Discourse Analysis I
The Model Millionaire is a short story written by Oscar Wilde. It as a whole constitutes a text, what Brown and Yule (1983) define as “the verbal record of a communicative event. In the same sense, Halliday and Hasan (1976) are concerned with the principles of connectivity, which bind a text together and force co-interpretation. Halliday and Hasan point out that whether a set of sentences do or do not constitute a text depends on cohesive relationships within and between the sentences, which creates texture and by means of cohesive devices. Brown and Yule’s critic relays on the idea that Halliday and Hasan did not take into account the listener/reader, who builds up a representation model of what is being spoken.
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By means of different passages taken from the story, it is expected to shed light on how cohesion is achieved in a text.
Another objective proposed in this work is connected to putting into practice Benveniste’s concept as regards the subjectivity in language. It is aimed to respond to the question of how is it that we, human beings become subjects by using the …show more content…
The poetic function of language focuses its attention on the message, but it must no be reduced only to the field of poetry. Poetic function is not the sole function of verbal art but only its dominant, determining function, whereas in all other verbal activities it acts as a subsidiary, accessory constituent. According to Jakobson, the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence, that is to say, things that may be synonyms or antonyms or related in some way, into the axis of combination, into what the author wants to choose to be present at the moment of writing in this particular case. Let us take an example from the short story:
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realized. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance”. The author chose a very elegant way of saying that his character was not intelligent and had no money. Another utterance exemplifying the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection as proposed by Jakobson would
The Model Millionaire is a short story written by Oscar Wilde. It as a whole constitutes a text, what Brown and Yule (1983) define as “the verbal record of a communicative event. In the same sense, Halliday and Hasan (1976) are concerned with the principles of connectivity, which bind a text together and force co-interpretation. Halliday and Hasan point out that whether a set of sentences do or do not constitute a text depends on cohesive relationships within and between the sentences, which creates texture and by means of cohesive devices. Brown and Yule’s critic relays on the idea that Halliday and Hasan did not take into account the listener/reader, who builds up a representation model of what is being spoken.
In this …show more content…
By means of different passages taken from the story, it is expected to shed light on how cohesion is achieved in a text.
Another objective proposed in this work is connected to putting into practice Benveniste’s concept as regards the subjectivity in language. It is aimed to respond to the question of how is it that we, human beings become subjects by using the …show more content…
The poetic function of language focuses its attention on the message, but it must no be reduced only to the field of poetry. Poetic function is not the sole function of verbal art but only its dominant, determining function, whereas in all other verbal activities it acts as a subsidiary, accessory constituent. According to Jakobson, the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence, that is to say, things that may be synonyms or antonyms or related in some way, into the axis of combination, into what the author wants to choose to be present at the moment of writing in this particular case. Let us take an example from the short story:
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realized. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance”. The author chose a very elegant way of saying that his character was not intelligent and had no money. Another utterance exemplifying the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection as proposed by Jakobson would