scholarly journals From Story to Script: towards a Morphology of The Peony Pavilion––a Dream/ Ghost Drama from Ming China

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
Xiaohuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Function Versus ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Functional Scheme ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion ◽  
Vladimir Propp ◽  
Sequence Of Functions

University of Otago, Donghua University This article is an attempt to analyze the dramatic structure of the Mudan ting 牡丹 亭 (Peony Pavilion) as a piece of fantasy which Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550–1616) created through the utilisation of structural devices and techniques of magic tales. The particular model adopted for the textual analysis is that formulated by Vladimir Propp in Morphology of Russian Folktale.This paper starts with a comparison of Russian magic tales Propp investigated for his morphological study and Chinese zhiguai 志怪 tales which provide the prototype for the Mudan ting with a view of justifying the application of the Proppian model. The second part of this paper is devoted to a critical review of the Proppian model and method in terms of function versus non-function, tale versus move, and character versus tale / theatrical role. Further information is also given in this part as a response to challenges and criticisms this article may incur as regards the applicability of the Proppian model in inter-cultural and inter-generic studies.Part Three is a morphological analysis of the dramatic text with a focus on the main storyline revolving around the hero and heroine. In the course of textual analysis, the particular form and sequence of functions is identified, the functional scheme of each move presented, and the distribution of dramatis personae in accordance with the sphere(s) of action of characters delineated. Finally this paper concludes with a presentation of the overall dramatic structure and strategy of this play.

scholarly journals Blossoms Perfuming the Garden: From Peony Pavilion to Don Quixote

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zhu Xuchen
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion ◽  
Similar Experience

<p>Based on the framework of language</p><p>construction and psychoanalysis, this study</p><p>analyzes love and worldly ideal, which are</p><p>presented by Tang Xianzu and Cervantes in</p><em></em><p><em>Peony Pavilion </em>and <em>Don Quixote</em>. Due to the</p><p>similar experience and life sentiment, the two</p><p>authors showed amazing consistency on creative</p><p>thinking, writing skill, creative psychology and</p><p>even marriage notion, which verified the</p><p>communicative idiomatum between eastern</p><p>and western literature in the same era</p>

scholarly journals Morphological Analysis of the Neologisms during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Katherine B. Akut
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Compound Structure ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Morphological Process ◽  
New Words ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Common ◽  
Morphological Processes

The emergence of neologisms has always been an interesting phenomenon as it demonstrates the dynamism of language. This study intends to determine the neologisms during COVID-19 Pandemic through a morphological analysis. This study argues that the neologisms that emerge during the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the morphological processes that formed the new words. It further claims that the morphemic structures of the neologisms follow the general structures of English vocabulary. This study utilizes the descriptive-qualitative design in analyzing the morphological structures of the neologisms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this study involves textual analysis to determine the morphological processes that encompass the formation of new words. The data used in analyzing the morphological structures of COVID-19-related neologisms are five (5) Internet articles that introduce the new terms created because of the corona virus outbreak. These articles were published in the months of March, April and May 2020.Findings reveal that most of the neologisms are nouns. The common morphological process involved in the formation of new words are compounding, blending and affixation. Moreover, majority of the neologisms follow the compound structure of the free and bound morphemes. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the neologisms formed during the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the morphological processes and the morphemic structures of the neologisms follow the general structures of English vocabulary specifically on the combination of free and bound morphemes.

The textual analysis of dramatic discourse revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225
Author(s):  
Allan James ◽  
Nursen Gömceli
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
Lexical Richness ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
Further Development

Abstract This article explores dimensions of dramatic structure which the literary linguistic analysis of a play text can illuminate within an integrated model of dramatic significance. The play to be examined is John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, known for its lexical richness, denseness of dramatic expression and not least the structural creativity of its Hiberno-English, all of which provide an abundant fund of textual semiotics for the present drama-specific literary linguistic analysis. The dimensions of the play investigated are (i) those of its ‘constitution’, which linguistically comprises dialogue and stage directions, and characterisation, plot and setting as traditional constituents of dramatic structure in their own right; and (ii) those of its ‘realisation’ as literary work, staging production and theatre performance and the associated addressivity of materially the same play text at each of these levels. As such, it will be shown that the employment of, and further development of, a linguistic model of social semiotics (after Halliday 1978; Fairclough 2003) enables a unified account to be given of the dramatic meanings a play text expresses at these two levels of its internal construction and its external actualisation.

scholarly journals Lakon Baratayuda Versi Klaten: Kajian Struktur Naratif

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endah Budiarti
Keyword(s):  
Structural Models ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Folk Tale ◽  
Vladimir Propp ◽  
Sequence Of Functions ◽  
Action Hero

Tulisan ini dimaksudkan untuk menemukan aliran tindakan hero dalam Lakon Baratayuda versi Klaten. Teoristruktur cerita rakyat Vladimir Propp diadaptasi dan dimodifikasi dalam tulisan ini. Teori Propp mengatakan bahwasebuah cerita rakyat memiliki struktur yang dibentuk dari fungsi-fungsi yang bergerak berurutan. Berdasarkan teoritersebut, metode analisis yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah metode struktural model Propp. Upaya untukdapat menemukan aliran tindakan sang hero pertama-tama dilacak apa saja fungsi (tindakan pelaku) yang hadirdalam LBY versi Klaten, kemudian dilacak urutan fungsi pelaku (tindakan pelaku) dalam LBY versi Klaten dan yangterakhir dilacak struktur naratif LBY versi Klaten. Ada beberapa hal yang dapat dikemukakan dari analisis terhadapLBY versi Klaten. Pertama, ditemukan empat belas fungsi (tindakam hero) yang dilacak dari aliran tindakan herodalam LBY versi Klaten. Kedua, LBY versi Klaten memuat lebih dari satu pergerakan cerita.Kata kunci: Barata yuda, Klaten, Vladimir ProppABSTRACTLakon Baratayuda versi Klaten: Study of Narative Structure. This paper is intended to find the flow of the action hero in the Lakon Baratayuda Klaten version. The theory of the structure of folk tales Vladimir Propp adapted and modified in this paper. Propp’s theory says that a folk tale has a structure formed of functions that move sequentially. With regard to the theory, the method of analysis used is the method of Propp’s structural models. To be able to find the flow of the  action hero first revealed what functions (action dramatic personae) are present, then determine the sequence of functions (action dramatic personae), and further reveals the narrative structure of the Lakon Baratayuda Klaten version. There are several things that can be raised from the analysis of Lakon Baratayuda Klaten version. The first, discovered fourteen function (action hero) is tracked from the stream acts as a hero in the Lakon Baratayuda Klaten version. Second, the Lakon Baratayuda Klaten version contains more than one main story movement.Keywords: Baratayuda, structural, Propp

