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A brief summary Stylistics is a newly-born study, it was in the 1960s that stylistic study really began to flourish in Great Britain and the United States. Professor Wang Zuoliang is the first person in China to study it. The stylistics we are discussing here is Modern Stylistics, a discipline that applies concepts and techniques of modern linguistics to the study of styles of language use. It has two subdivisions: General Stylistics and Literary Stylistics, with the latter concentrating solely on unique features of various literary works, and the former on the general features of various types of language use. 1.2.1 Speech Acts 1.2.2 Speech Events 1.2.3 Text / Message / Discourse 1. Substantial 2. Formal 3. Situational It is this contextual relationship between the substance and form of a speech event on the one hand and the situation in which it occurs on the other, which gives what is normally called “meaning” to utterance. In other words, context determines meaning of features in situation. e.g. My beloved grandfather has just passed to his heavenly reward. My dear grandfather has just expired. My grandfather has just passed away. My grandfather has died. 同是表达“死”这个概念，但场合不同，表达方式也不同。 1.4.1 Language Varieties Language is always used in a context. In other words, speech events differ in different situations, we often adjust our language according to the nature of the context of the situation. As a result, there have appeared different types of a language which called Varieties of Language. e.g. Old/Modern English, British/American English, Black English, legal English, advertising English, etc. 1.4.2 Language Functions ( put forward by Halliday) * Ideational/Referential Function（概念功能）: serves for expressing the speaker’s/writer’s experience of the real world, including the inner world of his/her own consciousness. ( 表达reality ) * Interpersonal/Expressional /Social Function（人际功能）: severs to establish and maintain social relations,