Microsoft Word Seminars on stylistics

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chapter IV 
 
Scheme of Interpretation 
 
1
. Say a few words about the author and the cultural context. 
2
. Give the factual information of the text, that is, briefly relates the plot of the 
story. 
3
. Speak on the pragmatic characteristics of the main personages. Extract 
additional implicit information from the individual speech habits of the characters 
concerning their educational qualifications, social status, age, origin (foreign or 
native), emotional state at the moment of speech and kind of general disposition 
(gay, sad, kind, cruel, restrained uncontrollable, self-confident, timid etc.), their 
property status, geographic locality etc., etc. 

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4
. Characterize the composition of the story and its architectonics 
(proportional relations of the parts of the text). Point out in what way the 
composition deviates from the traditional model: exposition; prologue; beginning 
of the plot (initial collision) development of the plot; climax; denouement; end; 
epilogue and what advantages result from it. 
5.
Comment on the category of time and locale of action. It the events in the 
story are related not in their chronological order and the locale is changed in the 
text, what retrospective analysis will you make to find the consistency of episodes, 
that is to trace the realization of the category of time and space in the text? 
6.
Comment on volume-pragmatic and context-variative segmentation of the 
text (the shape of prose; narration, description, commentary, dialogue, non-
personal (represented) speech, autodialogue, stream of consciousness, monologue.) 
7.
Comment on the means of cohesion between separate syntactical wholes. 
Is it established trough traditional lexical and grammatical signals or with the help 
of associations and logical conclusions? 
8
. Comment on the categories of wholeness in the text. What facts and 
missing links is it necessary for the reader to conjecture in retrospective analysis in 
order to establish the sequence of events and the motives of actions, which will 
secure the continuity of the text? 
How should the reader accentuate different moments in the text in order to 
establish their mutual interrelation and synthesize all separate elements of the 
literary work into one united integrated text?