Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Hemingway in 1927. The story of Hills Like White Elephants takesplace in an unknown small railway station in northern Spain. A young couple are waiting for the ex...
E. E. Cummingswas the representative of American modern experimental poets. This paper aims at showing how Cummings uses all types of foregrounding to elevate the theme of his poem "Buffalo Bill ’s". Linguistic featu...
This paper presents the analysis of the text Arrivals,which serves as the first chapter in Rana Dasgupta's fiction Tokyo Cancelled.The analysis mainly focuses on the role of literature devices including foregrounding,...
The theory of foregrounding is a theory of crucial and critical importance in Stylistics.In stylistic analysis,foregrounding refers to the work with literary and artistic importance,especially the deviation of languag...
Language foregrounding is the artistically motivated deviation of language,with which readers'attraction is drawn to the author's attention so that the effect of literary depiction is enhanced.The present paper analyz...
The current study introduces the notion of foregrounding in stylistics and figure/ground in cognitive linguistics. By merging the two theories, the author adopts a cognitive stylistic approach to poetry interpretation...
As a central issue in stylistics, foregrounding, which can be achieved by deviation and overregularity at every linguistic level, can give readers more innovative and ingenious perspective on appreciation of text. W. ...
This thesis is concerned with the "stylistic analysis" of the sonnet "no worst, there is none". Stylistic rules are discourse bound, in the sense that the acceptability of sentences derived by the application of s...
In this paper I examine the contribution of feelings to the reader's literary understanding,focussing on aspects of response that have been studied through the use of empirical methods.I first provide a review of seve...
In Sweet and Low,it illustrates a beautiful and awaiting image with simple words and only 16 lines. The analysis of Sweet and Low from foregrounding,especially from linguistic overregularity is been concentrated on to...