Literature and the teaching of stylistics: An investigation into the pragmatics of community formation in the educational context of Namibia.
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2012
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David Publishing
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The author’s paper is an attempt to investigate the success of the pedagogy of stylistics and pedagogical stylistics in
the Namibian context. As an applied linguistics course, stylistics is eminently suitable for study and analysis of
literature, because it clearly explicates literary effects through linguistic analysis. Many scholars have illustrated the
use of stylistics analysis for the purposes of studying literature and teaching it, which is, pedagogical stylistics.
However, this paper combines both the study of Stylistics as a discipline, which is the pedagogy of Stylistics, and the use of stylistics for teaching literature in general and poetry in particular. Namibia adopted English as its official language 22 years ago. Since then, both teachers and students have been struggling with the analysis of poetry. This study is an empirical one using qualitative methods in the author’s research to determine the impact of the study of Stylistics on the understanding and teaching of literature in Namibia. The author uses traditional British poetry from the 16th century up to the 20th century alongside postcolonial poetry to assess the importance of culture in
understanding poetry and examine the advantage of using stylistics to teach the poems that the author selects.
Keywords: pedagogy, pedagogical stylistics, foregrounding, parallelism, deviation, collocation, denotation, connotation, colligation
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Stylistics - Study and teaching - Namibia, Pedagogical stylistics - Namibia, Pedagogy - Namibia
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Krishnamurthy, S. (2012). Literature and the teaching of stylistics: An investigation into the pragmatics of community formation in the educational context of Namibia.Sino-US English Teaching, 9(8), 1353-1365.