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Stylistics In Literature

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How the Study of Stylistics / Language in Literature Can Help Improve One’s English Language.

English language which is now an international language was first from early medieval England. Now, most countries speak English as their second language except United kingdom, united states, new Zealand, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Caribbean. It stands in the third place native language all around the world. Many countries received the English language influence when the whites monopolized the other countries. Through imperialism, the spreaded as the whites talk to the citizens of other countries. Since most citizens did not know English, the white establish at least one English oriented school to give exposure on English language …show more content…

Since stylistic studies teach new vocabularies, one can interpret a text correctly from different language translate it into English. For example, my native language is Tamil and if I write my ideas in Tamil, not everyone can understand the text except for Indians. So when I translate my ideas in English, my ideas shouldn’t run away from the actual meaning of my concept when I translate it into English. Remarkably, stylistic studies which help to improve English vocabulary, this contribute to use a suitable terms to convey my ideas. Reversely, if I want to translate the English sentences in Tamil, I need to understand the English terms deeply so that I do not misunderstand the meaning while I translate to my native language. If I translate wrongly, the wrong concepts are the one that I am going to focus. But if we follow the right track, it help one to improve the language. Come back to stylistic studies, the main notion of this study is giving acknowledgement of how to translate the literature language to linguictic form because not everyone can understand some particular words from literature, but if it is translated to basic language, it show how good one had master the English language. So if others convey message wrongly, one is able to identify the mistakes and understand it in correct manner. One of the examples is through graphology; one should find the …show more content…

When one study stylistics, there is a topic on meter and rhyme. When study about meter, one should focus on syllable and relative stress on syllable. Through syllable, there are beats in a word. So when one wants to hear the beats clearly, one has to pronouns the word carefully. Sometimes there is higher beat in a word which is mentioned as stress. So the stressed beat should be read louder and with higher pitch. If the vowel quality is low, then the syllable will be weak too. Rhythm helps meter knowledge to read a phrase with stressed and unstressed syllable. Without realizing, one is learning to pronouns a word correctly and implies great intonation which makes the English language to be spoken as standard English. The other study of stylistics which helps to improve pronunciations is phonetics. Through the study of phonemes, one learns to differentiate the sounds on one word from another. Therefore, it aids to improve one English language through effective focus on

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