Keywords
Emotional Discourse
Patriarchy and Feminism
Stylistic Features
Epistemic Markers
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Abstract
This study is motivated by the fact that despite the omnipresence of emotions in literary texts, elements of emotions are usually overlooked in literary analysis. Whereas the conceptual dimension of every text shares a symbiotic relationship with the emotional dimension. The study set out to: identify, analyze and explain the stylistic features and epistemic markers of emotions in Djiali’s Les Impatientes, and determine the effectiveness of the replication of the source language emotional dimensions in Les Impatientes into the target language (English). The study employed a corpus-based and an analytical research design. Data was collected qualitatively through content analysis. Thus, fourteen (14) elements relating to emotional discourse were collected in the parallel corpus and analyzed using the explicatory approach and synchronization. This involved matching the source language and target language excerpts to determine whether aspects of emotional discourse were successfully replicated from French into English. Findings reveal that patriarchy and feminism are both overwhelmingly present in Djaili’s Les Impatientes, with patriarchy having 50% and feminism 50% from the selected excerpts. Findings also reveal that emotional discourse has been presented through a plethora of stylistic features like innuendo (14.2%), irony (29%), oxymoron (7.1%), rhetorical questions (7.1%), repetition (7.1%) sarcasm (21.3%), and satire (14.2%). Moreover, the following four epistemic markers have been used to portray emotional discourse in Djaili’s Les Impatientes: discovery (21.3%), existence (29%), hearing (7.1%, and knowing (42.6%). The translator succeeded to replicate the source language emotional dimensions into the target language. Thus, success or failure to replicate emotional discourse in Djaili’s Les Impatientes hinges on the understanding of the stylistic features of the novel as well as the epistemic markers, as these elements have a bearing on the emotional charge of the text.
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