Hoshi: A Japanese morphological adorner for TEI XML

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Bonnell ◽  
Mitsunori Ogihara
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Text Encoding ◽  
Text Encoding Initiative ◽  
Alignment Process ◽  
Principal Tool

Abstract Morphological adornment of text in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML can be useful for studies in textual analysis. MorphAdorner is a principal tool for providing such functionality in English texts. However, its practical use is limited when the input XML contains branching text, e.g. when &lt;choice&gt; appears, as it modifies the input document. In such cases, preprocessing is required to obtain the desired results. This article introduces a new tool Hoshi with the purpose of determining how this issue can be best handled with minimal input modification and preprocessing needed. It also investigates whether parsing software available online can be used to supply morphological information that can be encoded in an output format like MorphAdorner, and whether such a tool can be developed to adorn text in other languages. Challenges include those posed by the target language, the current software available for providing morphological analysis in it, and the schema needed for encoding the results. Moreover, technical hurdles presented by segmented and branching text can complicate the alignment process, especially when the intent is to guarantee input document integrity. Our approach for handling these is presented, and the article ends by outlining future applications of Hoshi that can help to enhance TEI scholarship that prioritizes the use of morphological word metadata.

Trevor Griffiths' ‘Absolute Beginners’: Socialist Humanism and the Television Studio

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Leah Panos
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Production Strategies ◽  
Convenient Category ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Personal Ethics ◽  
Television Studio

This article examines how conventional studio production strategies were active in the construction of political meaning in the 1974 television play ‘Absolute Beginners’, written by Trevor Griffiths. Produced for the BBC anthology series Fall of Eagles, the play dramatises Lenin's involvement with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDWP) and explores the contradictions between personal ethics and political necessity. Through close textual analysis and contextual discussion of other plays in the series, this piece demonstrates how shot patterns and spatial and performative devices in ‘Absolute Beginners’ supported the drama's socialist-humanist and feminist themes. Drawing on existing writing about the studio mode, it argues that the qualities of intimacy and presentational distance that it engendered were highly appropriate for the personal and the political dialectic in ‘Absolute Beginners’. While using authorship as a convenient category for referring to the coherence of Griffiths' thematic concerns and dramatic structure during this period, the article complicates notions of the television dramatist as author by arguing for the importance of visual style and showing how ‘ordinary’ studio form was operational in the play's political meanings.

The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ting) by Tang Xianzu

1982 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 692 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Roy ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Cyril Birch
Keyword(s):  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion

scholarly journals MUNDINGLAYA DIKUSUMAH: SATU KAJIAN MORFOLOGI ATAS CERITA PANTUN SUNDA (Mundinglaya Dikusumah: A Morphological Study in Sundanese Poem)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Asep Rahmat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Morphological Study ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Describing Functions ◽  
Vladimir Propp ◽  
Method Show

Mundinglaya Dikusumah merupakan satu cerita pantun Sunda yang cukup populer. Cerita ini merupakan salah satu jenis dari tradisi lisan Sunda. Sumber tertulis tentang cerita Mundinglaya Dikusumah yang sering dijadikan rujukan adalah publikasi C.M. Pleyte, Raden Moending Laja di Koesoema: Een Oude Soendaasche Ridderroman Met Eene Inleiding over den Toekang Pantoen (TBG 49, 1907). Artikel ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan fungsi-fungsi yang terdapat dalam Mundinglaya Dikusumah dengan cara menganalisis cerita itu secara morfologis. Metode yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah analisis morfologi yang dilakukan Vladimir Propp terhadap cerita-cerita rakyat Rusia. Dengan metode tersebut akan terlihat fungsi-fungsi apa saja yang ada dan yang tidak ada dalam cerita tersebut. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dalam cerita Mundinglaya Dikusumah terdapat 14 fungsi yang sama dengan fungsi Propp dan 17 fungsi yang terdapat dalam Propp tidak terdapat dalam cerita Mundinglaya Dikusumah.Abstract:Mundinglaya Dikusumah is one of the most popular Sundanese poem. It belongs to the Sundanese oral tradition. The written record of Mundinglaya Dikusumah has mostly been used as reference. It is C .M. Pleyte’s p ublicat ion, Ra den Moending L aja di Koesoema: Een Oude Soendaasche Ridderroman Met Eene Inleiding over den Toekang Pantoen (TBG 49, 1907). The study is aimed at describing functions in Mundinglaya Dikusumah by analyzing its story morpho- logically. The method used in  the article is morphological analysis of Russian fairtales. The method show, which kind of function not found in the story. The result of the research shows that the Mundinglaya Dikusumah story consists of 14 functions having the same function as Propp that in and 17 functions not found in Mundinglaya Dikusumah.

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