Explorations in Stylistics - Andrew Goatly
Lexico-grammar and process in Golding’s Pincher Martin
Explorations in Stylistics - Andrew Goatly
Andrew Goatly [+]
Lingnan University
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Andrew Goatly has considerable experience in teaching English language and literature in colleges and universities in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Austria, and Singapore. He is at present Professor in the English Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997, 2nd edition, 2010), Critical Reading and Writing (Routledge 2000), Washing the Brain: Metaphor and Hidden Ideology (Benjamins 2007)and Humour and Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
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In the main part of this chapter, sections 1 and 2, the author uses Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar for the textual analysis of passages and of patterns of lexical development. The grammatical patterns analysed are probabilities of occurrence of certain grammatical sub codes, applied in diff erent stages of the novel, and this kind of stylistic analysis can be thought of as interrogating the message in order to discover the code beneath.