Stylistic analysis

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1. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS STYLISTIC ANALYSIS Stylistic SPEC. 20 Prepared by: Aira E. Mandreza Pamela C. Gipit Rozel Grafil BSE-IV (3:30-4:30) RGCC

2. “not only [is style] not a science but [it is] a version of fiction – a narrative form – tied to the literary trope of synecdoche in which one feature is an ingredient in all the others .” - Berel Lang Stylistic analysis – definition Stylistic analysis in linguistics refers to the identification of patterns of usage in speech and writing. Stylistic analysis in literary studies is usually made for the purpose of commenting on quality and meaning in a text.

3. By Emily Dickinson I DIED FOR BEAUTY BUT WAS SCARCE

4. I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? 'For beauty,' I replied. 'And I for truth,--the two are one; We brethren are,' he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names. I died for beauty but was scarce

5. PHONOLOGICAL LEVEL GRAMMATICAL LEVEL SEMANTIC LEVEL PRAGMATIC LEVEL GRAPHOLOGICAL LEVEL DISCOURSE LEVEL LEXICAL LEVEL STYLISTICAL ANALYSIS

6.  A given feature that is limited to a particular segment but may also be longer Sound symbolism Assimilation Allusion Repetition of Sound Alliteration/ Assonance )  phonological units of the language, such as vowels and consonants, are of very short duration. SEGMENTAL FEATURE SUPRA-SEGMENTAL FEATURE 2 types PHONOLOGICAL LEVEL (organization of sounds in a language) Stress Rhythm intonation

7. GRAMMATICAL LEVEL ( the form, positioning and grouping of the elements that go to make up sentences) 2 THINGS DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATIVE if it makes a descriptively adequate grammar available for each language If it has an interaction between participants putting forward the feelings, attitudes etc. of a speaker or writer to be perceived by a hearer or reader

8. SEMANTIC LEVEL (meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure) Denotation & connotation Ambiguity Synonyms, antonyms & hyponyms Important areas of semantic :

9. PRAGMATIC LEVEL (  is concerned with characterizing the behavior of language users [ as performance]) DEIXIS PRESUPPOSITION IMPLICATURE SPEECH ACT

10. DEIXIS is expressed in English by way of  personal pronouns ,  demonstratives , and  tense . IMPLICATURE is an accounts for what the speaker can imply, suggest or mean, as distinct from what the speaker literally say. ( G rice, 1975) PRESUPPOSITION is what the speaker or the writer assumes that the receiver of the message already know. SPEECH ACT is an  utterance  defined in terms of a  speaker's  intention and the effect it has on a listener.

11. GRAPHOLOGICAL LEVEL (It describes patterns of writing that distinguish the writer's style, for example capitalization, punctuation, spacing and so on.) The graphology of each language has its own units, in English we have: Paragraph orthographic sentence sub – sentence orthographic word, and letters

12. DISCOURSE LEVEL ( Natural or responsible connection in context of text) in context may consist of only one or two words as in  stop  or  no smoking . can also be used to refer to particular  contexts  of language use, and in this sense it becomes similar to concepts like  genre  or text type. For example, we can conceptualize political discourse (the sort of language used in political contexts) or media discourse (language used in the media)

13. Lexical level ( of or relating to words or the vocabulary of a language as distinguished from its grammar and construction.) Slang, archaism, Neologism and Jargons Word inclination Lexical Idioms Kinds of noun Static verb Word types Pun words Nonce words Deviant words Abstract noun Concrete noun