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Name: Desideratus Kayihura

Institutional Affiliation: CIAT

Course:ENG100-MV-31

Instructor: Carolyn. T

Date:9/02/2020

In writing Neuromancer, Gibson borrows his writing style from another novel which utilizes conversational and street-level writing styles which are filled with slang, nonstandard dialects and cussing words which is similar in the novel Neuromancer. This is well illustrated in some of the paragraphs which include "I wanna buzz," he said to the blue artifice of the sky. "I truly do wanna get high, you know? Trick pancreas, plugs in my liver; little bags of s*** melting, f*** it all. I wanna buzz." (10.119) (Punday, 2000). the quizzes section of the novel is dedicated to slag.

Additionally, there is the usage of the punk tone throughout the novel as the novel was written in the early 80s when punk was common. There is the element of sentence fluency in the story as there is a flow and rhythm especially with the use of slag phrases and sentences. The length of the sentences is good although there are some paragraphs with very long sentences making it hard to comprehend anything (Punday, 2000). Nonliterary sources of language are also used in the novel which is the main source of language. The novel was written for the “first SF generation” who grew up in a “truly science-fictional world” hence the choice of words. Gibson as the author also utilizes new vocabulary in expressing his ideas. Notably, there is the usage of neologisms in the novel where new words are given strange meanings (Schmeink, 2015).

References

Punday, D. (2000). The narrative construction of cyberspace: Reading Neuromancer, reading cyberspace debates. College English, 63(2), 194-213.

Schmeink, L. (2015). 13. CYBERPUNK AND DYSTOPIA: WILLIAM GIBSON, NEUROMANCER (1984).