There are various overlapping subdisciplines of stylistics

1. By: Mark Justine Llanto
SUBDISCIPLINES
OF STYLISTICS

2. In many ways, stylistics is an interdisciplinarity study of textual interpretations, using both
language comprehension and an understanding of social dynamics. A stylistician's textual
analysis is influenced by rhetoric reasoning and history.
Michael Burke describes the field in "The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics" as an
empirical or forensic discourse critique, wherein the stylistician is: "a person who with
his/her detailed knowledge of the workings of morphology, phonology, lexis, syntax,
semantics, and various discourse and pragmatic models, goes in search of language-
based evidence in order to support or indeed challenge the subjective interpretations
and evaluations of various critics and cultural commentators."
There are various overlapping subdisciplines of stylistics, and a person who studies any of
these is known as a stylistician

3. Literary stylistics:
Studying forms, such as poetry, drama, and prose. Literary
stylistics is a practice of analyzing the language of literature using
linguistic concepts and categories, with the goal of explaining
how literary meanings are created by specific language choices
and patterning, the linguistic foregrounding, in the text.
Evaluative stylistics:
How an author's style works—or doesn't—in the work.
Interpretive stylistics:
How the linguistic elements work to create meaningful art. This is
the practice engaged in by most stylisticians nowadays. It
involves the analysis of the linguistic data in a (literary) text, the
unravelling of the content or artistic value of the text and the
marrying of these two.

4. Discourse stylistics:
How language in use creates meaning, such as studying parallelism, assonance,
alliteration, and rhyme. Discourse stylistics examines the form and function of linguistic
constructs which are beyond the sentence in specific social, cultural or historical contexts,
as explored in a given discourse.
Cognitive stylistics:
The study of what happens in the mind when it encounters language. Cognitive stylistics
asserts that literary texts do not have style; individual minds do, in uttering. It contends
that individual styles are profoundly affected by the neural constraints surrounding mental
language processes.
Corpus stylistics:
Studying the frequency of various elements in a text, such as to determine the authenticity
of a manuscript. Corpus stylistics is a field of study that unites stylistics with corpus
linguistics, the branch of linguistics which employs computational analysis to a database
(or “corpus”) of naturally occurring language (from speech and writing).

5. Feminist stylistics:
Commonalities among women's writing,
how writing is engendered, and how
women's writing is read differently than
men's. Feminist stylistics can be defined as
the sub-branch of stylistics which aims to
account for the way in which gender
concerns are linguistically encoded in texts,
and which attempts to do so by employing
some of the frameworks and models
pertaining in the stylistics tool-kit.
Computational stylistics:
Using computers to analyze a text and
determine a writer's style. Study of
patterns formed in particular texts,
authors, genres, periods via
computational methods. Through the use
of computers, it should be possible to
achieve more accurate detection and
explanation of such linguistic patterns.

6. REFERENCES:
Theoretical Preliminaries and Major Varieties of English (Part One).
(https://heep.unipus.cn/bookdata/9787560072586y.pdf)
Richard Nordquist - Stylistics and Elements of Style in Literature
(https://www.thoughtco.com)