What is a lingua- stylistic self-characterization (speech portrait of narrator)? (Bring examples)
When we watch a movie, it’s very easy to distinguish the protagonists. But translating it into text becomes a bit of an abstract process. Characterization requires great skill from the writer. Through characterization, the author introduces the characters to the reader's imagination in which the author speaks, thinks, moves in the language of each character. In creating the character of the protagonist, his peculiarities are taken into account: a style of speech, phonetic level, intonation, lexical sets, choice of words and reaction, etc.
Example: The American wife stood at the window looking out. Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.
‘I’m going down and get that kitty,’ the American wife said.
‘I’ll do it,’ her husband offered from the bed.
‘No, I’ll get it. The poor kitty out trying to keep dry under a table.’
The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows at the foot of the bed.
‘Don’t get wet,’ he said. (Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain’ )
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