Stylistic.pptVIP

Stylistics: Stylistically Significant Linguistic Features What is stylistics? Stylistics is the study of the use of language in literature Stylistics is a meeting-ground of linguistics and literary study Stylistics is an area of study which straddles two disciplines: literary criticism and linguistics. It takes literary discourse (text) as its object of study and uses linguistics as a means to that end. Linguistic levels for stylistic analysis Phonological features?(phonological deviation)? Graphological features (graphonological deviation)?? ?? Lexical features (lexical deviation)? Syntactic features (syntactic deviation)? Semantic features ?(semantic deviation)? A: Lexical categories Here we mainly focus on 4 categories: The checklist of lexical categories and  their stylistic functions respectively a. Nouns-abstract: society/idea, or concrete:  house/cat? What kinds of abstract nouns occur (referring to events: war/eruption,  perceptions: understanding/consciousness,  processes: development, moral virtue or social responsibility, qualities bravery)?  What use is made of proper names? Are there any collective nouns people/staff? b.Adjective-referring to what attribute? physical woolen, psychological joyful, visualhilly square/snowy, auditory bubbling/sizzling, sensory slippery/smooth, color dark/red, referential big dog/white house, emotive exited/happy, evaluative good/fat/bad/lazy?gradable young/tall/useful or non-gradable atomic/British? attributive an utter fool or predicative he is ashore ? restrictive the exact answer? intensifying the simple truth/a complete victory/a slight effort? stative tall/long or dynamic abusive/ambitious? c.Verbs–Are they stative cost/believe/remain, or dynamic walk/arrive? Do they refer to movements climb/jump/slide, physical acts spread/smell/taste/laugh, or speech acts persuade/decline/beg, psychological states or activities think/feel/imagine/know/love. or perceptions see/hear