about stylistics

2. stylistics

3. stylistics
• Stylistics is the science which
explores how readers interact
with the language of (mainly
literary) texts in order to explain
how we understand, and are
affected by text when we read
them

4.  Stylistics Is the scientific study of style,
which can be viewed in several ways.
 More technically, stylistics is the study of
the linguistic features of literary text
phonological, lexical, syntactical which
directly affects the meaning of an
utterance.
 The variety in stylistics is due to the main
influence of linguistics & literary.

5. What is the style in the context of
stylistics
• Style is primarily a quality of writing
• Today the word style has a very broad
meaning. We speak of style only in literature
but also in architecture, painting, clothes,
behavior, music, work, and so on. In fact the
concept of style can be applied to any kind of
human activity that may be performed in
more than one way, and also to the result of
such an activity.

6. The origin of stylistics
• Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which
investigates the entire system of expressive
resources available in a particular language
• The word-stylistics was firstly attested in the
oxford English dictionary only in 1882,
meaning the science of literary style, the study
of stylistics features.

7. Types of stylistics
Linguistic stylistics
• Studies the devices in
language of literary
texts (such as rhetorical
figures and syntactical
patterns) that are
employed to produce
expressive or literary
style.
Literary stylistics
• Established methods of
close reading or practical
criticism of texts, the
procedures of literary
stylistics remain traditional
in character in spite of
development in literary
theory which assumption
about the role of language
in depicting literary
realities.

9. Lexical stylistics
• Studies function of direct and figurative
meanings.
• Also the way contextual meaning of a
word is realized in the text
• Deals with various type of connotation-
expressive, evaluative, dialectal words
and their behavior in the text.

10. Phonostylistics
• It is phonetical organization of prose and
poetic texts
• Here are included rhythm, rhythmical
structure, rhyme, alliteration, and correlation
of the sound form and meaning
• Also studies deviation in normative
pronunciation

11. Comparative stylistics
• It connected with the contrastive study
of more than one language
• It analyses the stylistics resources not
inherent in a separate language but at
the crossroads of two language, or two
literature and is obviously linked to the
theory translation.

12. Grammatical stylistics
• Subdivided into morphological and syntactical:
• Morphological stylistics views stylistic potential of
grammatical categories of different parts of speech.
• Syntactical stylistics studies syntactic, expressive means, word
order and word combination, different types of sentences and
types of syntactic connections. Also deals with origin of the
text, its division on paragraph, dialogs, direct and indirect
speech, the connection of sentences, types of sentences.

13. Individual style study
• Studies the style of the author
• Looks for correlation of the
author and the language of his
work

14. Stylistics of decoding
• Deal with all subdivision of the
language and its possible use
(newspaper, colloquial style).
• Its object-correlation of the
message and communicative
situation

15. Stylistics of encoding
• The shape of the information (message) is
coded and addressee plays the part of
decoder of the information which is contained
in message
• The problems which are connected with
adequate reception of message without any
loses ( deformation) are the problems of
stylistics of encoding.

16. The need for the study of stylistics
• Style is an integral part of meaning. With out the sense of
style we cannot arrive at a better understanding of an
utterance
• Stylistic study sharpens the understanding and appreciation of
literary works
• Stylistic study helps achieve adaption in translation
• It can prompt, direct, and shape it into an understanding.

17. conclusion
• Stylistics is the scientific study of language and
literature
• It has link with other field of science
• Stylistics help to understand the language in a
different and better way
• Braches of stylistics
• Without stylistics we cannot arrive at better
understanding