations would reveal extensive use of personification. Conceptual Metaphor Theory constitutes the theoretical framework featuring in this research. Relying on the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (Pragglejaz Group 2007), six master’s dissertations are selected for examination, and a quantitative analysis of the identified metaphorically used words is conducted. The results of the study reveal an overwhelming manifestation of personification. These findings may constitute a small contribution to the field of education, as offering useful data to educational practitioners and researchers.

Moral Code of a Person

The paper reveals the moral code, extolled in the renowned Kipling’s poem “If” by means of cognitive interpretation. The author’s message containing his idea of moral code is unraveled in minimum meaningful spaces of the poem (usually one or two lines), which are analyzed in depth. Each space highlights the trajector features of character and the corresponding reference frames (domains), which serve as background for their understanding. The peculiarity of moral concepts consists in the fact that they are based on the evaluative component and therefore they form binary oppositions. The antagonist for the moral concept within such opposition serves as its benchmark, since the essence of a moral value is revealed only when it is contrasted to its opposite, therefore the paper makes an attempt of alignment trajector domains with the benchmarks. In order to delve into the Kipling’s understanding of moral code the distinguished ethical values were arranged in the form of field model. The nucleus of the model comprises most frequently actualized values from the moral code, while periphery includes values with lower rate of actualization. Along with cognitive analyses of Kipling’s moral doctrine the paper highlights the peculiarities of poetic narration, which include abstract dictum, use of subjunctive mood and symbolism. Particular attention is also paid to the use of personification and metaphor.

Constructing National Identity in Men vs Women’s Magazines: A Case Study from the USA

National identity plays an important role in defining many people’s attitude towards reality. Its representation has remained under the radar within the field of linguistics for decades, while being investigated in a number of different genres, from political speeches to advertisement; in this regard, however, a gap can be found when it comes to magazines. This study focuses on US national context and seeks to reveal how a range of discursive devices—including lexical, syntactic and metaphorical patterns—are used in the representation of nation and national identity in popular magazines published in the US. The analysis provides a comparison based on the target audience’s gender identity. A mixed methods approach is applied to two corpora, covering a time span between 2015 and 2020 and comprising a total of approximately 9 million words from popular magazines aimed respectively at a female ( Allure, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair and Vogue ) and male audience ( Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, Esquire and GQ ). Firstly, we employed corpus-assisted methods to explore the data at a more general level, drawing on concordance and collocation analysis. Secondly, we carried out in-depth, qualitative analysis of relevant words and expressions looking at their wider textual context. Thirdly, we compared the results between corpora. The analysis shows some common patterns—e.g., a strong use of personification of the country, often represented as facing a moment of crisis—as well as differences in how these patterns are articulated in the two corpora.

Олицетворение в речи рассказчика-ребенка (на примере романов “Room” Э. Донохью и “All the Lost Things” М. Сакс)

The article examines personification in the speech of a child narrator. Along with other grammatical and lexical features of a child’s speech, the use of personification by children is distinguished. Personification in a child’s speech, as well as in human speech, can be explained by metaphorical nature of human thinking as well as anthropocentrism of human thinking and speech. Personification can be a characteristic of the speech of a child narrator in fiction intended for adult readership. It is worth noticing that the use of a child narrator as a device is not new in literature. In the course of research, we conducted an analysis of two modern novels written in English: Room by Emma Donoghue (2010) and All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks (2019). The two novels tell the reader about a traumatic experience that happened to the children or their significant others. The novels discuss the topics of abuse (physical and psychological), abduction, isolation, lying and memory. The narrators in the chosen novels are children of preschool and primary school age (5 and 7 years old). The analysis of the narrators’ speech allowed us to find numerous examples of personification, expressed by different parts of speech. All the found examples can be divided into groups according to the object of personification: household items and objects of the world, parts of the human body, animals, abstract notions, plants, and inorganic nature. The analysis showed that personification as a characteristic of speech can fulfill several functions: make the narrator more plausible, express the narrator’s emotions, communicate the reader the information that is crucial for the understanding of the plot.

