The Syntactic Style of Cultural Revolution Literature

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This paper investigates the language of official literature produced during the Cultural Revolution (CR), concentrating on linguo-stylistic characteristics of sentences, relating to length, rhyming, parallelism, quotation and grammaticality. By demonstrating the intended syntactic features, it aims to explore the language’s aesthetic and stylistic characteristics and functions. A comparative perspective is made of the CR literary language with that of pre-CR and post-CR literature.

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Authors/Creators:	Yang, L
Keywords:	formalist criticism, sociological criticism, linguo-stylistics, stylistic register, syntactic style, CR literature
Dates:	Published (online): January 2016 Published: January 2016
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > East Asian Studies (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2018 09:23
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2018 05:05
Status:	Published
Publisher:	British Association for Chinese Studies

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