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Problem: What problem of stylistic do linguists discuss?
Key words:
outline
obscure
aesthetic
interrelation
devices
intensification
pitch
archaic
manifest
intentional
The term stylistics is derived from the word “style”. The word style goes back to the word “stilos”. The Romans called thus a sharp stick used for writing on wax tablets. It was already in Latin that the meaning of the word “stilos” came to denote not only the tool of writing, but also the manner of writing. With this new meaning the word was borrowed into European languages.
What is stylistics? The subject of stylistics has far not been definitely outlined. It will not be an exaggeration to say that among the various branches of General Linguistics the most obscure in content is undoubtedly stylistics. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all there are confusions between the terms style and stylistics. The first concept is so broad it isn’t easy to regard it as a term. Because we speak of style in architecture, literature, behavior, linguistics, dress and in other, fields of human activity. Even in linguistics the word style is used so widely that it needs interpretation. Style applies to the following fields of investigation: 1) the aesthetic function of language, 2) expressive means in language, 3) synonymous ways of rendering one and the same idea, 4) emotional coloring in language, 5) stylistic devices, 6) the splitting of the literary language into separate subsystems called styles. 7) the interrelation between language and the thought and 8) the individual manner of an author. The term style is also applied to the teaching of how to write clearly, simply and emphatically. Due to this, we achieve correctness in writing and avoid ambiguity. There is a view that style is the correspondence between thought and its expression. You know that language has two function; communicative and expressive (shaping one’s thoughts).
The main goal of teaching Modern English Stylistics as an academic subject is to introduce students to this discipline and its interrelations with other branches of linguistics. The updated syllabus of this course provides an insight into both structural and cognitive understanding of stylistic entities and phenomena, into multi-aspect differentiation of speech registers, as well as into different contemporary approaches to text interpretation.
The tasks of the course of lie in:
–explaining students basic notions, concepts and problems of stylistics,
–instructing them how to identify and analyse linguostylistic phenomena in the literary and other registers of language,
–helping students to acquire philological competence in interpretation of the text as an artistic whole,
–improving students’ general knowledge of English (at all of its structural levels) and developing their critical viewpoint upon stylistic peculiarities of language use.