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Speech Stylistics, in her opinion, studies texts, the way they render the content, the literary norm and deviations from norm.

One and the same information may be rendered differently, depending on the situation of communication, on the social status of the interlocutors, on their relations, on the emotional attitude of the speakers, their mood and health. These facts are not explicitly expressed in the text; they are rendered in different roundabout ways. Thus the main task of Stylistics is to give the stylistic analysis of the given information or to decode it.

Information in speech may be of two types:

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  Subject, logical information making up the essence of the utterance;
  
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  Additional information about conditions of communication and the participants of communication.
  

E.g. I weally don’t know whewer I’m a good girl. (= “I really don’t know whether I’m a good girl” Here in addition to the content the author also describes the person’s manner of speaking)

There exist two trends in the stylistic analysis: 1) to single out the key idea of the extract (i.e. to define different stylistic devices, to assert the initial hypothesis); 2) to single out some formal details, peculiarities of the text (i.e. explain their usage, considering them in their interaction and then formulate the idea and the theme of the extract). Both ways of analysis are aimed at revealing the unity of form and meaning, at perceiving the text as a unit.

Of late there has appeared a new term “Stylistics of Decoding” or “Stylistics of Perception” opposed to the term “Stylistics of Encoding”.