Document Type : Conference Paper
Abstract
The present study investigates the concept of time in Mitch Albom’s the Timekeeper from a stylistic perspective. Stylistics is the study of style which can be viewed in many ways and from different stylistic perspectives. This study is based on Leech and Short model for stylistic analysis. It aims at investigating the literary techniques used by Albom on the lexical, syntactic, cohesion and coherence, figures of speech and troops used for portraying the concept of time and its importance for humanity. Thus, this study hypothesizes that Albom uses stylistic techniques like figures of speech, tropes and lexical and grammatical categories to shed light on the importance of time. For fulfilling the hypotheses of the current study, the following procedures are followed: 1- Presenting a theoretical background of stylistics, Mitch Albom’s the Timekeeper, and the concept of time. 2- Analyzing the selected data from the novel following Leech and Short model for stylistic analysis. The study is significant since it analyzes stylistically the devices used by Albom to portray the concept of time.
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