For breakfast

Saving

You were probably

And which

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

THIS IS JUST TO SA Y

This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me, they were delicious so sweet and so cold.

Graphical stylistics

Vroom vroom, brrrrm brr

- lexical = recognised words in the language system

thud, crack, slurp, buzz

- direct / genuine -noise-imitating words

buzz, roar, bang, hiss, sizzle, twitter, swish, burble, splash, quack-quack

- indirect = deliberate repetition of sounds

And the s ilken s ad un cer tain ru s tling of each p ur ple c ur tain

Thrilled me, filled me with fanta s tic terror s never felt before… ( E. A. Poe)

Ос інній день, ос інній день, ос інній!

О с иній день, ос иній день, о с иній!

Ос анна ос ені, ос ум! Ос анна!

Невже це ос інь, ос інь. О! - та сама.

Ос танні ай с три горілиць зайшли с я болем.

Ген килим витканий із птиць летить над полем. (Л. Костенко)

Шевченко Т.Г. «Великий льох» Крав! Крав! Крав! Крав Богдан крам. Та повіз у Київ, Та продав злодіям Той крам, що накрав.

V. Rich Kr-rr, Kr - rr, Kr - rr! Bohdan cribbed crocks And carted to Kyiv, And sold to crooks The cricks he cribbed.

stylistic effects and functions of Phonological SD:

- to make utterances expressive and melodic

- to make texts easy to memorize

- to produce the effect of euphony or harmonious sounding

- to carry a definite aesthetic function

- to foreground different 'sounds effects'

- to demonstrate the acoustic picture of reality

III. Sound symbolism

separate sounds may awake certain ideas, feelings, images, etc.

The valley... and the green chestnut...

Are mo ck e dd ry li k e the parche d be d of a broo k. S. Spender

poetry - music: harmony, euphony, rhythm.

A. Pope: “ The sound must seem an echo of sense ”.

Is motivated by associations

П. Вяземский - любовь, друг, дружба, телятина

Phonetic associations - through analogy

bl = disgust = bloody

blamed, blessed, blowed, blooming

Every blessed fool was present.

Alfred Doolittle (Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw):

"I can't carry the girl through the streets like a blooming monkey, can I?"

The 'phonaesthetic fallacy’

Tone - attitude ( ironic, serious, threatening, light-hearted, pessimistic etc.)

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold ( W.C. Williams)

graphic EM = typographic techniques: type spelling, punctuation, text segmentation:

- italics, bold type

- capitalization, multiplication

- hyphenation/scanning, spacing out, underlining

She was simply beautiful. (italics)

I'll NEVER see him again. (capitalization)

"Appeeeee Noooooyeeeeeerrr!" (multiplication)

" His wife," I said. "W-I-F-E. (hyphenation)

"Im-pos-sible!". (scanning)

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