Remarks Concerning the Resonant Expressivity of Verbs   Cover Image

Consideraţii privind expresivitatea sonoră a verbelor
Remarks Concerning the Resonant Expressivity of Verbs

Author(s): Maria-Crina Herțeg
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: phonetic; expressiveness; expressive procedures

Summary/Abstract: Stylistics studies the expressiveness of language and the means which writers and speakers use in oral and written communication in order to achieve this expressiveness. This key concept stylistics operates with sometimes involves deviation from standard speech. The role of expressiveness is to deepen communication without changing the message and meaning and the use of expressive means has the aim of intensifying communication. The stylistic and expressive features of a text can be traced on all the levels of language: phonetic level- which refers to the expressive value of vowels and consonants, lexical level – which refers to the prevalence of certain lexical units, morphological level – which refers to the prevalence of certain parts of speech and grammar categories, syntactical level. Texts can be marked stylistically at one of the levels mentioned above, in such circumstances in some texts the phonetic level can be marked stylistically, in some other texts the semantic level bears the mark of expressiveness, or in other circumstances all level are marked stylistically. Our paper aims at making an analysis and at the same time an inventory of expressive means and procedures which can mark the phonetic level of language.

  • Issue Year: 12/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 377-382
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian