石河子大学外国语学院
课程学期论文
课程名称：文 体 学
论文题目：尤金.拉斯金的《墙壁和障碍》的文体分析
Stylistic Analysis of Eugene Raskin’s Walls and Barriers
姓名：谭文君
班级：英语10级1班
学号：2010505005
带莹字的网名
石门景区 学年：2012-2013-2
Stylistic analysis of Eugene Raskin’s Walls and Barriers
Abstract：
The author of this pasage walls and barriers is Engene Raskin who is an American architect, playwright and compor. Walls and Barriers contrasts the modern notion of wall-as-window with the ancient conception of wall-as-barrier. Also, he compares classical and modern architectures as well as old and new view of money. This passage choos Walls and Barriers as the rearch object to analy in stylistic ways, bad on graphological, lexical, syntactic and mantic levels to find their characters. In graphologial level, it us dash, italic frequently; in lexical level, words length and words class are in proper proportion; in syntactic level, it applies many short ntences; also, the adoption of figures of speech makes the article more intelligible.
Key words: walls and barriers, stylistic analysis,
带紫的成语
舞阳二高 graphologial level, lexical level, syntactic level, figures of speech
Introduction:
As a architect, Raskin wrote the passage with the familiar thing---walls which readers e
everyday, and with the first person to write the passage. This passage starts with a introduction of the opening of a bank building with glass walls. In this passage, he conrasts the modern notion of wall-as-window with the ancient conception of wall-as-barrier, and also compares classical and modern architecture as well as old and new views of money. How has he expressd the things? I will make an analysis of it bad on the stylistic theory and mainly discuss the following aspects: graphology, lexicon, syntax and mantics.
护理专业
梅花怎么形容I At the Graphological Level
1. Punctuation
Punctuation is ud as one of the visual connective devices that help to communicate grammatical and other distinctions in written English. Much dash and italic are ud in the passage to express certain meaning which are very clo to the point Raskin wants to show.
In his generation money was thought of as a tangible commodity---bullion, bank notes, coins---that could be hefted, carried, or stolen.
The banker no longer offers us a safe, he offers us a rvice---a rvice in which the most valuable elements are dash and a creative flair for the invention of large numbers.
Just as the older bank asrted it’s invulnerability, this bank by 鸟的笔顺怎么写its architecture boasts of its imaginative powers.
For one thing, we place greater reliance opon the control of human hostility, not so much by physical barriers, as by the conventions of law and social practice---as well as the availability of mor]torized police.
湘江之战Through the u of dash, readers will know what the exact thing Raskin wants to say, in this passage most of them are ud to explain the things mentioned before, but there are also veral ud to add more information. And the italic words are clo to the main stream, such as safe, rvice, its archite. They are clod to what the author said first in t
he passage---a new bank building with glass walls tted up. Bank is ud to saving money, and need to make money “safe”, this process is a kind of “rvice”, and the bank buiding is “architecture”.
2. Paragraphing
Paragraphing refers to the way in which a text is divided into paragraphs (consisting of one or more ntences). A paragraph has,on the one hand a relatively strong and tight n of internal coherence and on the other hand a relatively loo linkage with the textual material before and after it. The paragraph of Walls and Barriers is relatively short, the longest one have eleven lines, others often six or ven lines. For Raskin writes the passage not only for tho have high education but also for ordinary people. Like the first two paragraphs:
My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fofth Avenue in New York City was immediate and difinite: “You won’t catch me putting my money in there !” he declared. “Not in that glass box!”
Just as the older bank asrted it’s invulnerability, this bank by its architecture boasts of its imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human asrtion begins. In fact, there is no such division; the two are one and the same.
Most are like this, saying a point and if the point need extra explanation then starting a new paragraph to make a added description. Also, Raskin applies contrast between two following paragraphs to make his point clear, like in the passage paragraph three that money was once “thought of as a tangiblecommodity”, while in paragraph four that “money has largely been replaced by credit, a bookkeeping -banking matter”
