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Marissa U. Mozo BSED-ENGLISH III

Synthesis #2
Topics: Types of Stylistics and Some Features of Linguistic Stylistics
"Stylistic is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is
assigned to language", (Simpson 2004). A current definition of style and stylistic is that
STRUCTURES, SEQUENCES, AND PATTERNS which extend or may extend, beyond
the boundaries of individual sentences define style. And that the study of them is
stylistics. Analyzing a text stylistically is unlike doing a 'literary' analysis, as it needs to
be much more objective and rooted in fact. The main aim of a stylistics analysis is to
explain how the literary structure of a text creates the feelings and responses that we
get when we read it.
The variety in stylistics is due to the main influences of linguistics & literary.
Therefore, stylistics is concerned with the examination of grammar, lexis, semantics, as
well as phonological properties and discursive devices. It might seem that the same
issues are investigated by sociolinguistics, and indeed that is the case, however
sociolinguistics analyses the above-mentioned issues seen as defendant on the social
class, gender, age, etc. while stylistics is more interested in the significance of function
that the style fulfills. Linguistic stylistics, the purest form of stylistics in that its
practitioners attempt to derive from the study of style and language variation. Literary
stylistics: established methods of close reading or practical criticism of texts, the
procedures of literary stylistics remain traditional in character in spite of development in
literary theory (post - structuralism) which challenge assumptions about the role of
language in depicting literary realities.
It is obvious that while there are different approaches or types of stylistic
analysis, there are several overlaps between many and the dividing line between some
is rather thin. Accordingly, it may not be satisfactory or convenient for a stylisticians to
be rigid on a particular type to employ. Indeed, stylistics being a multidisciplinary
discipline often adopts an eclectic orientation. Thus, in the analysis of a particular text, a
stylistician may employ more than one tool or approach depending on the data that is
evident in the text, the analyst’s resourcefulness in his or her range of reference for the
identification of evidence and interpretation of such evidence.