问答题
Analyze the Following Text from A Linguistic Point of View.The crisp April air whipped through the open window of the Citroen ZX as it skimmed south past the Opera House and crossed Place Vendome. In the passenger seat, Robert Langdon felt the city tear past him as he tried to clear his thoughts. His quick shower and shave had left him looking reasonably presentable but had done little to ease his anxiety. The frightening image of the curator"s body remained locked in his mind.Jacques Sauniere is dead.Langdon could not help but feel a deep sense of loss at the curator"s death. Despite Sauniere"s reputation for being reclusive, his recognition for dedication to the arts made him an easy man to revere. His books on the secret codes hidden in the paintings of Poussin and Teniers were some of Langdon"s favorite classroom texts. Tonight"s meeting had been one Langdon was very much looking forward to, and he was disappointed when the curator had not shown.Again the image of the curator"s body flashed in his mind. Jacques Sauniere did that to himself? Langdon turned and looked out the window, forcing the picture from his mind.Outside, the city was just now winding down-street vendors wheeling carts of candied amandes, waiters carrying bags of garbage to the curb, a pair of late night lovers cuddling to stay warm in a breeze scented with juniper blossom. The Citroen navigated the chaos with authority, its dissonant two-tone siren parting the traffic like a knife.
【正确答案】正确答案：The extent to which the phonological, grammatical and semantic features of the language are salient or foregrounded in some way is what seems to distinguish literary from non-literary usage.(2 points) (1)Point of view refers to any method through which person"s perspective of the story is viewed and, also, how it is expressed to the audience. A limited omniscient point of view might reveal the inner thoughts of more than one character but not all. Those other characters would be known by what anyone can observe externally, but the author does not tell you what"s in their minds. From this text, readers can know Robert Langdon"s mind or thinking, but readers do not know the other person"s minds. So this text is the limited omniscient point of view.(2 points) (2)Foregrounding refers to the part of a scene nearest to the viewer, or figuratively the most noticeable position. As a literary device, it means to put something or somebody in the most essential part of the description or narration, other than in a background position. The language in this text employs foregrounding. For example, Jacques Sauniere is dead. This sentence is a whole paragraph, making the sentence conspicuous.(2 points) (3)As for the figure of speech, this text adopts many metaphor, making a comparison between two unlike elements. This comparison is implied rather than stated. For example, the frightening image of the curator"s body remained locked in his mind, here the image is compared to something concrete in his mind.(2 points) (4)Cohesion is a concept to do with discourse or text and it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text. In this text, cohesion is achieved by employing various devices; conjunction(e. g. His quick shower and shave had left him looking reasonably presentable but had done little to ease him anxiety); reference(e. g. The frightening image of the curator"s body remained locked in his mind); substitution(e. g. Jacques Sauniere did that to himself).(2 points)