Juncture as a Poetic Device
الباحث الأول:
Siham Mohammed Hasan Alkawwaz
المجلة:
International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
The investigation of juncture, as a poetic device, involves an area of
study that straddles the boundary between linguistics and literary
studies and in each of which juncture plays a distinct role. Juncture
serves as a suprasegmental phonemic cu…
The investigation of juncture, as a poetic device, involves an area of
study that straddles the boundary between linguistics and literary
studies and in each of which juncture plays a distinct role. Juncture
serves as a suprasegmental phonemic cue, being a means to signal the
borders of most words and groups of words in speech. In literary
language, it contributes in creating a type of ambiguity that enriches
texts with multiple meanings and thus poetic effects. While
considerable work has been done to explore the significance of
juncture in speech, very poor attention has been given to its role in
literature. This study, therefore, takes this role by probing the poetic
aspects of juncture that govern its use in literary texts. It also analyses
some texts to show its mechanism to produce poetic effects. The study
concludes that juncture serves as a device of style to create
phonological ambiguity necessary for wordplay.