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    The document discusses linguistic deviations in "the taximan's story" including grammatical deviations and syntactic rearrangements. [1] Grammatical deviations are seen in sentences like "Today, young people not like us when we are young" which are ungrammatical but still convey meaning. [2] Syntactic rearrangements like reordering words for emphasis are also used. [3] The story additionally uses null subjects where the subject is implied rather than stated as in "cannot wait for you to finish your meeting."

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    The document discusses linguistic deviations in "the taximan's story" including grammatical deviations and syntactic rearrangements. [1] Grammatical deviations are seen in sentences like "Today, young people not like us when we are young" which are ungrammatical but still convey meaning. [2] Syntactic rearrangements like reordering words for emphasis are also used. [3] The story additionally uses null subjects where the subject is implied rather than stated as in "cannot wait for you to finish your meeting."

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    Keven Ong Opamin November 7, 2019

    BA ELS, 2nd Year


    Language of Literary

    Assignment: Write a critical essay (stance) on the taximan’s story. What are
    the linguistic deviations and how justified are these deviations to emphasize the
    message of the story?

    The story contains a linguistic deviation specifically grammatical deviation or also known as
    ‘syntactic deviations’. Accordingly, there are two types of syntactic deviation, first is bad or
    incorrect grammar and the second one is syntactic rearrangement or hyperbaton. Majority of the
    sentences found in the story contains the former type of syntactic deviation or simply
    ungrammatical. Examples of which are the following:
    (1) Today, young people not like us when we are young.
    (2) Today, young people they are very trouble to their parents.
    (3) My father cane me, I was big enough to be married, and still, got caning.
    Although these sentences are grammatically incorrect, still, these sentences were able to exhibit
    the intention of the speaker and captured the emotions needed to convey. The sentence (1) shows
    how the taximan compared their generation to the new ones and how different they are back then.
    Sentence (2) shows how the younger generations, referred by the taximan, act or how much they
    give trouble to their parents. Though, again, the sentence is ungrammatical but as we read it, it’s
    very realistic and accurate, it speaks out something significant and relevant views to the
    generations we have nowadays. The sentence (3) shows what the taximan experienced from his
    father. This sentence indicates how much discipline his parents, particularly his father, gave him
    which reflects to his overall disposition.
    The story also has a syntactic rearrangement or hyperbaton. According to Nordquist (2018),
    hyperbaton is a kind of figurative language that disrupts and inverts customary word orders to
    produce a distinctive effect. Example of this is the sentence, “on one day alone I make nearly one
    hundred and fifty dollars!” The syntactic rearrangement indicates how much emphasis is given to
    the prepositional phrase on one day alone.
    Aside from the ungrammatical sentences, I also have noticed that there is a Null subject in
    sentences while the taximan is having his conversation with her Madam.

    Examples of Null Subject in the story

    (1) Madam, cannot wait for you to finish your meeting.


    (2) Must go off, please to excuse me.
    (3) Madam. Must go off to Hotel Elroy–there plenty people to pick up.

    According to Nordquist (2019), “A null subject is the absence (or apparent absence) of a subject
    in a sentence. In most cases, such truncated sentences have an implied or suppressed subject that
    can be determined from the context.” In other words, null subject simply means subject dropping.
    The highlighted phrases indicates the existence of a null subject. The first highlighted phrase (1)
    “cannot wait for you to finish your meeting” has a null subject, and that null subject is the actor or
    the taximan, which simply means that he can no longer wait for her Madam. The same goes with
    the second and the third highlighted phrase. Both contains a phrasal verb, the former indicates that
    the taximan needs to leave and go somewhere else for a particular purpose. The latter explicitly
    indicates a specific place to where the taximan is going.

    References:
    Nordquist, R. (2018). Hyperbaton (Figure of Speech). Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.
    com/hyperbaton-figure-of-speech-1690940

    Nordquist, R. (2019). What does “Null Subject” mean? Retrieved fromhttps://www.thoughtco.


    com/null-subject-subject-drop-1691353

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