The parentheses in English,such as that is or in other words are applied in linguistic context or discourse context.As for the Japanese parentheticals,a comparative study can be observed between English and Japanese,s...The parentheses in English,such as that is or in other words are applied in linguistic context or discourse context.As for the Japanese parentheticals,a comparative study can be observed between English and Japanese,such as in Uchida(2001).However,parentheses such as olan nu helelcehu ber,Өgere ber helebel,…..ect.in Mongolian mostly introduce us the grammatical function and do not make any further analysis or discussion regarding them.Here I make a discussion on the Mongolian parentheses from the relevance theoretic approach.展开更多
The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound hu...The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound humanity,etc.Nevertheless,so far the extensive use of parentheses and dashes in his representative work Essays of Elia has not been paid enough attention and a detailed investigation is virtually absent.This paper presents an effort to analyze Essays of Elia through probing into the parentheses and dashes as paratexts in regard to their stylistic effects from two perspectives-the linguistic perspective and the semantic perspective,in hope of expanding the scope of“paratext”.The major finding of the paper is that in Essays of Elia,parentheses and dashes as paratexts serving as stylistic markers are indispensable supplements which have special stylistic effects.展开更多
文摘The parentheses in English,such as that is or in other words are applied in linguistic context or discourse context.As for the Japanese parentheticals,a comparative study can be observed between English and Japanese,such as in Uchida(2001).However,parentheses such as olan nu helelcehu ber,Өgere ber helebel,…..ect.in Mongolian mostly introduce us the grammatical function and do not make any further analysis or discussion regarding them.Here I make a discussion on the Mongolian parentheses from the relevance theoretic approach.
文摘The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound humanity,etc.Nevertheless,so far the extensive use of parentheses and dashes in his representative work Essays of Elia has not been paid enough attention and a detailed investigation is virtually absent.This paper presents an effort to analyze Essays of Elia through probing into the parentheses and dashes as paratexts in regard to their stylistic effects from two perspectives-the linguistic perspective and the semantic perspective,in hope of expanding the scope of“paratext”.The major finding of the paper is that in Essays of Elia,parentheses and dashes as paratexts serving as stylistic markers are indispensable supplements which have special stylistic effects.
