Lecture Text stylistics Questions to be discussed

Comprehension Questions:
1. What are Communicative and pragmatic stylistics
2. Discuss the following types of pragmatic intentions:
• to attract attention;
• to interest the reader;
• to exert an emotional impact;
• to activize knowledge structures;
• to stimulate the addressee’s creativity;
• to represent the conceptual world picture.
The belle-lettres style
Questions to be discussed:

1. 
   Belle-lettres style
   
2. 
   The usage of some stylistic devices in belles-lettres style
   
3. 
   Usage of Metonymy in Belles letters style
   

Key words: Belles-lettres style, stylistic devices, linguistic features, Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony.

Each of these substyles has certain common features, typical of the general belles-lettres style. Each of them also enjoys some individuality. The purpose of the belles-lettres style, like unlike scientific, is not to prove but only to suggest a possible interpretation of the phenomena of life by forcing the reader to see the viewpoint of the writer.

The belles-lettres style has certain linguistic features:

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  Genuine, not trite, imagery, achieved by linguistic devices.
  
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  The use of words in contextual and very often in more than one dictionary meanings.
  
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  A vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser degree the author’s personal evaluation of things or phenomena.
  
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  A peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax.
  
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  The introduction of the typical features of a colloquial language to a full degree (in plays) or lesser one (in emotive prose) or a slight degree (in poems).
  

The usage of some stylistic devices in belles-lettres style is more obvious then other styles. For instance if we take the metaphorical structure of emotions in the romantic novels we should pay attention to the lists of metaphors, the majority of metaphors emphasize the sense of emotions and feelings of human body. Certainly they can occur in literal books as novel, poems, stories.