As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to de...As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to detect whether the story is both cohesive and co-herent and as the same time functions of these devices are explored. Firstly, five types of cohesive devices including reference, substitu-tion, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical ties are exploited to analyze the text. Then the coherence of the story is also analyzed. Furthermore,suggestions for writers of children's story are given according to the research of this paper.展开更多
Lennie Lighthouse is written by Paul Jennings, who is an English-born Australian childrenbook writer. His books mainly focus on short stories whichcould lead the reader into an unusual series of events that ended with...Lennie Lighthouse is written by Paul Jennings, who is an English-born Australian childrenbook writer. His books mainly focus on short stories whichcould lead the reader into an unusual series of events that ended with a twist. Now Paul Jennings has achieved a great success and has became a well-known children's book writer. In this paper, the stylistic features and the narrative structurein"Lennie Lighthouse"would be analyzed based on Labov's narrative model, especially the external evaluations and internal evaluationsin the story.Finally it intended to explore that how the children story could attract such a diverse group of readers and the structure of this legendary story would be deduced and writing stylewould be analyzed in this paper.展开更多
基金国家社科基金重大项目(16ZDA200)教育部人文社会科学青年基金项目(19YJC752020)澳大利亚在华研究基金会项目The Literary Image of Chinese Australian during the Gold Rush throughout Various Time Periods(FASIC2017)
文摘As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to detect whether the story is both cohesive and co-herent and as the same time functions of these devices are explored. Firstly, five types of cohesive devices including reference, substitu-tion, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical ties are exploited to analyze the text. Then the coherence of the story is also analyzed. Furthermore,suggestions for writers of children's story are given according to the research of this paper.
文摘Lennie Lighthouse is written by Paul Jennings, who is an English-born Australian childrenbook writer. His books mainly focus on short stories whichcould lead the reader into an unusual series of events that ended with a twist. Now Paul Jennings has achieved a great success and has became a well-known children's book writer. In this paper, the stylistic features and the narrative structurein"Lennie Lighthouse"would be analyzed based on Labov's narrative model, especially the external evaluations and internal evaluationsin the story.Finally it intended to explore that how the children story could attract such a diverse group of readers and the structure of this legendary story would be deduced and writing stylewould be analyzed in this paper.