How Similar are Pharmacy Students and White Blood Cells? Curricular Content Reinforced Through Personification.

This initiative sought to evaluate the use of personification to reinforce immunology concepts among pharmacy students. A two-part question posed to first year pharmacy students asked if they could physically become two white blood cells (WBCs), which would they choose and why. Students received instruction in immunology prior to providing their feedback. Demographics included campus of enrollment and gender designation. Student ratings 1 to 5 reflected approval levels toward this activity's usefulness (1: least; 5 most). One hundred and ten of 117 students selected two WBCs they would physically become if possible (94%). Less than two-thirds of students were female (63%) and the Columbia campus featured approximately a quarter of the students (24%). The most and least common WBCs chosen, as first selections by campus and gender, were statistically significant being neutrophils and basophils, lymphocytes and eosinophils, respectively. The median approval values of the WBC personification activity by campus and gender were similar and did not reach statistical significance, 4.5 and 5, respectively. Pharmacy students commended the personification activity for helping them learn the roles and responsibilities of WBCs. Unique and insightful rationales for the choices made for WBCs persisted among the students. In light of these favorable reviews, this type of activity can be adapted to other areas of pharmacy education.

The Sustainability of Teaching Personification in Language Education: A Qualitative Analysis Using Kwang-Chung Yu’s Free Verse

Many scholars consider Kwang-Chung Yu (1928–2017) a prominent practitioner of free verse. The poetic quality of his work shows considerable ingenuity, and a key feature is his use of personification to create a humorous style. Collection of Humorous Free Verses by Kwang-Chung Yu contains the most representative examples of his work. As there are no existing studies on how Yu’s personification technique could be used for language education, the present study takes a qualitative approach to explore this topic. Of the verses featured in the collection, 88% of them use personification, and 102 personified themes were found overall. The discussion consists of four parts that serve as references for language education: (1) an analysis of examples representing the six categories of personified themes, (2) eight major reflection shortcuts for personification; (3) the association and application of eight types of situations for personification; and (4) a review of an online questionnaire and its positive results. The concluding section summarises Yu’s use of personification and presents a comprehensive model of personification for language education based on a pragmatic analysis. This model is a study of a master poet and is sure to be of interest to anyone who wants to know how personification techniques are crafted.

Humanization of the place in the novel (Holler Habibati) to abdulbaki Joseph

This paper studies the use of personification in Abdulbaqi Yousuf’s novel, Hawler My Beloved . In this novel, personification is a technical and artistic mean utilized to transform non-human entities, such as place itself, into human characters. The setting of the novel is transferred from only being a traditional atmosphere of narration, time, characterization, or storytelling to a human-like existence that perceives what goes around. The humanly perceptions assign the positions and significances of time, places, events, things and people. Personification is embodied in the perspectives of body and psychology, where place itself shows itself as a body that carries out various human actions. These human actions incorporate to different cultural and social dimensions that are clearly reflected in the lives of the humans. Besides, in this novel, several dimensions of human inward feelings and senses are present.

SPEECH ACT OF CRITICIZING, PERSUADING THE AUDIENTS BELIEVES ON “WAR MACHINE” FILM: A PRAGMATIC MUTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE

This aims to reveal the ways of criticizing American government and wheedling the audients believe trough each speech act in movie. Pragmatic multimodal perspective is used to uncover both speech act and the cinematic aspect in order to know how the movie producer criticize and persuade audients to believe. This research is presented Qualitatively and the data taken from David Michôd (2016) work “War Machines”. It was found that the movie has three ways in criticizing the government and persuading the audien to believe. They are; 1. To contradict between speech and multimodality of cinematic to create an offensive criticism structure. 2. Use of mutually supportive between speech acts of and multimodality to create a common criticism structure (mutual affirmation of speech acts and multimodality). 3. The use of personification of institutions to direct criticism of policy holders.

