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Brave New World Stylistic Analysis

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Ain Shams University Al-Alsun Faculty English Department 2016 - 2017 The Sullen Panorama of the Ferocious Worlds in Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984: A Comparative Stylistic Analysis. Name: Nourhan Ragab Hafez Abdelall Supervisor: Dr. Bassma Talaat Outline Thesis Statement: If Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's technocratic purgatory, Orwell's 1984 describes a hell beyond Huxley's worst fears of the future as revealed by qualitative and quantitative comparative stylistic analysis of the two novels regarding nouns, adjectives and verbs. I. Introduction II. Theoretical part A. Defining stylistics B. Using corpora for stylistics analysis C. Online corpus analysis software III. Application A. Novels synopsis …show more content…

Conspicuously, stylistics is pregnant with style, and style has subjected many linguists to a prolonged spate of continuous brainwork. Nowadays, the literary text becomes in a dire need for a linguistic analysis and description. According to Enkvist, Spencer and Gregory (1964), there are three classifications for the definitions of style. First, there are definitions based on the point of view of the author. Secondly, there are definitions that are concerned with the text itself. Thirdly, there are definitions that are formed according to the impression of the reader (pp.10-11). However, Charles W. Hockett (1958) puts a briefed persuasive definition for style. He defines it as the product of two utterances that carry the same piece of information but are really different in their linguistic structure. Hence, they differ in style …show more content…

Hence, it is necessary to emblematise the difference between qualitative and quantitative approach. According to Assessment Capacities Project (2012), the Qualitative data sheds light on answering the questions of how and why. But, the quantitative data addresses the questions of how many and how much. To epitomise, a qualitative question may ask: what is the difference between 'various' and 'variety'? , or how is 'profound' more effective and meaningful than 'deep'? On the other hand, a quantitative question may ask: how many times the word 'cannibal' is repeated in The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? For further illumination, the aim of the qualitative research method is identifying intangible factors. Its main advantages are embodied in its richness, detailed information, and depth of analysis. The quantitative research method purpose, on the other hand, is to test pre-determined hypotheses using statistical methods. The quantitative data is mainly numeric and its main merits are the numeric estimates, the verifiable data, and the uncomplicated data analysis. Thus, both qualitative and quantitative approaches are empirical, but each collects various kinds of information using different

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