PRINTED NOISE by George F.Will

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PRINTED NOISEby George F.Will

• Presented by
• Lyubov Borodina
• Winter 2004

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Discourse Analysis
• Pragmatic aspects
• Syntax
• Stylistic devices
• Difficulties for foreign learners
• Conclusion

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PRINTED NOISE VERBAL LITTER COMMERCIAL RATTLE
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

• Setting and Scene
• Participants
• Ends
• Act Sequence
• Key
• Instrumentalities
• Norms
• Genre

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• PRAGMATIC
• ASPECTS
• A gentleman requested a ham and cheese sandwich
  that the Burger King calls a Yumbo. The girl
  taking orders was bewildered.

Oh, she eventually exclaimed, you mean a
Yumbo. Gentleman The ham and cheese.
Yes. Girl, nettled Its called a Yumbo. Now,
do you want a Yumbo or not? Gentleman, teeth
clenched Yes, thank you, the ham and
cheese. Girl Look, Ive got to have an order
here. Youre holding up the line. You want a
Yumbo, dont you? You want a Yumbo!
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SYNTAX

• Contractions
• Its called dont Peanut Butter N
• Chocolate Surf N Turf.
• Collocations
• Settle for ask for (v-prep)
• lonely heroism (adj-noun)
• path of virtue (noun-prep-noun).
• Lexicalized Phrases
• Pre-sentence introducers
• Unfortunately to be fair you mean.
• Two-word verbs to walk out, to put away.
• Phrasal modals Ive got to have I am about to
  I am going to.

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Epithets
• asphyxiatingly cute names gentle reader
• Metaphors
• You are holding up the line.
• the incessant roar of commerce
• Metonomy
• Dew Drop Inns serving salads.
• Who would notice if a menu proclaimed
• creamy steaks and sizzling coleslaw?

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Oxymoron
• Printed noise
• impeccable prejudices
• to be relentlessly fun.
• Clichés
• Wing-footed Achilles
• Hyperbole
• My favorite delight bears
• an unutterable name

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Onomatopoeia
• Sizzling steaks
• Alliteration
• Strawberry Rhubarb Sherbet
• Read the written roar without really
• noticing it
• A strange spelling for a strange place
• Dew Drop Inns
• Rhyming
• Surf N Turf
• A strange place /ei/

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Rhetorical questions
• but isnt coleslaw just coleslaw?
• Who would notice if a menu
• proclaimed creamy steaks and
• sizzling coleslaw?
• Gentle reader, can you imagine any
• of these magnificent persons asking
• a teenage girl for a Yumbo?

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Repetition
• The word Yumbo is used 7 times
• in nine lines of the text.
• Reiteration
• At one point in the evolution of
• American taste, restaurants that
• were relentlessly fun, fun, fun were
• built to look like lemons or bananas.

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Enumeration
• Flaky crust golden croquettes
• grilled-in-butter Frankforts (sic)
• liver with smothered onions
• (smothered by onions) PUN
• Periphrasis
• (or Circumlocution)
• But the mature nation has put away
• such childish things in favor of
• menus that are fun, fun, fun.
• routed by fire

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Simile
• I am told that in Los Angeles there was
• the Toed Inn, a strange spelling for
• a strange place shaped like a giant toad.
• Customers entered through the mouth
• like flies being swallowed.
• Allusion
• The list includes another don who,
• although devoutly Tory, voted Liberal
• during Gladstones day because the
• duties of prime minister kept Gladstone
• too busy to declaim on Holy Scripture.

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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Emotional Climax
• my short list of civilizations friends

That list includes the Cambridge don who would
not appear outdoors without a top hat, not even
when routed by fire at 3 A.M., and who refused to
read another line of Tennyson after he saw the
poet put water in fine port. The list includes
another don who, although devoutly Tory, voted
Liberal during Gladstones day because the duties
of prime minister kept Gladstone too busy to
declaim on Holy Scripture. And high on the list
is the grammarian whose last words were I am
about or I am going to die either expression
is correct.
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STYLISTIC DEVICES

• Irony
• Many hamburgers are made from
• portions of the cow that the cow
• had no reason to boast about.
• So sellers invent distracting names
• to give hamburgers cachet.
• Hence Whoppers and
• Heroburgers.

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DIFFICULTIES

• Singular or Plural?
• The girl taking orders was bewildered.
• ?????!!!!!
• Undiagrammables
• I am about to or I am going to die
• either expression is correct.
• Or uttering Fishmagig or
• Egg McMuffin or Fribble (thats
• a milk shake, sort of)?

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CONCLUSION
Abandon hope all who enter The domain of English
English?
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QUESTIONS?COMMENTS?SUGGESTIONS?THANK YOU