THE NATURE AND GOALS OF STYLISTICS

Goals of Stylistics:

One of the goals of stylistics is to establish discourse peculiarities meaning we could easily
identify the difference between two texts by studying the uniqueness that depict the discourse of
a writer, speaker, period, people or genre. And in order to achieve it, we should look and analyze
at many features of a text like its syntactic features and many more. In addition, the main
concern of stylistics is to make the readers enable to understand and comprehend the authors
motives or intention in the manner of spreading the information towards its targets, by studying
and analyzing the style, grammar, lexis, semantics, as phonological properties and discursive
devices that was been used to a certain text. Stylistics is also concerned with the study of
language habits of the particular author and its writing patterns or in short it helps us to know and
define how an author exerts some techniques in his use of language, and it helps us to appreciate
more the said text.

Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style in texts, especially,
but not exclusively, in literary works. Also called literary linguistics, stylistics focuses on the
figures, tropes, and other rhetorical devices used to provide variety and distinctness to someone's
writing.

The goals of stylistics are: To establish discourse peculiarities, to induce appreciation of

discourses, to ascertain linguistic habits, to make critical judgements. According to Crystal and
Davy, the aim of stylistics is to analyze language habits with the main purpose of identifying,
from the general mass of linguistic features common to English as used on every conceivable
occasion, those features which are restricted to certain kinds of social context; to explain, where
possible, why such features have been used, as opposed to other alternatives; and to classify
these features into categories based upon a view of their function in the social context.

Nature of Stylistics:

The nature of stylistics is that it always focuses on the language use in a particular text, literary
or non- literary texts. Stylistics looks at style in such dimension as style as choice, style as the
man, style as deviation, style as conformity, style as period or time, and style as situation for us
to attain better understanding of the text by studying those forms of language that has been used
in a text.

Stylistics is the systematic scientific study of the language of literature. It is a

branch of applied linguistics. It is applied to the study of language in literary and nonliterary
texts. The basic framework of stylistics is borrowed from linguistics. As
linguistics studies the relationship between the sound and meaning, Stylistics deals with
the relationship between the language of literature and the meaning of literature. Style
and theme are connected in literature. Stylistic analysis focuses on the thematic aspects of
literature by analyzing its language. Stylistics is objective in the analysis of literature as it
studies the literary text from the linguistic point of view. It depends more on the linguistic
evidence in the text for its interpretations of literature.

Stylistics enables understanding of literature comprehensively. Literature is

basically a special use of language. Stylistic analysis of literature should enhance our
appreciation and enjoyment of literature. Stylistics studies some special features of
literature and tries to show their poetic significance. Thus, Stylistics depends on
systematic observation, classification and description of the language of literature. Such
is the nature of Stylistics.

Stylistics is the study of linguistic forms or words that used in a certain text and document. It
deals with studying different styles that exist in a given document. Stylistics are required to use
traditional levels of linguistic description such as sounds, forms, structure and meaning then
followed by the consistent appearance of certain structures, items and elements in a particular
text. By studying the language stylistics, concerned with the multiplicities of language and the
examination of some formal linguistic features which characterize them. Stylistics is essential
since it enables us to understand and comprehend straightaway the text or utterances that help us
to enjoy more the text and its meaning behind. And also, style is the central of stylistic which it
refers to the choice of words and expressions in a given text or document by a certain person to
give a specific purpose.