Stylistic Analysis : “a Cup of Tea” by K.Mansfield

Written by ASUMAN BIRDAL STYLISTIC abstract A transfuse OF TEA by K. Mansfield The common view that a literary schoolbook edition is comparablely to be dig better if it is studied in analog with stylistic analysis which emphasizes the crucial portion of the linguistic features of the text contributes much to the phylogenesis of literary criticism. M. A. K.H in alliday is one of the text linguists who sees grammar as a network of systems of relationships which account for all the semantically relevant choices in phrase, which is the standpoint of the stylistic analysis as well. In the light of M. A. K. Hallidays discipline, I pull up stakes try to analyse a human of literary text written by Katherina Mansfield in the format of a nearsighted story titled A CUP OF TEA and try to criticise the text objectively in relation to its grammatical (functional) features .Before this , Id deal to give a brief tuition about the content of the story. A. INFORMATION almost THE ST ORY Scanning the story first, we execute across with a rich meet named rosemary and Philip leading an untroubled, desirable lifespan and they seem to lie with each other since- we dumbfound no implication whether they love each other for bullion or not and everything goes well in their lives. rosemary spends money without getting into trouble and big(a) no reason or confession to her husband in doing this.Everyone in a society admires rosemary not perhaps for her beauty but for her remarkable features such as being interested in current movements from every aspects, seeming as an intelligent young woman, reading the new(a) books. Philip is not as bright as rosemary but he makes himself pick out as soon as he figures the story towards the end. Apart from the couple, there is a missy who meets Rosemary in a street by asking for money to bring forth a cup of afternoon tea then is picked up by her to have a cup of tea at her home and begins to be directed by her.We inf er this from the fact that whenever Rosemary wants her to enter the scene she is there but when, at the last scene, Rosemary is jealous of her, the girl is easily disappearad without giving no brand for us to follow the reason of her disappearance. And we have one more character having a part in the story the shopman. He is similarly under the effect of Rosemary we can understand this from his polite behaviours which ar made obvious in the text with circumstantial features. But he is the somebody also who utilizes by the impuissance of her.He tries to draw her attraction on the enamel encase and succeeds it he promises her to keep the box for her because he knows her and he knows that she will arrange to buy it she has the power of money and gets whatever she desires without acconting for anything to anybody. Not only we encounter with her weakness in her dialogue with the shopman but also in her being jealous of set down Smith when he utters lovely manner of speaking for t his girl and behaves as it is predicted by Philip who knows enjoin her and makes her behave as he desires taking advantage of her faulty character successfully.In that sense Philip is an intelligent man and in force(p) on Rosemary who is also plainly the symbol of possessive female by being jealous of the girl she has met in the street so she has no potency ,she is a little bit credulous. She asks directly-having no hidden meaning in her words- Am I PRETTY? , which ironically reveals her ex-behaviours to Philip scour she supposes that Philip is not aware of the truth. B. ANALYSISWhen we notion at the story from the point of transitiveness functions included in the stylistic analysis which tell us about the language and its reflection on processes ,participants ,circumstantial functions we realize that of import participant is Rosemary and most of the processes are acted by her. When we count all the sentences describing her or the ones in which she takes place we realize her dominancy at once. The other participants Id care to analyse on this text -apart from Rosemary- are the girl,Miss Smith, and Philip.Even though Philip hasnt got as many turns as Rosemary and Miss Smith, Id like to examine the processes of him in order to endanger the currents of events as a whole- he is the high-octane figure in the sequences of events in the story- in other words it is vital to exert it here to maintain the entirety of the text. To do this I will follow M. A. K. Hallidays process in which Ideational, social, Textual Functions of language are daelt with in order to support all my commentations on Katherine Mansfields work.