‘N Ou liedjie op ‘n nuwe wysie ‐ ‘n ander blik op “Ballade van die Grysland”

Bibliographic Data

ID20156462
AuthorsP D van der Westhuizen (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume3
Issue1
Pages21-32
Publication date1987-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
PublisherUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564718708529809
OpenAlexW2020087504
LanguageEN
References cited8

“Ballade van die Grysland” by D.J. Opperman tells the story of the downfall of a man (man) in a big city. From the beginning he has almost no resistance against Fate that controls his life in this unnatural environment. In this essay some aspects of the deep grammar of the “Scale and Category” model of Systemic Grammar are applied to the poem illustrating this very fact. The clauses that constitute the poem are analysed in terms of the transitivity choices, especially with regard to process types and participant types. In the process it is indicated how the environment in which he finds himself progressively changes into a nightmare world in which he is no longer an active participant, but in which he is merely carried along by events

Art · Combinatorics · Grammar · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Theology · Transitive relation · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy

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