内容摘要
摘要:《献给艾米莉的玫瑰》是威廉·福克纳著名的短篇小说,本文从措词、句法结构和叙述视角几个方面对小说进行了文体学解读,表现出作者在故事叙述方面的独特技巧。
Abstract: This paper gives an analysis on American novelist William Faulkner‘s short story A Rose for Emily from a stylistic perspective, focuses on the diction, syntactic structure and narrative method of the story.
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本文来自：毕业论文网 文体学解读措词句法结构叙述视角
Keywords: stylistics analysis diction syntactic structure narrative point of view
The short story A Rose for Emily is written by American novelist William Faulkner. The story focuses on Emily, ―an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it‖ (Zhang, 1998, p.617). Because of its unique Faulkner‘s style, this story has been studied by many researchers from various perspectives—symbolism, character interpretation, feminism and also stylistics, to name just a few. However, most of the stylistic researches into this novel focus on Faulkner‘s non-chronological story-telling style or the figure of speech. This paper will pay more attention on the diction, syntactic structure and narrative method of the story.
1. Diction
In the choice of words, the author employs onomatopoeic words and sensible words to give a vivid description of the certain situation in order to make it as if the readers are personally on the scene.
Onomatopoeic words imitate the real sounds, which could make readers associate the sounds with the activities of characters in the novel. In the sentence ―She