SENTENCE LENGTH AND COMPLEXITY IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S SHORT STORY "OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE": A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS FOR TEACHERS OF LITERATURE

Abstract

Stylistics is a widely used branch of linguistics in analysing literary works. It targets to identify the usages and meanings of literary texts and often attempts to discover the formal properties to show their significance in the interpretation and appreciation of such texts. The current study stylistically investigates Hemingway's "Old Man at the Bridge"with the aim of examining sentence length and sentences complexity. It ultimately aims to show the way the integration of linguistics within any literary text can be manipulated as a tool to reveal the message that may underlie texts.For analysing sentence length and complexity, Halliday's(1985) model has been used. The study has arrived at the fact that the variation in the length and complexity of sentences lead to elucidate the central ideas hidden in the story.