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On Characterization Through Syntactic Foregrounding in Everyday Use
ZHENG Li-sha, ZHANG Shun-sheng
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2018.09.002
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Language foregrounding is the artistically motivated deviation of language, with which readers’ attraction is drawn to the author’s attention so that the effect of literary depiction is enhanced. The present paper analyzes the sentence length, ellipsis, and inversion in Everyday Use from the perspective of syntax to discuss their effects on characterization.
Everyday Use, stylistics, syntactic foregrounding, characterization
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