A linguistic Perspective of English Eulogies: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The present paper aims at shedding a spotlight on a significant issue in the western life, namely eulogies which are  important practices in the western community employed in a funeral of a deceased / living person. However, writing eulogy requires a specific stylishness inscription in order to serve specific functions and purposes so as to mitigate or soften the gloomy effects of the event on his/her family or friends. Metonymy, mitigation of apology and hypophora are regarded as linguistic devices  to convey the profound meaning of the eulogist in an elegant way. Exploring these devices , identifying their role in eulogies and analyzing them linguistically are the principal objectives here.

  The conclusions of the paper support the idea that   the most prominent syntactic patterns of wh-questions are wh words (especially what?)   Hypophoric question is used to get the audience's attention and make them curious. It may heighten the effect of the audience in such endearment.

     Nevertheless, mitigation of apology with its expression categories happens to some extent  in this study , on the other side , metonymy  that strengthens the social communication and adds a kind of delicacy and floridness to speech , performs less emanate in writing eulogies  as a linguistic device .  In a nut shell,  hypophoric  open questions of (wh-) are outstanding forms of questions in eulogies that they allocate  superior standing .