Stylistics:historyand development.pptVIP

Lecture 2文体学 —— 历史与发展Stylistics：History and Development 1. Style and Stylistics Style: variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style Stylistics “studies the features of situationally distinctive uses (varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language.” (Crystal 1980) Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in context. For example, the language of advertising, politics, religion, individual a