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Seminar 1. The Subject and The Main Objectives of Stylistics

Stylistics is a linguistic discipline that studies how language is used to communicate thoughts, feelings, and achieve pragmatic goals in different contexts. It examines the expressive and aesthetic functions provided by language. There are several types of stylistics, including general stylistics which studies non-dialectal language varieties, literary stylistics which analyzes literary texts, and applied stylistics which analyzes distinctive language varieties. Stylistics is also related to other linguistic fields like phonetics, lexicology, and grammar, giving rise to interdisciplinary areas like stylistic phonetics and lexicology. The major types of stylistics are linguostylistics, communicative stylistics, coding stylistics, and contrastive stylistics.

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Seminar 1. The Subject and The Main Objectives of Stylistics

Stylistics is a linguistic discipline that studies how language is used to communicate thoughts, feelings, and achieve pragmatic goals in different contexts. It examines the expressive and aesthetic functions provided by language. There are several types of stylistics, including general stylistics which studies non-dialectal language varieties, literary stylistics which analyzes literary texts, and applied stylistics which analyzes distinctive language varieties. Stylistics is also related to other linguistic fields like phonetics, lexicology, and grammar, giving rise to interdisciplinary areas like stylistic phonetics and lexicology. The major types of stylistics are linguostylistics, communicative stylistics, coding stylistics, and contrastive stylistics.

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Seminar 1.

The Subject and the Main


Objectives of Stylistics

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Stylistics, its subject and tasks
• Stylistics is a linguistic discipline which studies the means of realization
of general language function - communiсative and cognitive,
and complimentary - emotive (emotional, expressive), poetic, aesthetic, phatic
(contact-establishing) which provide the effectiveness of the speech activity (O.
Morokhovsky).

• Stylistics is a linguistic science which investigates communicative and


nominative resources of the language system and principles of selection and
usage of language means for transmitting thoughts and feelings with the aim of
achieving definite pragmatic results in various communicative conditions (O.
Morokhovsky).
Types of stylistics
• David Crystal subdivides stylistics into general, literary, applied,
stylostatistics (or stylometry) and phonostylistics.
• General stylistics deals with the whole range of non-dialectal varieties encountered within a
language.

• Literary stylistic deals with various characteristics of literature as a genre and of the "style" of
individual authors.

• Applied stylistics is often used for the study of contextually distinctive varieties of language,
especially with reference to the style of literary and non-literary texts.

• Stylostatistics is a field which usually studies the statistical structure of literary texts, often using
computers.

• The study of the expressive or aesthetic function of sound is called phonostylistics


Linguostylistics, communicative (decoding) stylistics, coding
(literary) stylistics, and contrastive stylistics
• Most linguists define such major types of stylistics as linguostylistics,
communicative (decoding) stylistics, coding (literary) stylistics, and
contrastive stylistics.

• Linguostylistics is a science of functional styles and expressive potential of a


language.

• Communicative stylistics describes expressive peculiarities of certain


messages (texts).

• Coding stylistics deals with individual styles of authors.

• Contrastive stylistics investigates stylistic systems of two or more languages in


comparison.
Relations to nearby disciplines
• Phonetics studies sounds, • Stylistics as a branch of linguistics is related
articulation, rhythmics and intonation. to other branches of linguistics. Thus,
Stylistics concentrates on expressive sound stylistics can be studied in connection
combinations, intonational and rhythmic with Phonetics, Lexicology, Grammar,
patterns. Semasiology, etc.

• Lexicology describes words, their origin, • As a result of this connection there


development, semantic and structural appeared such interdisciplinary sciences
features. Stylistics also deals with words, as stylistic phonetics, stylistic
but only those which are expressive in lexicology, stylistic morphology, stylistic
language or in speech. syntax, stylistic semasiology and others.

• Grammar describes regularities of


building words, word-combinations,
sentences and texts. Stylistics restricts itself
to those grammar regularities, which make
language units expressive.
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