Stylistics

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Stylistics
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Stylistic

• Stylistics is a critical approach which uses the
  methods and findings of the science of
  linguistics in the analysis of literary texts.

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Stylistics

• Is not confined to the analysis of literature it
  can be applied equally to expository prose,
  political speeches, advertisement and so son.
• It thus assumes that the language of literature
  is not a special case on the contrary,
  literary language can be analysed just like any
  other kind to reveal precisely how effects are
  created.

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stylistics

• Is, in a sense, the modern version of the ancient
  discipline known as rhetoric, which taught its
  students how to structure an argument, how to
  make effective use of figures of speech, and
  generally how to pattern and vary a speech or a
  piece of writing so as to produce the maximum
  impact.

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Stylistics Analysis

• Attempts to provide a commentary which is
  objective and scientific, based on concrete
  quantifiable data, and applied in a systematic
  way.

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Stylistics analysis

• Uses specialised technical terms and concepts
  which derive from the science of linguistics,
  terms like transitivity, under-lexicalisation,
  collocation, and cohesion.

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Stylistics analysis

• Stylistics makes greater claims to scientific
  objectivity than does close reading, stressing
  that its methods, and procedures can be learned
  and applied by all.

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Stylistic critics

• Describe technical aspects of the language of a
  textsuch as grammatical structuresthen use this
  data in interpretation.

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Stylistic critics

• - Stylistics does not confine itself to the
  analysis of literature and often juxtaposes
  literary and other kinds of discourse, for
  instance, comparing the linguistic devices used
  in poetry with those of advertising

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Stylistics critics

• Stylistics moves beyond sentence grammar to
  text grammar, considering how the text works as
  a whole to achieve (or not) its purpose (for
  instance, to amuse, to create suspense, or to
  persuade) and examining the linguistic features
  which contribute to these ends.