linguistic feature in fairy tale

Once upon a time..these four little words reverberates in the souls of the children and flies their little mind into the imaginative sphere of magic, fairies, demons, witches, talking wolf who is always ready to capture sm in all and pretty children in its enthralling and mephistophelean jaws. These words squeeze the heart of the children while fetching them into the world of fantasy. These words ar the starting localize of the fairy tales that children love to hear and enjoys every moment of it. They have a universal appeal and are timeless, though depicting the culture of the time in which they are written.The fairy tales are unique in themselves and their uniqueness lies in the distinctive and thematic appeal with which they carry themselves. Despite their typical approach on that point is an ample scope for creativity and inculcate within children the values that are landed from times to generation in their innocent world. Several types of narrative styles and techniques puddle the part of fairy tails, yet all are distinct especially in the relationship which is developed between generator and audience. The genre lies in command the children and adults alike putting them into the textual journey before it starts. The basic characteristic of the fairy tale lies in the approach which the writers take in exploiting the narrative and linguistic features to the full capacity.The customal folk tales which utilize to start to oral traditions used to depend on their exceptional characteristics like prosodic phonology, intonation, the use of pauses, rhythm, the different qualities of voice, as well as on paralinguistic codes, among which gestures, mimicry, eye contact etc. Though written narratives cannot imply all these yet have developed their own independent style of narration. (Bruti, Which narrative features, 1999, para.17)The narrative form is encoded in a linguistic form by the use of the initial/final fixed phrases. (Bruti, Which narrative feat ures, 1999, para.16). The linguistic forms further depend in the genre and on the readers for which they are written. The main role of the linguistic form is to provide information with evidences in form of tales. One of the fixed phrases lies in the tradition of the opening and resolution formula, a typical example of which is Once upon a time and lived happily ever after.These expressions refer the closeness between writer and children. It creates enthusiasm among the readers and suspends their disbelief in world of fantasy in which the writer is taking them, for e.g. talking of animals, princess turning into frog unless Prince comes to kiss her and bring her to original human form etc.Besides these ritual formulas, the linguistic features include the maximum use of repetitions for making expressions and for the events to unfold. The repetition helps in the lento understanding of the texts, which reflects the mark of the oral tradition. Other basic linguistic features are the r edundant structures and they likewise put up similarity to the oral narratives. Ellipsis and co-ordination is the characteristic feature of redundant structure, which evolves due to the fact that writers write the stories from the children tumble and organizes the information in such a manner that they brings out the actual knowledge that should be imbibed to the children. The otherwise beauty of the fairly tale is the absence of detailed description. The physical description of characters is given much swelling then going deep into their nature and inner attributes. This is done to give semantic clarity and uniqueness. And in some(prenominal) fairy tales characters never change physically for e.g. If they are young, they will ever remain young.The agent can give in many cases some spatial or temporal information, for e.g. The case of hyperbolic distances like, he rode on a horse for thousands miles. Writers also have full scope for temporal deviations that room they can t emporarily deviate from the original path to put the excitement and enthusiasm among the readers with the help of creating the meeting of visualizations.Another feature that gives punch to the story is the impulse of the protagonists that is directly heard, and which derives him or her to comment and unfold the events taking place to create the influence on the readers. This feature is called as a Conative function, which according to dictionary mean mental process or behavior directed towards action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving.The tenses are used frequently in the narration. The Tenses may be either commutative or narrative A commutative attitude comes with the involvement of the speaker, and his addressees. Narrative verb brings about detached attitude. Tenses are also classified into two categories, the retrospective, which depicts the olden events, and the perspective, which takes the readers to the future. Then the verbs are also used to d escribe the background actions.In fairy tales, that exclusively unavoidably to be notified is about the content or we call the theme which is ordinary i.e. it shows the frankness of the life and reality of the world but its beauty lies in the context of fiction and fantasy where it is fitted which makes it more interesting and ardent for the readers. It implies on the ordinary daily objects too like a mirror in which we look at ourselves. It shows the beauty of the princess but this mirror is used in a Snow White as a magic mirror having powers to show the witch her ugliness and update her about the Snow white.In many fairy tales like in the Danish fantastic tales for children, which as told in , Den fantastiske fortlling i dansk borne literatur 1967 2003 , there is an extensive use of figurative speech, specially natural metaphors and playing with the popular phrases and clichs. There is also distinguish between two traditions in fantastic tales, one is content oriented epic t radition and the other is language oriented experimental tradition. The first way is more communicative and the second trend included language that is easily grasped and makes an exclusive sense to the readers. There are also linguistic games and digressions, meta-linguistic elements, which more focus on the communicative style but not the content. (Centre for Childrens Literature, Denmark).Fairy tales are part of the childrens lives, and their world. They inter in the children the sense of belongingness to the Supernatural elements and rejuvenate their souls and give them encouragement. Though the prince, snow white, little red ridding hood, gruelling princess are all fictions but are part of the childrens life so the language of these fairy tales is the language of the children. References1. Bruti Silvia, November 1999. Approaching Writing Skills through Fairy Tales, The Internet, TESL Journal Vol. V, No. 11, (Online). Available(11 March 2007) 2. Centre for Childrens Literature , Denmark. oculus for bornelitteratur. (Online). Available http//www.cfb.dk/site.aspx?p=766 (11 March 2007) 3. Godard Barbara, 1979. Crawfords Fairy Tales, SCL/ELC Volume 4.1 1979 (Online). Available http//www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol4_1/filename=godard.htmhttp//ww (11 March 2007) 4. Hbert Louis, 2006. 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