a brief summary about phonological and Graphological level

1. Phonological and Graphological level

2. The phonological level:
• It is concerned with the phonetic
resources as they are used in a given
language, it studies the sound system

3. • Phonology is organized in units (tone
group which carries contrasts of
intonation, the foot which carries the
rhythm, syllable which carries
contrasts of stress, and phoneme
which is the smallest phonological
unit),

4. • Some of the features which are signaled out to
contribute the totality of stylistic construction
that makes up a writer's style are:
• 1. Repetition of certain constants (nasal,
sibilants, emphatic …)
• 2. Nature of syllables (open or closed)
• 3. Quantity of syllable (short, long)
• 4. The position, nature and quantity of the
prominent syllable)
• 5. Elision, alliteration, liaison …
• 6. Prosodic features of stress, length of
intonation and their relation to rhythm.

5. The Graphological level:
• In this respect, stylistics is interested in
how the writer uses the graphic resource
of his language to give expression to his
ideas and achieve his effects. It describes
patterns of writing that distinguish the
writer's style, for example capitalization,
punctuation, spacing and so on.

6. • The graphology of each language
has its own units, in English we
have: Paragraph, orthographic
sentence, sub – sentence,
orthographic word, and letters.