Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings. For example, the vernacular, or everyday language may be used among casual friends, whereas more formal language, with respect to grammar, pronunciation or accent, and lexicon or choice of words, is often used in a cover letter and résumé and while speaking during a job interview.
Stylistic Lexicology / Stylistic Use of Literary and Conversational Words 1. Stylistic use of words which have lexico -stylistic paradigm. 2. Stylistic functions of conversational words 3. Stylistic functions of words which have no lexico -stylistic paradigm 4. Stylistic functions of phraseology
Word and its semantic structure. Stylistic and style meaning of the word. Types of stylistic meaning of the word: emotional, evaluative, expressive. 3. Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. Neutral, literary and colloquial words. 4. Words which have lexico -stylistic paradigm, and words which have no lexico -stylistic paradigm.
STYLISTIC SYNTAX OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. STYLISTIC DEVICES OF THE SYNTAX SD of the English syntax. SD based on the interaction of syntactic constructions of several contact clauses or sentences. SD based on the interaction of types and forms and connection between clauses and sentences. SD based on transposition of meaning of a syntactic structure in the given context
Stylistic Syntax of the English Language. Expressive Means of the Syntax 1 . The notion of the EM and SD on the syntactical level. Stylistically marked models of sentences as EM of the syntactical level. SD as selection and combinations of sentence models. EM based on the deliberate reduction of some elements of the sentence structure (ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentence, asyndeton); 3. EM based on the redundancy (expansion) of some elements of the sentence structure (ordinary repetition, extended repetition, catch repetition (anadiplosis), chain repetition, framing, syntactic tautology, emphatic constructions, parenthetical sentences); 4. EM based on the violation of word-order in the sentence structure (inversion, distant position of he syntactically connected units of the sentence).
Stylistic Semasiology of the English language
In the European philological tradition there still exist the division into:
Figures of substitution
Figures of quantity o verstatement understatement
Figures of integration identical different opposite
Classification of metaphor According on the pragmatic effect produced upon the adressee According to the degree of stylistic potential According to the structure dead original nominational cognitive imaginative simple prolonged
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