Stylistics

concentrating

on the unique features of various

literary works, such as poem, novel,

prose, drama

• Literary Stylistics

• General Stylistics

• Prosodal Stylistics

• Informal Stylistics

is a branch of linguistics

which studies style in a scientific

and systematic way concerning

the manners / linguistic features of

different varieties of language at

different levels.

• Pragmatics

• Discourse Analysis

• Stylistics

• Semantics

concentrating

on the general features of various

types of language use, including

literary discourses and other

practical styles

• Phonology

• Literary Stylistics

• Articulatory Phonetics

• General Stylistics

studies the choice of specific

lexical items in a text, their distribution in

relation to one another, and their meanings.

Semantics studies the overall meaning

of a text, the meaning derived from the

way sentences / utterances are used

and the way they are related to the

context in which they are used /

uttered and some rhetoric devices.

• True

• False

The stylistics analysis of a text

involves the description of a writer’s /

speaker’s linguistic markers

• True

• False

Stylistics does not reflect the views of

the individual critic, but an

impersonal, reproducible ‘truth’.

• True

• False

Stylistic study sharpens

the understanding and

appreciation of grammatical works and choices

• True

• False

The following are part of the phonological level except

• Simile

• Spelling

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

The following are the maxims of Grice except:

• quality

• relevance

• manner

• appearance