This document discusses stylistics, defining it as the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. It outlines the purpose, outcomes, and levels of stylistics, including phonological, grammatical, and lexical features, while also differentiating between literary and non-literary texts. Key stylistic features such as metaphor, hyperbole, and various word types are highlighted to illustrate the diverse techniques authors use to convey meaning.

1. Stylistics

2. About this template
Headings of Stylistics
o What is Stylistics?
o What is the purpose of Stylistics?
o What are the outcomes of Stylistics?
o What is the difference between literary
and non-literary text?
o What are the levels of Stylistics?
o What are the features of Stylistics?
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I AM IFRA NAZIR
I am here because I love to give presentations.
My topic of Presentation is Stylistics
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What is Stylistics?
Let’s start with the first set of slides
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Stylistics is the study and interpretation
of texts from a linguistic perspective.
It includes the use of dialogue including
regional accents, people’s dialects’
descriptive language, use of grammar
such as active or passive voice.
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6. What is the purpose of Stylistics?
◉ to describe the formal features of texts
◉ in order to show their functional significance
◉ for the interpretation of the text.
Stylistics analysis involves the analysis of various styles used in
language to derive the desired meaning or theme of given texts.
It involves identifying the various ways in which authors of literary
works or poets convey their message, i.e., through an indirect and
hidden pattern.
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7. Literary
The composition of a work of art
in various literary genres is the
writer’s outlook.
Studying forms, such as poetry,
drama, and prose.
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Non-literary
This is stylistics viewed from the
broad notion of the linguistic
study of all types of linguistic
events from different domains
of life.
Such as advertisements,
newspapers, songs, movies, and
academic books.
Outcomes of Stylistic text
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Phonological
It is the study of the
sound system of a
language and also
describes formal rules
of pronunciation. The
phonological devices
are alliteration,
repetition,
consonance,
assonance, etc.
Grammatical
It includes grammar,
parts of speech,
clauses, and phrases
used in writing. It helps
us to find out the
subtleties of time, and
place and about what
is done, what is going
to be, and what was in
the past.
Lexical
it includes the study
of individual words
and idioms in different
linguistic contexts. It
involves the study of
semantics, word
formation, and
morphology.
Levels of Stylistics
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9. Features of Phonology
◉ Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named e.g buzz, tick, meow,
quack, roar, neigh, etc.
◉ Assonance
Close repetition of vowels throughout the sentence, e.g feel feet sweep by sleeping geeks
◉ Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it is something else, e.g laughter is
the best medicine.
◉ Hyperbole
It is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to show emphasis, e.g It’s too fluffy I am
gonna die.
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10. Features of Grammatical level
◉ Syntax Structure
The syntax is the grammatical structure of words and phrases to create coherent
sentences. Such as, ( S + P + DO + SA + A )
◉ Sentence Type
It is Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences.
◉ Sentence Function
These are Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamative sentences.
◉ Word Class
The term word class is similar to parts of speech. Two major word classes are;
◉ Lexical (Open class)
◉ Function (Close class)
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11. Features of Lexicals
◉ Archaic Words
Style of a language used in classical old literature and to impart an old-fashioned flavor, e.g
thee, thy, hath, thou, thine, herein, thence, etc.
◉ Neologism
A neologism is a new word or new meaning for an existing word, e.g COVID-19, selfie, brunch
(breakfast+lunch), smog (smoke+fog), spork (spoon+fork), etc
◉ Collocation
A collocation is a group of two or more words that usually go together, e.g fast food, to feel free,
to take a risk, to pay attention, to do homework, to give someone advice, etc.
◉ Port Manteau Words
A word that results from blending, or two or more words, or parts of words, such that the port
manteaux word expresses some combination of the meaning of its parts, e.g motel from (motor
+ hotel), Spork from (spoon + fork), brunch from (breakfast + lunch).
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12. Thanks!
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