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Stylistics of Encoding presupposes the knowledge not only of the creative biography of the author, but also of the literary epoch, literary trend and the history of literature

Stylistics of Decoding studies the way a literary work influences the reader. It concentrates the reader’s attention on the analysis of the linguistic means used. It deals with text interpretation.

1.2. Connection of Stylistics with Other Branches of Linguistics

Being a branch of Linguistics Stylistics is closely connected with all its branches, as the subject matter of the stylistic analysis is the language in all its aspects (lexical, grammatical, phonetic, etc.); but stylistics differs from other branches of Linguistics by its tasks and approaches.