EXPERIENCE OF STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF «A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME» BY STEVEN HAWKING (“A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME”, 1988)
- Authors: Safonova M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State University
- Issue: Vol 20, No 5 (2014)
- Pages: 150-154
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.ssau.ru/hpp/article/view/3934
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2014-20-5-150-154
- ID: 3934
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Abstract
The article contains description and results of applying stylistic stratification method to Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time”. Three strata differing in content and form are singled out in the text: scientific stratum, emotional-autobiographic one and general-philosophic one. The author views lexical, syntactic and punctuation peculiarities of the text.
About the authors
M. A. Safonova
Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: morenovsv@ssau.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1825-0097
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