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Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction of Stylistics and Translation 文体学与翻译概论 1.1 What is Stylistics about? 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”. 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. 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. 1.2 Nature of Stylistic Analysis Stylistics analysis is generally concerned with the uniqueness of a text. This naturally involves comparisons of the language of the text with that used in conventional types of discourse. Stylisticians may also wish to characterize the style of a type by systematically comparing the language uses in that type with those in another. Halliday points out, “The text may be seen as ‘this’ in contrast with ‘that’, with another poem or another novel; stylistic studies are essentially comparative in nature…” (1971: 341) Stylistics analysis have seen four stages of development, namely, 1) register analysis (语域分析); 2) rhetorical and discourse analysis (修辞及篇章分析); 3) functional and stylistic analysis (功能文体分析); 4) genre analysis (体裁分析). 1.3 Stylistics and Translation Studies Generally speaking, stylistics covers such