STYLISTICS AS A

SCIENCE.
BRANCHES OF
STYLISTICS.
Stylistics is a branch of
general linguistics regarded
as a language science which
deals with the results of the
act of communication.
 Fields of investigation:
1) the aesthetic function of language;
2) expressive means in language;
3) synonymous ways of rendering one and
the same idea;
4) emotional colouring of language;
5) a system of special devices called
stylistic devices;
6) the individual manner of an author in
making use of language.
2 basic objects of stylistics:
 -stylistic
devices and figures
of speech

- functional styles.
 Galperin
 a) studies the totality of special
linguistic means ( stylistic devices and
expressive means) which secure the
desirable effect of the utterance;
 b) studies certain types of texts
"discourse" which due to the choice
and arrangement of the language are
distinguished by the pragmatic aspect
of communication (functional styles).
 Branches of stylistics
 Lexical stylistics – studies functions of
direct and figurative meanings, also the
way contextual meaning of a word is
realized in the text.
 Grammatical stylistics
 Morphological s. views stylistic
potential of grammatical categories of
different parts of speech
 Syntactical s. studies syntactic,
expressive means, word order and
word combinations, different types of
sentences and types of syntactic
connections
Phonostylistics – phonetical
organization of prose and
poetic texts. Here are
included rhythm, rhythmical
structure, rhyme, alliteration,
assonance and correlation of
the sound form and meaning.
 Functional S– deals with all
subdivisions of the language
and its possible use
(newspaper, colloquial style).
 Individual style study –studies
the style of the author. It looks
for correlations between the
creative concepts of the author
and the language of his work.
M. Riffatrre, R. Jacobson,
F.Danes, I.V. Arnold.
Linguo - stylistics is the study
of literary discourse from a
linguistic orientation.
Decoding stylistics is the most recent
trend in stylistic research that
employs theoretical findings in such
areas of communication as
information theory, psychology,
statistical studies in combination
with linguistics, literary theory,
history of art, literary criticism
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