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标题：Psychogrammatical Utilization of the Definite Article ‘the’ in the Story ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’
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作者：Amir Reza Asiyaban ; Farzad Eskandarpour
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：320-624
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Function words, the same as, content words will have some connotative meanings based on the contexts in which they appear. This study aimed at addressing some of the connotative meanings pertinent to shades of meanings of the definite article ‘the’ in the short story ‘Lamb to the slaughter’. The results of the reflection on the use of the definite article ‘the’ illustrated that in some contexts the same as one motioned in the story where ‘the’ has been used without any prementioned entity to which it can refer, it can carry some shades of meaning beyond the context itself. Accordingly, the definite article would associate the following meanings: 1- It is separate from you. 2- It is far from you. 3- It is dependent. 4- It is a complete entity 5- it conveys the sense f focalization by the camera man.
关键词：shades of meaning;contextualization;genitive pronoun;definite article