Labelled IC Analysis
Immediate Constituent analysis analyses each utterance into the smallest meaningful units possible. In this model, we begin by cutting the sentence into two natural divisions, and each is again cut in...
Intonation
Intonation is a feature of pronunciation and is common to all languages. Other features of pronunciation include stress, rhythm, connected speech and accent. As with these other features, intonation i...
The Speech Mechanism
The speech mechanism involves a complex interplay of various anatomical structures and physiological processes. It can be broadly divided into three main stages:The initiation of speech
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Universal Grammar
Universal Grammar Theory states that all children are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop, and understand language. While different languages may have different kinds of grammar, humans ha...
Why Transformational Generative Grammar?
In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky claims that one of the main reasons for preferring a transformational grammar to a phrase structure grammar is that the former is, in a certain sense, simpler than the...
Literary Theory and Its Discontents
John R Searle's essay Literary Theory and Its Discontents, published in New Literary History in 1994, critically examines contemporary literary theory, mainly focusing on the nature of textual meaning...
Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology.A morpheme is a short segment of language that...
Immediate Constituent Analysis
The advent of generative grammar with the publication of Chomsky's monograph Syntactic Structures in 1957 was a scientific revolution. This revolution was directed almost exclusively against the taxon...
New Criticism
New Criticism is a formalist approach to literary analysis that emerged in the early to mid-20th century, primarily in the United States and Britain. This movement emphasised the close reading of text...
Structuralism and the Qualities of Literature
Jonathan Culler's Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature explores the qualities of literature through the lens of structuralism. He defines structuralism as a th...