ELTWeekly Newsletter Vol. 3 Issue#91 | June 27, 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyze the syntactic and stylistic features of Josef Essberger’s short story The Winepress. Theory followed to study the features of language in this story is the theory as propounded by Leech et al.(1981). The paper first of all gives a brief introduction to the author, a brief account of the story, and then it presents an overview of stylistics and the tools to be applied in the analysis. On the basis of the proposed theory a comprehensive analysis of the story in terms of Lexis, Grammar, Figures of Speech, Context and Cohesion is to be carried out. Finally it summarizes the analysis, discusses the limitations of the research and also scope for further research. This paper is not written with a view to depict an overall picture of the writing style of Josef Essberger as a writer, for even those text linguists as eminent as Geoffrey N. Leech and Michael H .Short (1981) maintain that it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author. The main objective of this paper is, therefore, to find out the artistic beauty of the story through the writer’s choice of language. (more…)