Settings are those for example, the nationality of the writer, the country, the year and also the religion of the writer. Settings described in this way are also:
Гј The place in which the events of a work of autobiography happen.
Гј The time in which a work of autobiography takes place.
Гј The social context in which the characters in a work of autobiography exist.
Гј The time and place (sometimes the social environment) of a personal narrative.to sum up the above said, it is essential to note that the extra-linguistic features such as : time, place, author s experience, function with the help of linguistic features.are some linguistic and extra-linguistic features analyzed in the autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.
Г? Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week s uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement (B. Franklin; p.1)
- As it was mentioned in previous chapters, one of the linguistic features is the use of the first point of view. In this example we can see the pronoun my , which proofs it. With the help of the first point of view, the reader feels close to the writer. In this case the pronoun my contributes to the intimacy between the reader and the writer.
Г? Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducting means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity my like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated. (B. Franklin p. 1)
In this sentence the author used the pronouns I and my , which, as it was mentioned in the previous example, is the linguistic feature, ie the use of the first point of view. In the first person point of view, the narrator does participate in the action of the story. When reading stories in the first person, we need to realize that what the narrator is recounting might not be the objective truth.
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