Lectures in Stylistics. Stylistics is the study of style in written/spoken language. It’s a branch of linguistics and deals with the language.

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Lectures in Stylistics

Lecture I

1. What is Stylistics?

2. Issues of Stylistics

3. Objects of stylistics

a) Functional Styles (FS)

b) Stylistic Devices (SD) & Expressive Means (EM)

4. Branches of Stylistics

a) Comparative Stylistics

b) Decoding Stylistics

c) Functional Stylistics

5. Stylistic classification of the English Vocabulary

a) Galperin’s classification

b) Skrebnev’s classification.

Style derives from the Latin word “stilus” which meant a short stick used in ancient times by the Romans for writing on wax (tablets). Now it’s used in many senses: fashion, films…

So it’s used to express the way / manner of doing something.

Style in writing or literature is a particular way/ particular choice of words and grammar structures typical of a writer or speaker.

Stylistics is the study of style in written/spoken language. It’s a branch of linguistics and deals with the language.

Two functions of the language- communicative (primary) and cognitive(secondary).The communicative function is primary because language appeared due to the needs of intercourse and social regulation. The cognitiveis thesecondary functionthough it’s of great importance for the development of humanity: due to it mankind has acquired immense knowledge of the outside world.

By thetextwe mean a coherent (=naturally connected) sequence(=the order in which things/events follow one after another) of words irrespective of whether it has been recorded on paper or has just remained in our memory.

No national language is homogeneous (=the same all through) because many of its constituents/components are not used in every sphere of communication but belong to more or less definite special spheres.

Any national language reveals a motley picture of intersecting (=cutting across with each other) subsystems or sublanguages.

How many sublanguages are there in the national language?

It’s a common mistake to think that scholars really know how many sublanguages there are in a national language.

I. I.Galperin for example distinguishes 5 styles in English:

1. belles-lettres (Fr.): poetry, emotive prose, drama;

2. publicist style: oratory(art of making speech), essays, articles, etc.

3. newspaper style: brief news items, headlines, advertisements;

4. scientific prose style;

5. official document style

(No colloquial style in the classification)

II. I.Arnold singles out 4 styles for the English language:

1. poetic style;

2. scientific style;

3. newspaper style;

4. colloquial style.

III.Y.Skrebnev suggests the most unconventional viewpoint on the number of styles. He say the number of styles is infinite (without limits; finite=limited) if we include individual styles or mentioned in linguistic literature such as telegraphic, oratorical, reference book, Shakesperean, short story, or the style of literature in electronics, comp. language, etc)

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