AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ANTITHESIS USED IN “MY LIFE” BY BILL CLINTON
This thesis was conducted to examine and describe the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of antithesis used in “My Life” by Bill Clinton. In order to obtain these aims, a quantitative method, a qualitative method and a contrastive analysis method are taken into account. The study foc...
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Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng
2025
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| Résumé: | This thesis was conducted to examine and describe the syntactic,
semantic and pragmatic features of antithesis used in “My Life” by Bill
Clinton. In order to obtain these aims, a quantitative method, a qualitative
method and a contrastive analysis method are taken into account.
The study focused on discovering the common distinctive linguistic
characteristics of antithesis in “My Life” to figure out the effects of antithesis
in catching readers’ attention. The data of the study were collected from 600
examples in “My Life” by Bill Clinton which were used to make the
contrastive analysis to support the objectives of the study.
Finding revealed the predominance of antithesis used in “My Life”.
Antithesis in terms of syntax was considered. Especially, noun phrases
expressed contrasting ideas occurred with high frequency to strike the
important information, to attract readers’ attention and to give powerful
utterances. In terms of semantic fields, antithesis was used to show the
politics and economics way during his presidency. Furthermore, antithesis
was exploited effectively in showing many pragmatic features such as
complimenting, showing humanity, making emotional effects, etc. to reflect
the writer’s idea and to emphasize the effectiveness of antithesis in
persuading and attracting the readers to the context of the story. Through an
investigation into linguistic features of antithesis used by Bill Clinton in “ My
Life”, the researcher hopes to bring out some certain benefits to the readers,
the language teachers and learners.
Basing on the findings and results, the study put forwards some
implications in the English language teaching and learning in the hope that they
could be beneficial for not only English teachers but also for learners of English. |
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