Comparative stylistics(theoretical bases of formation branches)

COMPARATIVE STYLISTICS(theoretical bases of formation branches)
Outline

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  Fundamental of stylistics
  
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  The need of for stylistics
  
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  The subject of stylistics
  
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  Types and kinds of stylistics
  

What is stylistics?

The word “stylistics” was firstly attested in Oxford English Dictionary (1882) in the meaning “the science of literary style, the study of stylistic features”. Stylistics began to flourish in the XXth century.
What is stylistics?
The term "stylistics" originated from the Greek “stylos” and Latin “stulys”, meaning a pointed stick sharp at one end and flat on the other, used for waxing plates.
Stylisitcs
Stylistics is the study of style in spoken and written text.
Stylistics is a functional-communicative linguistic discipline, that studies the language in action and is aimed at answering the question how the units and categories of the given language are used for solving particular communicative tasks in different spheres and situations of communication (presentation of emotions, delivering information etc.) (Воронцова 2008: 15)
2 Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the principles and effect of choice and usage of different language elements for rendering thought and emotion under different conditions of communicationn
The scope of stylistics

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  individual style of a writer.
  
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  the aesthetic function of language;
  
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  expressive means in language
  
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  synonymous ways of rendering one and the same idea
  
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  emotional coloring in language;
  
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  stylistic devices
  
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  functional styles
  
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  the interrelation between language and thought
  

2. The object and subject-matter of stylistics

The object of stylistics as a linguistic discipline is a natural language.
The subject matter of stylistics
Lavels of language

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  Phonetics, phonology - all sounds, system sounds
  
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  Morphology ---forms and words
  
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  Syntax --- clauses and sentences
  
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  Semantics --- meaning of various kinds
  
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  Pragmatics ---- language use
  

Stylistics

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  Stylistics phonetics
  
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  Stylistics morphology
  
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  Stylistics lexicology
  
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  Stylistics syntax
  

Stylistics arises from the assumption that one and the same idea can be rendered differently due to the conditions of communication.

Stylistics is a functional-communicative linguistic discipline, that studies the language in action and is aimed at answering the question how the units and categories of the given language are used for solving particular communicative tasks in different spheres and situations of communication (presentation of emotions, delivering information etc.) 
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The object of stylistics as a linguistic discipline is a natural language.
The method of semantico-stylistic analysis (stylistic analysis) aims at defining the correlation between language means employed for expressive conveyance of intellectual, emotional or aesthetic content of speech (or text) and the content of information.
Literary stylistics deals with
expressive means and stylistic devices
characteristic for a definite work of art, man of
letters, literary movement, trend or epoch, and
factors influencing the expressiveness of
language.
Suggestions
Stylistic devices and Expressive Means
A stylistic device (SD) is a conscious and intentional
intensification of some typical structural and/or
semantic property of a language unit (neutral or
expressive) promoted to a generalized status and
thus becoming a generative model.
Expressive means of a language are those phonetic,
morphological, word-building, lexical, phraseological
and syntactical forms which exist in language-as-a
system for the purpose of logical and/or emotional
intensification of the utterance. (I. Galperin )