Foregrounding in Lawrence’s 'The Horse Dealer’s Daughter' through Leech’s Framework
Abstract
The study at hand deals with the linguistic stylistic analysis of D. H. Lawrence’s short story entitled The Horse Dealer’s Daughter investigating the concept of Foregrounding through the lens of Geoffrey Leech’s Model by applying the five types of linguistic deviations: lexical, grammatical, semantic, phonological, and graphological deviation or highlighting. This analysis seeks to address the following research problem:To what extent and in what linguistic and stylistic aspects does D.H. Lawrence employ foregrounding techniques in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter,' and how do these techniques contribute to the overall meaning and impact of the story?The study adopts a qualitative approach to highlight the analysis of the study that is limited to the most important actions the protagonist ‘mable’ is facing through the whole story
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