CANENCIA, CONETH C.

CRITICAL THINKING

Literary Criticism

According to Abdulmughni, Literary

criticism goes directly to its text evaluation
subjectively and is impressionistically
independent from the linguistic form of
the text. Literary Criticism involves the
reading, interpretation, and commentary
of a specific texts which have been
designates as literature. Literary Criticism
involves the reading, interpretation, and
commentary of a specific texts which have
been designates as literature.

Stylistics Discourse

Stylistics is the study and interpretation of According to Johnsonn Anthony,

texts of all types of spoken language with discourse is an actual instances of
regard to their linguistic and tonal style. communication in the medium of
Style is the particular variety of language language. In a nutshell, Discourse is the
used by different individuals in different study of language in use. In linguistic
situations or settings. It is also the study of perspective, Discourse is composed of a
textual meaning and ways in which aspects wide range of disciplines, such as
of texts like words, sentences, and images Stylistics, Pragmatics, Conversational
are arranging and how they affect meaning. analysis, and Speech act theory.

Linguistics

Halliday and Webster defined linguistic as the

scientific study of human language as a system of
human communication. It encompasses different
areas of investigation such as phonetic
(articulation and transmission of speech sound) ,
phonology(system and patterns of sound
language) , morphology(word formations) ,
syntax(sentence structure) , and
semantics(meaning.