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• Stylistics


  The application of concepts from linguistic and allied disciplines in the analysis and interpretation of samples of communication through language
• Stylistics


  The linguistic study of different styles
• Stylistics


  A linguistic approach to the study of literary text
• Three basic principles of a linguistic approach to literary study and criticism (Carter)


  • The greater the detailed knowledge of the working of the language system, the greater the capacity for insightful awareness of the effects produced by the literary texts
  • A principled analysis of language can be used to make the commentary on the effects produced in a literary work less impressionistic and subjective
  • Analysis of a linguistic pattern requires checking against related patterns across the text. Conclusions can be attested and retrieved by another analyst working on the same data with the same method
• Importance of practical stylistics

  • It can provide the means whereby the student of literature can relate a piece of literary writings to his own experience of language and so can extend that experience
  • It can assist in the transfer of interpretive skills, on essential purpose of literary education
  • It can provide a procedure demystifying literary text
  • The focus of a literary text in itself provides a context in which the learning of aspects of language can be positively enjoyed
• Difference between literary criticism and stylistics

  • Literary criticism contributes to Linguistics; similarly Linguistics, in turn, contributes to Literary Criticism
  • Stylistics is actually a study of literary discourse from a linguistics orientation
  • There is a link between Stylistics, Linguistics and Literary Criticism
  • Stylistics involves both Literary Criticism and Linguistics. It is an area of mediation between two disciplines
• Stylistics can serve as a means whereby literature and language as subjects can by a process of gradual approximation move towards both linguistics and literary criticism, and also a means whereby these disciplines can be pedagogically treated to yield different subjects (Widdowson, 1975)
• Stylistics


  The study of style. It considers on the effective use of language. It studies about different styles (utterance, written text/ documents). Its concern is on the structure, elements of speech, utterance and others
• Linguistics


  The scientific study of language, both literary and nonliterary
• The scope of stylistics

  • Range of Text
  • Range of Theories
  • Range of Methods
• Range of text in stylistics

  • Stylistics deals with the full range of linguistic usage. Stylisticians now analyze the language of spoken communication, advertisements, humor and film. This is the recent development in the direction of multimodality
• Range of theories in stylistics

  • Stylistics was originated in theories of Formalism and was taken on the theory of Structuralism. But it is eclectic in its use of theory. These theories provided the descriptive apparatus which hints at writer's use of techniques of construction that could demonstrate the linguistic basis of literary effects
  • Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, based on contextual factors, emerged as a branch of stylistics. Evolution of Generative Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics is based on cognitive factors
  • Stylisticians used the ideas of these theories to support new analytical processes and provide new insights in the style of texts and their reception
• Range of methods in stylistics

  • Stylistics also uses a wide range of methods. Theories produce possible models of what the kind of language or text is like
  • Stylistics has been qualitative but Stylometrics has been more quantitative in method. In recent times, there has been renewed interest in quantitative study in Stylistics
• Principles of stylistics


  • Should be rigorous
  • Should be retrievable
  • Should be replicable
• Rigorous


  Refers to the analysis. There must be consistency and clarity in the work (how the sampling is done). There must be an inter-coder
• Retrievable


  Organized through explicit terms. Meanings are agreed by other scholars
• Replicable


  Methods should be sufficiently transparent
• Stylistics and style


  • Style as Choice
  • Style as the Man
  • Style as Deviation
  • Style as Conformity
  • Style as Period or Time
  • Style as Situation
• Stylistics