Speech act of criticizing, wheedling the audients believes on “War Machine” Film: A Pragmatic Mutimodal Perspective

This aims to reveal the ways of criticizing American government and wheedling the audients believe trough each speech act in movie. Pragmatic multimodal perspective is used to uncover both speech act and the cinematic aspect in order to know how the movie producer criticize and persuade audients to believe. This research is presented Qualitatively and the data taken from David Michod (2016) work “War Machines”. It was found that the movie has three ways in criticizing the government and persuading the audien to believe. They are: 1) To contradict between speech and multimodality of cinematic to create an offensive criticism structure. 2) Use of mutually supportive between speech acts of and multimodality to create a common criticism structure (mutual affirmation of speech acts and multimodality). 3) The use of personification of institutions to direct criticism of policy holders.

LANGUAGE STYLE OF HABIBURRAHMAN EL-SHIRAZY IN THE DWILOGY OF AYAT-AYAT CINTA: A STYLISTIC STUDY

Novel is an artwork which closely relates to human life and is considered as the representation of human life journey . The language style in novel is the embodiment of language use by an author to express ideas, emotion, opinion, and to give a certain effect. The main problem will be discussed in this study is the language style found in the novels of AAC 1 and 2. This study is about individual language style, an author’s language style who have written best seller novels, namely Habiburrahman El-Shirazy (HES). The approach that is considered very appropriate in understanding the language use of HES in Dwilogy of Ayat-Ayat Cinta (DAAC) is stylistic study. A stylistic study reveals how is the language style used by HES and what effects that are resulted. The approach of this research is a descriptive qualitative research. Descriptive method is used to describe the linguistic facts such as the language style based on lexical choice, sentence structure, and direct or indirect meaning. The use of language style based on lexical choice (diction) in DAAC shows a typical language style of HES as well as shows his ability as a Da’i and man of letters. The analysis of language style based on sentence structure and direct/indirect meaning illustrates the descriptive style of HES. Whatever he describes, it must be very accurate. He gives very detail information of the object being spoken of either background of the story or characterization. Through language style, HES describes the emotions experienced by the characters properly so it makes the readers able to empathize. From the data had been obtained, it reveals that language style used by HES to describe characters or characterization (describe the physical condition, characters, and characteristics), describes its background, tells the plot, and convey the message. The results showed the lexical choice of scientific words and religious words are typical of HES’s language style in his DAAC, the peculiarities of language style based on sentence structure in DAAC seen from the use of repetition (anaphora), and HES’s peculiarity in using language style according to direct or indirect meaning can be seen from the use of personification.

Theorizing Ecclesial Ecocriticism: Pathetic Fallacy in Ecclesiastical Literature on Climate Change

The objective of this paper is to show the Catholic Church's concern with ecology in its literature, its use of literary devices to enhance an effective response to the call for nature's protection and to show to what extent one can hypothesize ecclesial ecocriticism as a theory different from its literary counterparts. The methodology that will be used is that of ecocriticism or green study; this paper is a stylistic investigation of the Catholic Church's discourse on climate change, namely Pope Benedict's encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate on Integral Human Development in Charity and in Truth (2009), and Pope Francis's encyclical letter Laudato Si on Care of our Common Home (2015). Reading these works, one becomes aware that Catholic Church leaders are engaged in a particular type of ecocriticism. How is this different from literary ecocriticism? And for what purpose do church leaders use literary figures in their discourse? These are the questions around which the discussion will be held. The paper will argue that there is an ecclesial ecocriticism endowed with its special characteristics. Our hypothesis is that the use of personification and pathetic fallacy in the two popes' works on nature leads to two types of pathetic fallacies, namely, humanization of nature and naturalization of the human being, thus strengthening this conception of nature as God's creation and gift to humanity, and thus efficiently pleading the latter for nature's protection.

The Use of Personification and Apostrophe as Facilitators in Teaching Poetry

In this paper, the author presents a rationale and offers suggestions for why personification and apostrophe, as main figures of speech, could be used in the EFL classroom as well as how teachers and/or teachers in training might use them to enhance understanding and appreciating English poetry, in other words, to facilitate learning. First the researcher defines the two figures, giving examples, and then the function of both figures would be stated. The author makes a survey about the methods of teaching personification and apostrophe in English poetry. A list of accessible personification and apostrophe resources is shared at the end.