INTERPERSONAL FUNCTIONS

Looking at K.Mansfield?s story from the point of the language use between the participants, we come across with variability making the text closer to real, authentic usage by means of questions, answers, requests, imperatives, exclamations and so on.

To begin with turn-takings between Rosemary and Miss Smith, it is seen that there are lots of questions and answers:

?May I speak to you a moment??

?Speak to me?? (And this also presents us a part from an authentic language use by shortening the statement.It is also the indicator of bewilderment of Rosemary against the girl?s behaviour.)

?Would you let me have the price of a cup tea??

?A cup of tea ?Then have you no money at all??

?Do you like me??

And sometimes Rosemary gives answers instead of the girl. She does most of the talking:

?Of course, she will.?

?...She insisted on going...?(She says to Philip as if it was said by Miss Smith ,herself.)

There are imperatives uttered by Rosemary again ,which proves that she does and gets whatever she wants from helpless people :

?Come along.?

?Come, come upstairs.?

?Come and sit down.?

?Don?t cry.?

?Do stop crying.?

She also uses imperatives against ?Philip?:

?Be nice to her.?

?Kiss me.?

But Philip also gives commands to her:

?Explain?

?Look again, my child.?

However Miss Smith uses polite requests such as:

?May I speak to you a moment??

? Would you let me have the price of a cup of tea.?

?...so ligthtly and strangely: ?I?m very sorry, madam, but I?m going to faint.I shall go off ,madam, if I don?t have something.?? (It is not in an exact polite request form but said politely.)

?I can?t go on no longer like this. I can?t bear no more? (Totally free in revealing her ideas and feelings not by consulting to politeness.)

Exclamations are used by Rosemary sometimes to express her ideas:

?Charming!?

?How extraordinary!?

sometimes to present her while thinking to herself:

?How thoughtless I am!?

?Pretty!?

?Lovely!?(By repeating Philip?s utterances angrily.)

Sometimes to demonstrate:

?There!?

TEXTUAL FUNCTIONS

Both the narrative statements directly by the writer and the dialogues between the participants are involved in the story. Ideas of the characters and their acts are told by the writer of the text as a narrator whereas the chain of particular events ,speech acts are presented via a lot of dialogues in the text.K.Mansfield is like an observor describes the characters ,the events and gives us clues about what the characters are thinking to themselves. For instance, Rosemary is made to think and speak to herself after being jealous of the girl and we can follow her plans which is going to occur.

C.CONCLUSION

Having analysed this literary text by not commenting on it with my superficial impressions but examinig it in detail considering into the linguistic features of it, I have obtained more objective criticism. Furthermore, it has proved that our impressions supposed to be uttered intuitively and unconsciously has hidden conscious in itself and kept hidden unless it emerges by studying it with its grammatical features which helped me to analyse the short story of Katherine Mansfield more empirically. By means of this stylistic analysis , I,myself, have also seen that a literary text can be interpreted effectively,scientifically,and most correctly when its functional features are studied in detail and one can enjoy the passage even after its linguistic features are dealt with,which is supposed to make the meaning and charming beauty of the work of art loss.

Date: 2016-06-13; view: 420