Open AccessSentence Length and Complexity in Hemingway's Short story : A Clean, Well-Lighted Place : A Stylistic study
Author(s) -
Mazin Jasim Mohammed,
Mohammed Jasim M. Hassan,
Khalid Shamkhi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
lārk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-5836
pISSN - 1999-5601
DOI - 10.31185/lark.vol1.iss10.876
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , sentence , linguistics , literature , norm (philosophy) , register (sociolinguistics) , expression (computer science) , literary language , variation (astronomy) , philosophy , art , history , computer science , epistemology , physics , astrophysics , programming language
The term style is somehow difficult to define . The difficulty arises from the fact that it is acquiring several interpretations . Such interpretations might refer to abstract notions such as " style of deviations " ; or " style is choice " or a distinct personality (the style of Shakespeare ) ; or to periods ( the baroque style ) and the like ( Galperine , 1977:11).
Carter and Nashe (1990:36) argue that style can be recognized because it stands out in one way or another from a standard . This view simply means style can be seen as deviation . However , such a view cannot be taken for granted since norms are very difficult to standardize . Wales (1990 ) [quoted in Missikova ,2003] in her famous book A Dictionary of Stylistics listed the most common characteristics of style as follows :
Style refers to the manner of expression in writing and speaking .
Style can be seen as variation in language use , whether literary or non-literary . The term register is commonly used for such variations in linguistic features found in non-literary situations ,
such as legal language , advertising , etc.
Style is seen as distinctive of register , genre or period.
Style is defined in terms of choice of items , and their distribution and
patterning .
As deviation from a norm , style is a concept that is used traditionally in literary stylistics , since literary language is more deviant than non-literary language use .
To sum up , Warner (1961:1) ; Garvin (1964:112) go on to state that in spite of the different interpretations of the term style , the simplest interpretation is that is a manner of expressing one's thoughts and feelings in words .