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Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
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Semantico-syntactic Deviations in Metaphors Used by Philip Larkin

Sadia Waheed, M.Phil. in Linguistics
Mazhar Hayat, M.Phil. in Linguistics, Ph.D. Scholar
Saira Akhter, M.Phil. in Linguistics
Amara Javed, M.Phil. in Linguistics

Abstract

This research article highlights the semantic and syntactic deviations in the metaphors used by Larkin in his poetry. Larkin’s metaphors are rich in meaning and they convey implicit meanings in addition to the apparent simple thought. The purpose of this article is to study the metaphors in relation to cognitive stylistics. The prototypical concepts of old age, death and loneliness are presented deviant and in an extraordinary manner. The study of these metaphors clearly shows the method for manipulating deviant meanings from text. The implicit meanings are traced by applying the model of Short (1997). This study is mainly concerned with semantico-syntactic deviations. It manifests that deviant concepts are yoked together with the help of unconventional collocates and colligates. In spite of the analogy, the group of words used in the metaphors possesses similar cognitive value which provides justification for their grouping.

Introduction

Short (1997) in ‘Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose’ comments that literary criticism is based on an active and the most important ‘core’ and a less active ‘periphery’.

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Sadia Waheed, M.Phil. in Linguistics
Govt. College University, Faisalabad
Pakistan
sadialodhi123@hotmail.com

Mazhar Hayat, M.Phil. in Linguistics, Ph.D. Scholar
IIUI, Islamabad
Pakistan

Saira Akhter, M.Phil. in Linguistics
Govt. College University, Faisalabad
Pakistan

Amara Javed, M.Phil. in Linguistics
Govt. College University, Faisalabad
Pakistan
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