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1、ComparativeCommentaryonPoem“SearchmyTongue”andText“BeingBilingual”.Thetwotexts,thepoem“SearchforMyTongue”writtenbySujataBhattandthetext“BeingBilingual”bothdiscusstheissueofbilingualismandhowitaffectsthesocialatmosphereandselfexperience.However,theyshowadifferentpointofviewtotheis

2、sue.Assuch,eventhoughbothtextarerelatedtothesametopic,theiruseofgenre,formandformalityiscontrastinglydifferent.Text1(SearchforMyTongue”)utilizesapoetrygenre,freeverse,informalmelancholictoneandemotivelanguagetoconveythemessageofambivalentfeelingsonbilingualism.Ontheotherhand,Text

3、2“BeingBilingual”usesanessayform,prosegenre,formaltonetoexpresstothereaderthatthetextisexplanatoryandinformative.Theauthor’sperspectiveforText1isvividlytransmittedbytheuseofthelanguages.Itiswrittenasapersonalviewinfirstpersonandpresenttensetotellthereaderstheproblemsheissuffering

4、from.FromText1,thedescriptionof“mothertonguewouldrot”profoundlyexpressedhisperplexemotiononfacingthedilemmaoflosinghismotherlanguageyetitisimpossibletoforgetit.Thisistoldbyhispoemthathismothertonguesubconsciouslypopsoutinhisdream,whichisafactorthatnoonecancontrol.Incontrast,theau

5、thor’sperspectiveforText2isexplicitlyconveyedatthebeginningofthetexttorevealhisview.Itiswrittenmostlyinthirdpersonandoccasionallyinfirstpersontoenhancetheinformativepurposetotheaudience.TheuseofpresenttensealsosuccessfullyrisesoftheproblemofBilingualismintheprocessinourenvironmen

6、t.Inthepassagetheauthorintendedtonotifythereaderthatpeoplebeingbilingualshouldbecategorizedintoseveralgroupsonthebasisoftheirproficiencyofbothlanguages.Thisisexplicitlytoldinthetext.Also,thewriterusedexamplesfromhislifeinordertomakehismessagemorereliable.ThelanguageofText1isfullo

7、fveryemotivelanguageinconjunctionwithvividimagery.Heusesextendedmetaphorsthroughoutthewholetexttocontinuallyexpresshisubiquitouseffectonmotherlanguage.Phrasessuchas“growsback…astumpofashoot”,“blossomsoutofmymouth”arevividextendedmetaphorsusedinthetexttocomparemotherlanguagetoagro

8、wingshoot.Theplantimagerysymbolizeslifea