To choose Stylistics would never be a good ideal for me, a non native speaker of English, actually I didn’t want it at first. But since all the other modules were full, I had no other options.

Today I marked the end of this module with an exam. Not bad, I would say. Looking back, I’m so happy about what I have gained from it: for the first time, I understand language can be manipulated by people’s thought, which is similar with the meaning of a semi funny ‘maxim’ in the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland trying to tell-words can mean whatever you want they to mean.

I clearly remembered last year when I went to London for the first time, I wanted to visit Royal Observatory Greenwich but it’s really a shame that I didn’t know how to call it correctly. When I popped out of the tube, I asked a person by saying ‘could you tell me the way to a building used for watching stars!’ OMG, I was shocked by my creativity and eye popping talent on paraphrasing. To my surprise, he understood me very well. During my visit in the observatory, again I was looking for the ‘prime meridian line’. I asked the staff ‘do you know how I can get to the zero degree line’. Without any doubt, he precisely pointed out the direction. The same stories occur nearly every day in my life. I speak the English according to my on way, which is stemmed from my thought and my thought is well bred by the Chinese culture and the people around me. Such fact is set, and no one including myself can change it. But I really wish that I could gradually understand the British culture, not now but ten years from now.  I think Stylistics may give me the key of stripping out the language per se and allowing me to know the information around me better.