PHONETIC ECONOMY AS A STYLISTIC DEVICE IN RAY BRADBURY’S THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Keywords:
phonetic economy, elison, speech, device, articulation, contractions, proper names.Abstract
This article investigates phonetic economy in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles through linguistic analysis. The research investigates the primary phonetic economy elements which include contractions and elision and vowel reduction and minimal phonetic forms in proper nouns. The dialogues in Bradbury's work use shortened forms like "I'm" and "don't" and "can't" and "you'll" and "I'll" to create natural speech patterns while speeding up the rhythm and producing a genuine oral effect. The Martian names Yll and Ylla and K.. exist as the most condensed phonetic elements which achieve the peak of phonetic economy. The research shows that phonetic economy stands as a fundamental literary device in the novel which makes dialogue more dynamic and creates authentic communication and faster narrative progression.
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