Literature and the teaching of stylistics: An investigation into the pragmatics of community formation in the educational context of Namibia.

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dc.contributor.authorKrishnamurthy, Sarala
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-01T18:35:35Z
dc.date.available2013-08-01T18:35:35Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe 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, colligationen_US
dc.identifier.citationKrishnamurthy, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1539-8072
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10628/388
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDavid Publishingen_US
dc.subjectStylistics - Study and teaching - Namibiaen_US
dc.subjectPedagogical stylistics - Namibiaen_US
dc.subjectPedagogy - Namibiaen_US
dc.titleLiterature and the teaching of stylistics: An investigation into the pragmatics of community formation in the educational context of Namibia.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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