Subject matter of stylistics 2

What is the main focus of functional stylistics?

• The study of language means on all language levels

• The study of the effects of the message on the reader or listener

• The study of individual author's style

• The study of language norms and usage

What is a functional style?

• A unique combination of language units and expressive means

• The study of language variation and differentiation

• The study of language usage norms in a given period

• A system of language means intended to fulfill a specific function of communication

Decoding Stylistics...

• The study of language norms and usage

• The study of individual author's style

• The study of problems connected with adequate reception of the message

• The study of functional styles

What is the main focus of individual style study?

• The study of language norms and usage

• The study of functional styles

• The study of problems connected with adequate reception of the message

• The study of an individual author's unique style

What is the focus of practical stylistics?

• The study of individual author's style

• The study of functional styles

• The study of language variation and differentiation

• The study of language norms and usage

Expressive means of the language...

• pitch, melody, stress, pausation, drawling out, whispering and sing-song manner

• are those phonetic, morphological, word-building, lexical, phraseological, syntactical forms, which exist in language-as-a-system for the purpose of logical or emotional intensification of the utterance

• number, Historical Present, “shall” in the 2 or 3 person, demonstrative pronouns, verbals

• different affixes: e.g. diminutive suffixes – dearie, sonny, auntie, streamlet. At the lexical level expressiveness can also be rendered by the words possessing inner expressive charge - interjections, epithets, slang and vulgar, poetic or archaic words, set phrases, idioms, catchwords, proverbs and sayings

Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary

• literary layer, colloquial, neutral

• colloquial, neutral

• literary layer

• neutral

Stylistic Devices...

• Lexical Stylistic Devices

  Lexico- syntactical Stylistic Devices

  Syntactical Stylistic Devices

  Phonetic Stylistic Devices

• Syntactical Stylistic Devices

  Phonetic Stylistic Devices

• Lexical Stylistic Devices

  Lexico- syntactical Stylistic Devices

• Lexico- syntactical Stylistic Devices

  Syntactical Stylistic Devices

Types of speech...

• oral and written

• oral

• written

• spoken

The main problems under consideration in Stylistics...

• Functional Style, Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary, Types of speech,
  Stylistic Devices and Expressive Means of the language

• Types of speech,
  Stylistic Devices and Expressive Means of the language

• Functional Style, Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary,

• Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary, Types of speech,