English and applied linguistics

AbstractPashto unergatives, like other Pashto constructions, are characterized by splitergativity with reference to tense; thus the subject nominal shows the nominative Case in the present and the future tenses, and the accusative Case in the past tense which requires the assignment of the two Cases by two different functional heads. Following the minimalist idea of agreement, we propose, for Pashto unergative constructions, that nominative Case to subject nominals is assigned as a result of co-features agreement between the functional head T and the subject nominals, while accusative Case is assigned as a result of [straight phi]-features agreement with the functional head Voice; as υ in the past tense Pashto constructions is defective in the Chomskian (2001) sense. The overall conclusion for Case assignment in Pashto unergative constructions is that the minimalist idea of agreement between a nominal and a functional head as responsible for structural Case assignment is equally app...

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This course covers the body of contemporary poetry, its techniques, thematic concerns, and theoretical viewpoints.  By focusing on salient aspects of contemporary poetics this course aims to accomplish among
students a habit of alternative interpretations of contemporary intercontinental cultural and political ethos under transition. Because literary modernism brushes shoulders with colonial, postcolonial, transnational, and cosmopolitan discourses therefore this course aims to identify an emergent, contemporaneous and eclectic poetic aesthetics. Ezra Pound’s call to Make it New remains a trusted creed of
experimentation which lately has found its global adherents from Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, Ireland, and in other regions.

AbstractThis paper focuses on the importance of schema and context in the interpretation of literary texts and its impact on reader and character identity. The understanding of literary texts is aided and enhanced when a reader is able to create a text world in their mind. A reader's comprehension of a text is partly dependent on their background knowledge, which forms their already existing schema. The reader's existing schema may be supported, challenged, or disrupted in a literary text, which may lead to the creation of new schema and a new reader identity. The newly created schema that might be similar to or different from the reader's existing schema makes a text world for them, helping them in textual comprehension and an analysis of their self. This paper examines the first three chapters from Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in the light of these notions. Carroll has been able to create a non-sense text world by manipulating the semantic ...

IntroductionThe stylistic analysis of a literary text involves a study of the linguistic elements that lend the text its literary quality. The features studied in the traditional stylistic analysis are syntactic, semantic, and lexical choices, foregrounding, morphology, phonology, and graphology. These features are analysed to strengthen both the linguistic and literary understanding of the texts. The point is made clear by Burton '...stylistic analysis is not just a question of discussing 'effects' in language and text, but a powerful method for understanding the ways in which all sorts of 'realities' as constructed through language ( 1996:230).Halliday (1985) gave a new direction to textual analysis in his systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Halliday looks at reality in terms of processes; i.e. events happening: "Our most powerful impression of experience is that it consists of 'goings-on' .... All these goings-on are sorted out in the gra...

Conservation analysis has become the focus of investigative interest in recent years among discourse analysts. There is shift towards the investigation of characters in literature through their conversation seen as speech acts. The main goal of this paper is to analyse the use of the locutionary and illocutionary meanings in an extract from Ibsen's A Doll's House in order to investigate its impact on the characters' actions and reactions. An examination has been made of the interplay between the direct and indirect speech acts which steer the plot to its inevitable conclusion. Using these speech acts as tool an analysis has been made of the imperative final conversation between Nora and Helmer, which not only forces Helmer to reconsider his attitude but also changes the course of literature written about women in the 19 th century.

This paper studies Oscar Wilde's fairy tales to examine the manner in which he has created the special genre of the fairy tales, focusing particularly on Wilde's grammatical and syntactic choices that have helped to build up the unique Faerie Realm notion of time and space in his stories. Four tales, two each from his two different collections of fairy tales, have been analysed. At the end of the paper, any deviations from the Faerie Realm norms of operation of time and space are discussed.