A Stylistic Analysis of Lexicon in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles مقالة

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States’ colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. Bradbury’s use of language is mostly picturesque and sensory. The present paper applies a text-oriented analysis of stylistic elements that construct meaning in the text and evoke the novel’s themes, using the analytic model developed by Leech and Short (2007). The study’s focus is on the lexical category—general lexicon, nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs—of chapters that are stylistically representative of Bradbury’s descriptive and metaphorically-rich style.

A Stylistic Analysis of Lexicon in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Seyyed Rahim Moosavinia', Elham Shishebor2 1•2Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Abstract Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States' colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. 1. Introduction Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans and is analogous to the United States' colonial and immigrant. Lexical categories are used to find out how choice of words involves various types of meaning by providing a description of vocabulary choice, and examinations of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. This study's focus is on the lexical category-general lexicon, nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs-of chapters that are stylistically representative of Bradbury's descriptive and metaphorically-rich style. This study's focus is on the lexical category-general lexicon, nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs-of chapters that are stylistically representative of Bradbury's descriptive and metaphorically-rich style. The present study will focus on the lexical categories of three episodes of The Martian Chronicles which are stylistically representative of Bradbury's descriptive and metaphorically-rich style: "February 1999: Ylla," "June 2001: And the Moon Be Still as Bright" -the novel's "philosophical core" -and "October 2026: The Million-Year Picnic" (Cokinos 140). 5. Conclusion The present paper's analysis of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles was based on the model presented by Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short in their book Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose.