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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is about how some linguistic theories can be
helpful in understanding a literary work. Although a literary
criticism is still called for, the theories are able to
make the literary work be easier to comprehend. The narrative
order of A Rose for Emily - a short story written by
William Faulkner is hard to follow since it is not in time
sequence. The writer of this thesis intends to arrange them
chronologically, but first, she would like to find out the "
topics " of the literary work.
Using a discourse analysis theory, in this case the
notion of discourse topics, the content of short story is
represented into propositions. Being treated as a discourse
or language in use, aspects of context of the short story
must be considered. Thus, besides identifying the propositions,
the activated feature of context, in this case the
time aspect should also be determined.
Based on the context, the writer divides the propositions
into fragments and searches for the most important
part or the discourse topic within each fragment. By finding
out the correct topics and providing them with the setting
of the time when each event happens, it is possible for the
writer to arrange the events based on a common narrative
order.