Prof. Rod Ellis talks about language exploits writers do in order to achieve itery effects in their manuscripts.

• Code Effects – normal lang. used and manipulated in order to achieve literary effects -> 1) Marked and Unmarked, 2) Structural Ambiguity, 3) Grammatical Elision
• Grammatical Patterning -exploitation of the units of grammar (e.g, subject, verb, objects, direct objects, etc) – thepattterns are usually seamless and repetitve
• Deviations in grammatical structure: 1) deviations from the standard code (morphological, syntactical, borrowing of grammatical rules from other dialects or languages

Just finished giving out our own interpretation of Hemmingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain’ and Causley’s ‘What Has Happened to Lulu’. As usual, I still think that the Prof. should be a little bit more open to students’ interpretation of literary works. Forcing us to agree on one interpretation is uncool in various ways.

p.s/ I totally need to look up the biography of Prof. Ellis now. He seems so fond of the Africans and African English. It´s totally cute, in a little uncute sort of way.

p.p.s/ Will not be blogging about EDUC 316. Too lazy at the moment.

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