Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?

Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?

The use of texts as a source of data to test ideas or hypotheses is not widespread, but neither is it rare. The objective of this paper is to analyse two different types of texts and to determine which one is more literary than the other. Carter�s (2004) model of literariness is used for the an...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/1/Which_One_is_more_Literary_3FA_Speech_or_a_Visitor_3Fs_Guide-Journal-.pdf
id ump-2071
recordtype eprints
spelling ump-20712015-03-03T07:54:32Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/ Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide? Andrew, Yau-hau Tse P Philology. Linguistics The use of texts as a source of data to test ideas or hypotheses is not widespread, but neither is it rare. The objective of this paper is to analyse two different types of texts and to determine which one is more literary than the other. Carter�s (2004) model of literariness is used for the analysis. The findings reveal that the speech (text a) is dependent on itself and contains examples of stylistic and lexical features, words of contrast at text and sound level, parallelism, evocative descriptive language and cross-sentential repetition. The Greece tourist guide (text b) is medium independent and carries examples of archaic and syntactic features, emotive action verbs, evocative descriptive language, polysemy and displaced interaction. To conclude, it is quite difficult to measure which text is more literary unless the two texts are of identical genre. 2011-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/1/Which_One_is_more_Literary_3FA_Speech_or_a_Visitor_3Fs_Guide-Journal-.pdf Andrew, Yau-hau Tse (2011) Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide? International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1 (5). pp. 237-241. ISSN 2219-1933 (print), 2219-6021 (online)
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Local University
institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang
building UMP Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
language English
topic P Philology. Linguistics
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
description The use of texts as a source of data to test ideas or hypotheses is not widespread, but neither is it rare. The objective of this paper is to analyse two different types of texts and to determine which one is more literary than the other. Carter�s (2004) model of literariness is used for the analysis. The findings reveal that the speech (text a) is dependent on itself and contains examples of stylistic and lexical features, words of contrast at text and sound level, parallelism, evocative descriptive language and cross-sentential repetition. The Greece tourist guide (text b) is medium independent and carries examples of archaic and syntactic features, emotive action verbs, evocative descriptive language, polysemy and displaced interaction. To conclude, it is quite difficult to measure which text is more literary unless the two texts are of identical genre.
format Article
author Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
author_facet Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
author_sort Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
title Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
title_short Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
title_full Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
title_fullStr Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
title_full_unstemmed Which One is More Literary - A Speech or a Visitor's Guide?
title_sort which one is more literary - a speech or a visitor's guide?
publishDate 2011
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2071/1/Which_One_is_more_Literary_3FA_Speech_or_a_Visitor_3Fs_Guide-Journal-.pdf
first_indexed 2023-09-18T21:55:35Z
last_indexed 2023-09-18T21:55:35Z
_version_ 1777414056859140096

Similar Items