التحليل الاسلوبي الادراكي للغيمة البيضاء للكاتبة جوي سلوتر

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This study is a cognitive stylistic analysis of Joy Slaughter’s White Cloud. This research examines the issues presented in the novella, focusing on linguistic techniques and cognitive stylistic devices. Additionally, it explores the temporal perspective and its impact on readers’ perceptions. The study aims to identify the linguistic techniques employed by Slaughter to evoke readers’ emotions and shape the mood of the novella, point out the cognitive stylistic devices and reveal their importance, show the impact of the variations in temporal perspective on reader’s comprehension of White Cloud, and finally elucidate the influence of the narrative perspective on reader’s cognitive immersion with the novella. Therefore, five hypotheses are created. First, Slaughter utilizes various linguistic techniques such as transitivity, modality and descriptive wording. Second, various stylistic devices like metaphor and personification are employed in the novella for building imagery and descriptions. Third, the use of the stylistic devices helps in illuminating the novelist’s hidden message and directs readers for supposing further events in the text. Fourth, the variations in the temporal perspective increase reader’s cognitive understanding of White Cloud. Fifth, the narrative perspective of the novella enhances reader’s engagement with the novella and deepens its understanding. A qualitative method is employed in this study and the analysis is based on the integration between Gavins’ (2007) Text World Theory and Simpson’s (2004) Schema Theory. The study concludes that several techniques are found in Slaughter’s writings and they all evoke strong emotional responses from readers towards the characters. Transitivity, modality, and descriptive wording are some of these techniques. Further, Slaughter utilizes various stylistic devices such as metaphor, irony, allusion, symbolism, and hyperbole that comprehensively make the text more interesting and fertile. Moreover, the deliberate shift in temporal perspective serves as a powerful mechanism for extending the reader’s aptitude to connect events