Open AccessLeech and Short’s Checklist of Lexical Features in Style in Fiction: A Theoretical Analysis
Author(s) -
Suzan Makhloof
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal online of humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-5155
DOI - 10.24113/ijohmn.v6i4.189
Subject(s) - leech , checklist , style (visual arts) , stylistics , linguistics , psychology , computer science , literature , art , cognitive psychology , world wide web , philosophy
This paper aims at investigating Leech and Short's Checklist of Lexical Features in their book Style in Fiction (2007) in order to help students of Stylistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels to deeply understand the application of such features. Leech and Short put these lexical features in the form of questions that should be answered by students who are conducting a stylistic lexical analysis of any literary work. In this paper, the researcher will mainly highlight how such features can operate in literary texts by providing explanation to these questions and answer them with examples.