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Stylistics
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Stylistics is a branch that stems from linguistics.
Applies the theory and methodology of modern linguistics to the study of style.
It is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use and the ways in which language is used.
styl-istics
style
linguisitcs
Time & Place
- Elizabethan style
- legal document
- MLA, APA, etc.
Style in Literature
An author's distinctive language habits, or the set of individual characteristics of language use.
Ex.: Shakespeare vs. Dr. Seuss
How Style is Determined
- Characteristics of the user of language
- age, sex, education, socio-regional or ethnic background.
Genres
- Achieving a desired effect
- news reports
- advertisements
- public speeches
- scientific treatises
- legal documents
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Medium of Communication
Characteristics of the use of language in a given situation:
- Spoken English
- written English
- e-discourse
Social Groups
- standard vs. non-standard language
Regions
Ex.:
- "What's up?" vs "How are you?"
Stylistics and its Influence on the Elements of Language
Spoken
Ex.:
- British English
- American English
- Scottish English
- relationship between speaker and listener (degree of intimacy)
- medium of communication (speech or writing)
- setting (private or public)
- purpose for which language is used (to inform, persuade)
Attitudes
- Phonetic
- Lexical
- Syntactic
Contractions
Literary Stylistics
- formal and informal language
Spoken
- Intensifying words
- Interjections
- Vulgarisms
- Fill-up words
Written
- Bookish, higher level words
Spoken
- Ellipsis
- Unfinished sentences
- Repetition of subject
- Emotive syntactic structures
Written
- Complicated sentence units with many connectors
- Little or no use of contracted forms
General Stylistics
Other types
Focuses primarily on the unique aspects of literary works
- Colloquial
- Slang
- Technical
- Poem
- Novel
- Prose
- Drama
Stylistics
J. Nicole Diaz Ortiz
INGL 4205 L91
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