Owls in Harry Potter: a Functional Stylistic Study in Children's Literature

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.185How to use a DOI?

Keywords

functional stylistics; Harry Potter; transitivity processes; children’s literature; image of owls

Abstract

Harry Potter was supposed to be a series of children's literature whose author J.K. Rowling narrated a year's experience and personalities of the characters in ever-changing circumstances. As an encyclopedia consisting of world experience, the novel included a wide range of human activities of most transitivity types. This paper was trying to carry out a functional stylistic study on the Owls in Harry Potter with the aim of discovering their characteristics based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenxiao Zhao
AU  - Yong Wang
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Owls in Harry Potter: a Functional Stylistic Study in Children's Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 817
EP  - 822
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.185
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