LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY - ARISTOTLE’S POETIC CONCEPT: AN ANALYSIS OF TRAGEDY

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LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY - PLATO’S PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS

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INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – LANGUAGE CHANGE

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – LANGUAGE CHANGE

Languages change in ways that make old sounds into new sounds and words into grammar, and they shift in different directions, so that eventually there are languages different as German and Japanese. At all times, any language is gradually on its way to changing into a new one; the language that is not gradually turning upside-down is one on the verge of extinction. This kind of change is so relentless that it even creates "languages within languages." In separate populations who speak the same language, changes differ. The result is variations upon the language-that is, dialects. Often one dialect is chosen as the standard one, and when it is used in writing, it changes more slowly than the ones that are mostly just spoken. because the permanency of writing has an official look that makes change seem suspicious. But the dialects that are mostly just spoken keep on changing at a more normal pace. Then, the languages of the world tend to mix together on various levels. All languages borrow words from one another; there is no "pure" vocabulary. But some borrow so much vocabulary that there is little original material left, such as in English. And meanwhile, languages spoken alongside one another also trade grammar, coming to look alike the way married couples sometimes do. Some languages are even direct crosses between one language and another, two Languages having "reproduced" along the lines of mitosis. There are several factors which make languages behave like human beings. The circumstances and situation that lead languages to change and adapt are the changing times, new requirements, societal construction and negotiations of identity, power, prestige, gender, age, occupation and the like.

 
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – LANGUAGE CHANGE

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – STYLISTICS

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – STYLISTICS

In this module you are introduced to the subject of stylistics. In this we have discussed about the definitions of style, what is stylistics its meaning and definitions, background of the discipline stylistics, some of the major theoretical concepts of different linguistic or literary schools and movement that helped in developing stylistics as an independent discipline. Later on you have seen how stylistics arrived as a discipline. Further, you have seen what stylistics does or how to analyze a text using stylistic devices. We have also discussed some of the major stylistic devices like foregrounding, deviation etc. For more on this module, please find the e-text, learn more and self-assessment tabs.

 
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS – STYLISTICS