Subject matter of Stylistics

What is Stylistics?

• Stylistics is a branch of Lexicology.

• Stylistics is a branch of Phonetics.

• Stylistics is a branch of General Linguistics.

• Stylistics is a branch of Grammar.

Depending on the approach and the final aim of investigation how many trends of Stylistics do we distinguish?

• 3

• 6

• 5

• 4

... is the most all-embracing “global” trend in style study. It studies functional styles of the language.

It studies problems connected with adequate reception of the message without any informational losses or deformations.

• Functional Style

• Individual style study

• Decoding stylistics

• Practical Stylistics

... study are the problems of an individual author’s style, looking for correlations between the creative concepts of the author and the language of his works.

... is the stylistics that proceeds from the norms of language usage at a given period and teaches these norms to language speakers.

• Individual style study

• Decoding Stylistics

• Functional Styles

• Practical stylistics

According to the situation in which the communication proceeds how many types of speech do we distinguish?

• 1

• 4

• 3

• 2

... proceeds in the presence of interlocutor, the main form of it is a dialogue.

... does not require any interlocutor, its main form is a monologue.

The oral types of speech differs from the written language ...

• phonetically, morphologically, lexically and syntactically.

• phonetically, morphologically, lexically and physically.

• phonetically, morphologically, lexically and chemically.

• psychologically, morphologically, lexically and syntactically.