Stylistics devices - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date a. Hassan Halliday Hassan Halliday a professor of linguistics made significant contribution into stylistics devices. Through her interest in language and verbal art she researched on language and the distribution of forms of consciousness, and she managed to show how language is a social semiotic. She explored the connection between language and culture, learning and social class. She went to divide linguistics externalist and internalist the...

The study set out to identify aspects of power asymmetry observed among the discourse participants in the sample trials. It was established that power asymmetry among the participants can be attributed to two things. First, with regard to the first objective of the study which focused on syntax especially on the patterns of questioning in the direct and cross examination phases of trial, the discourse participant roles in the courtroom are pre-allocated, and, as a consequence, power is exercised...