Old House, Linguistics, and the Relevance of Literature in Singapore : The Stylistic Analysis of One Poem

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• This article seeks to demonstrate how a language-focused approach to examining a poem, based on a socially relevant linguistic model, can reveal the social and cultural relevance of literature in a school curriculum. Through a stylistic analysis, based on Systemic Functional Grammar, of Old House at Ang Siang Hill, a poem by one of Singapore's foremost writers, it examines how language patterns and their secondary patterning encode important socio-historical information and thematic issues of relevance to National Education, a key concern of Singapore schools. Thus, it reveals and suggests how literature can be used to meet this concern, as well as another key concern, the stimulation of critical thinking, while simultaneously enhancing awareness of the power of language in the construction of meaning. In so doing, it suggests how literature should have a central place in the school curriculum.

著者

• Lin Benedict

  名古屋商科大学外国語学部

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