Stylistic Grammar. Branches of Stylistics

Stylistic Grammar

a) stylistic morphologystudies stylistic potential of some grammatical forms and categories, such as the number of the noun, peculiar use of the tense forms of the verb, etc.

b) stylistic syntaxhas to do with the expressive order of words, types of syntactic links (asyndeton, polysyndeton), figures of speech (antithesis, chiasmus, etc.)

3.2 Stylistic Devices (SD) and Expressive Means (EM).

A stylistic device is a literary model in which semantic & structural features are blended so that it represents a generalized pattern, employed for an expressive purpose.

Expressive Means are those linguistic forms & properties that have the potential to make the utterance emphatic and expressive. They can be found on all levels: phonetic, graphical, morphological, lexical or syntactical.

4. Branches of Stylistics

a). Comparative Stylistics

Comparative stylistics is connected with the contrastive study of more than one language. It analyses the stylistic resources not inherent (present as a part) in a separate language but at the crossroads of two languages or two literatures.

b). Decoding Stylistics (L.Shcherba, B.Larin, R.Jackobson, I.Arnold) - a comparatively new branch of stylistics.

Each act of speech has the performer, or sender of speech ( he/she does the act of encoding the information) - the recipient (a person who receives smth.) does the act of decoding the information).

If we look at the text from the author’s angle of view we should consider the epoch, historical situation, personal, political, social and aesthetic views of the author.

But if we look at the text from the reader’s angle of view we have to disregard the background knowledge & get the maximum info from the text itself (vocabulary, composition, sentence arrangement, etc.)

Decoding Stylistics is an attempt to harmoniously combine these two methods.

5. Stylistic classification of the English Vocabulary

a) Galperin’s classification

He divides the English vocabulary into three layers:

- literary;

- neutral;

- colloquial

According to Galperin the aspect of the literary layer is its bookish character, the aspect of the colloquial layer is its lively spoken character and the aspect of the neutral layer is its universal character.

Literary layer: common literary words – e.g. He is always in extremes; perpetually in the superlative degree.

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