Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAO DEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur

SOME COMMON WAYS OF INTERPRETING (LITERARY TEXTS) IN STYLISTICS

1. Systematic Grammar in Literary Analysis (Halliday, 1970 in Carter, 1991).
2. Meaning Beyond The Sentence..
THE REPORT PROPER:
3. Pedagogical Stylistics
Carter (in Weber, 1996) bats for a more extensive and integrated study of language and
literature which are better given as pre-literary, linguistic activities.
3.1
Predicting how the narrative will develop after omitting the title,
or after reading the first paragraph. This can be done by paired group.
Lyric poems or texts which evoke descriptive states do not benefit from this
activity.
Texts with a strong plot component do
Even the best narrative could make students read back and project forward.
3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

Use of cloze procedure

Focus on individual words/sequence of words, rather than on stretches of texts.
Do some lexical prediction during the act of reading/ after a story is read.
Show careful/close reading.
Do reasonable and supportable predictions to be alerted to the over-all pattern of
the story.
Summarizing strategies
Limit the summary, from 25-40 words to: (a) re-structure, delete, re-shape their
word to meet the word limit, (b) focus on structure and shape of the narrative.
Compare and criticize alternative summaries.
Forum: Debating opposing viewpoints
Mobilize discussion and debate.
Do small-group activity.
Provide counter-examples from other groups to listen.
Use their prior knowledge and the text in question.
Guided re-writing
Recognize the broader discourse patterns of texts and styles appropriate to them.
Re-write stretches of discourse to change its communicative value.
Rewrite a set of instructions, as a description, or turning a lecture transcript into
academic discourse.
Specify clearly information about audiences/purpose.
Rewrite one style into another to explore connections between styles and meaning,
particularly juxtaposing literary and non-literary texts.
Focus on varied ways in instructing information for readers in different texts.

Prepared and discussed by Mr. Angelito T. Pera and Ms. Gena F. Mandigal for English 28(Introduction to
Stylistics) dated October 14, 2016.

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAO DEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur

Infer more on semantic overlaps, degrees of information supplied to a reader, even

the omission of certain expected propositions assigned thematic significance.

Prepared and discussed by Mr. Angelito T. Pera and Ms. Gena F. Mandigal for English 28(Introduction to
Stylistics) dated October 14, 2016.