This document provides an analysis of the poem "I Died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson at various linguistic levels. It defines stylistic analysis and outlines several levels of analysis including the phonological, grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, graphological, discourse, and lexical levels. For each level, it provides examples of linguistic features and concepts that could be analyzed such as stress, rhythm, denotation, implicature, punctuation, genres, and word types.

1. Stylistic
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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. (Grice, 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