England england by julian barnes5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() A total of 42 students from the English Language Teaching Department of Çukurova University participated and submitted a questionnaire about their reading habits and self-image in terms of being good readers of Turkish and English literature. ![]() This study investigated the effect of speech and thought presentation on the comprehension and appreciation of English prose fiction by Turkish students. Finally, the results of the analysis of the passage are consistently compared with the results of the analysis of a larger corpus, in order to make more reliable claims about its peculiar characteristics and potential effects. Both of these phenomena are shown to be particularly central to the extract from Barnes's novel. This model accounts for a larger variety of phenomena than was previously the case, including, for example, the presentation of "hypothetical" words and thoughts, and the "embedding" of SW&TP inside other instances of SW&TP. ![]() The analysis also demonstrates the explanatory potential of a model of speech, writing, and thought presentation (SW&TP) that was developed on the basis of the analysis of a corpus of written narratives. ![]() My main aim is to show how Barnes's linguistic choices might affect readers' perceptions of, and potential empathy with, the characters involved. In this article I discuss the choices, patterns, and subtle variations in the presentation of characters' words and thoughts in an extract from Julian Barnes's novel England, England. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |