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Chapter 2 A Brief Introduction of Stylistics and Translation 文体学与翻译概论 2.1 What is Stylistics about? Language is a medium of conveying information and communicating feelings. To fulfill the communicative purpose, people should make the use of language. Considering different communicative environment, methods, objectives and purposes, communicators would opt different language varieties (语言变体) that has different functions so as to perform their communication effectively. The language varieties are what people called “style” (文体或语体). There are some diverse meanings of “style”. The origin of the world is stylus, Latin for “pen”. From this the word extended is meaning to mean “a way of writing”, and then became further refined to mean “a good way of writing”. “Style” often refers to “panache” or elegance, concepts that are regularly viewed in the English --- speaking world as being “Continental”, or more specifically, French. Another sense of “style” is that used in style books. The use of “Style” can extend to all situationally distinctive uses of language, literary and non-literary. As for English, for example, there are many styles of varieties, such as EST (English for Science and Technology), Advertising English, Press English, Law English, Tourism English, etc. In the middle 1970s, many scholars made the application of modern linguistics and literary criticism to the exploring research on various types of styles, thus bringing us a new discipline--- Stylistics. Stylistics, simply defined, is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the style of language is used. 2.2 Nature of Stylistic Analysis Stylistics analysis is generally concerned with the uniqueness of a text; that is, what it is that is peculiar to the uses of language in a text for delivering the message. This naturally involves comparisons of the language of the text with that used in conventional types of discourse.