The Ugly Duckling

Book review in Stylistics

Introduction:
Modern Stylistics according to the well-known linguist Jean Jacques Lecercle stylistics
is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to language.
The reason why language is so important to stylisticians is because the various forms,
patterns and levels that constitute linguistic structure are an important index of the
function of the text. The texts functional significance as discourse acts in turn as a
gateway to its interpretation. While linguistic features do not of themselves constitute a
texts meaning, an account of linguistic features nonetheless serves to ground a stylistic
interpretation and to help explain why, for the analyst, certain types of meaning are
possible. The preferred object of study in stylistics is literature, whether that is
institutionally sanctioned Literature as high art or more popular noncanonical forms
of writing.
The Ugly Duckling
Author/ Retold by: Ofelia E. Conception
Illustrated by: Almira Danganan
Cover Design by: Jay Javier R. Cahilig
Stylistics and Levels of Language used in the story The Ugly Duckling.Language
in its broadest conceptualization is not a disorganized mass of sounds and symbols,
but is instead an intricate web of levels, layers and links. Thus, any utterance or piece
of text is organized through several distinct levels of language. Lets try the following
sentence that I lift from the story The Ugly Duckling:

(1) You must remember that character is better

than ones physical appearance,

In terms of graphology the sentence is written in Roman alphabet and in bold

Tahoma font size 18. We can see also the quotation marks and comma to give an
emphasis that this line is spoken by the character. We can see also the presence of
apostrophe. The letter starts in big letter and ends in small letter. The phonological
contribution or the way words are pronounced they are all voiced sound and the
repetition of (er) sound that can be found in the word remember, character, and better.
The sentence is also contains words that are made up from smaller constituents that we
known as morphemes. The sentence composes of 12 morphemes and 1 bound
morpheme. The way words combine with other words to form phrases and sentences
which we called syntax. The sentence 1 simple sentence, 1 subject and 1 predicate, 6
phrases compose of auxiliary verb noun phrase, verb phrase, adjectival phrase, verb
phrase, adverbial phrase and noun phrase. In terms of lexicology the sentence compose
of 12 morphemes, one bound morphemes which is inflectional morphemes, simple
sentence, 1 subject and 1 predicate, auxiliary verb and compose of 6 phrases. Semantic
analysis is concerned with meanings and will be interested, amongst other things, in
those elements of language which give a sentence a truth value. Lexical item character
(figure or a sign use in writing) commits the speaker to the fact that a certain type of
entity is responsible for the action that carried out. The meaning of character in the
story is the attitude. The demonstrative that express physical orientation of a language
by pointing to where the speaker is situated relative to other entities specified in the
sentence. The implication of character is pragmatic.
Sentence Styles of The Ugly Duckling Grammarians are divided about its
importance with some arguing that it is really only an extension of the clause and others
that it comprises a genuine unit with its own elements of structure.

(2) One day, Ugly Duckling made a bold

decision. He went away. He did not look
back. He left behind his painful
memories. He did it to spare his mother

from more troubles. In the days that

followed it rained so hard. He got cold
and hungry until one mid-afternoon, he
passed out.
Most of the sentences in this short passage are made up of a single independent
clause. This narrative context from The Ugly Duckling their sense of speed and urgency
helps deliver a melodramatic feelings as the narrators narrates the scene were Ugly
Duckling went away.
Sound Style and Onomatopoeia the principal focus of attention across this strand
has been on the stylistic significance of patterns of sound. The sound system of language
offers numerous resources for linguistic creativity in style, with metrical and rhythmic
structure on the one hand, and phonetic and phonological patterning on the other. The
story Ugly Duckling focuses on the lexical onomatopoeia.

From each egg came out a cute duckling that

lifted its head and cried, quack, quack!
The role that lexical onomatopoeia plays in the stylistic texture of a story makes for an
important area of study. The narrator used quack! quack! instead the direct word which
is the sound of a duck. The Quack! Quack! sounds match up the sound with a
nonlinguistic correlate in the real world. Lexical onomatopoeia draws upon recognized
words in the language system. The text signals us to pronounce the sound of a duck.
Narrative Stylistics Propps morphology in what became an influential study in
structuralist narratology . Propps interest is principally exploiting out of corpus of 115
actual stories a kind of blueprint for the fairy tale as a whole.
Narrative events in The Ugly Duckling

1. Absentation

The large egg broke and Ugly Duckling is

born. He was tease by his brothers ugly!

2. Interdection

Ugly!
Mother duck had assured Ugly Duckling
that she would love him no matter how he

3. Violation of interdiction

looks.
Ugly duckling went away from his home he
passed out because of hunger. The farmer

4. Trickery

found ugly duckling and bring home.

The farmers wife keep him warm and feed

5. Complicity
6. Villainy

him
Ugly Duckling thought everything was fine
Ugly Duckling heard that the farmers wife
want to cook him. Ugly duckling decided to
flee. The woman command her puppy to

7. Mediation
8. First function of hero

catch the Ugly Duckling

Ugly Duckling escape from that incident
From that escape he found a wild geese
and the geese are friendly to him. He heard
a gunshot and the geese fell down one by
one. They were shot by the hunters and

9. Liquidation

ugly duckling hides.

Time pass by ugly duckling turned into a

10. Return

beautiful swan.
The three birds welcome the new comer
and ugly duckling returned to his family.

Propps model is not to suggest that all narratives are the same, but rather explains in
part why all narratives are different.
Style as a Choice much of our everyday experience is shaped and defined by
actions and events, thoughts and perceptions, and it is an important function of the
system of language that it is able to account for these various goings on in the world.
Material processes, are simply processes of doing. Associated with material processes
are two inherent participant roles which are the Actor, an obligatory role in the process,
and a Goal, a role which may or may not be involved in the process .

(1) He
Actor

was awakened
Process

by the sound of guns

Goal

Mental processes constitute the second key process of the transitivity system and are
essentially processes of sensing. The roles of Sensor and Phenomenon relate exclusively
to mental processes. This distinction is necessary because the entity sensed in a mental
process is not directly affected by the process, and this makes it of a somewhat different
order to the role of Goal in a material process.
(1) Ugly Duckling made a bold decision.
Sensor

Process

(cognition)

Phenomenon

(2) He
was terrified
when he saw a plenty of hunters.
Sensor
Process
Phenomenon
(3) Their mother would often scold his brothers.
Sensor
Process
Phenomenon

(perception)
(reaction)

This process which to some extent sits at the interface between material and mental
processes, a process which represents both the activities of sensing and doing.
Conclusion:
The Ugly Duckling this story tells us about the wrongful discrimination and
maybe some are unintentional. Discrimination can affect feelings of hostility, as well as
beliefs in the inferior of moral and skills of that person. This story must be share to kids
because they can get a moral lesson from it.