In its broadest definition styleis the way in which language is used see LeechShort 1981.
What is language literary texts. Referential language communicates at only one level and tends to be informational. These activities if executed with humour can trigger a sustained interest in literature in the students. In this unit you learned how to engage students in tasks that help them notice and appreciate the special ways in which language is treated in literary texts.
One more literary works are those that have significantly complex and detailed literary devices particularly in metaphor and symbolism. Purpose of telling a story or entertaining as in a fictional novel. This is also a distinction important to those wishing to establish careers as literary authors.
These are not literature speciļ¬c since these features also appear in ordinary language use and also in nursery rhymes proverbs. Literary texts are representational rather than referential McRae 1994. Language used in literary texts is common language with a high concentration of linguistic features like metaphors similes poetic lexis unusual syntactic patterns etc.
Has been discovered that literary texts are useful materials for language teaching and learning. Literary language showing how readers are driven to construct their own network of meanings working. Literary texts teaching aids pedagogical stylistics composition writing vocabulary development.
Publishers may have an influence on the de facto canon not just in their choice of core texts and how they market them but also in relation to the availability of auxiliary texts of criticism. Students are exposed to real authentic usage of language in literary texts. 10 for a discussion of various definitions of style.
The language features employed in literary prose are written deliberately in a more stylized manner to. A text can be any example of written or spoken language from something as complex as a book or legal document to something as simple as the body of an email or. - headlines photographs human interest stories frequently colloquial or idiomatic language.