Stylistics1文体学课件.pptVIP

Stylistics Chapter 1 Introduction Preliminaries What is style? What is stylistics? Language??? The language habits of one person (Shakespeare’s style) The language habits of a group of people at a given time (the eighteenth century style) The characteristics of language use in a particular genre (style of advertising discourse) The effectiveness of language use (lucid style, plain style, pompous style) 1. Definition of Stylistics The study of style (Wales, 1989: 437) The study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. What distinguishes stylistics from literary criticism on the on