Lecture 1 General problems of stylistics Plan: Stylistics as a branch of linguistics. The objectives of Stylistics

the common ground
of: 
1) The literary language from the point of view of its variability. 
2) The idiolect (individual speech) of a writer. 
3) Poetic speech that has its own specific laws. 
The points of difference
proceed from the different points of analysis. While 
lingua-stylistics studies: 
1) Functional styles (in their development and current state). 
2) The linguistic nature of the figures of speech of the language, their 
systematic character and their functions. 
Literary stylistics is focused on: 
1)
The composition of a work of art. 
2)
Various literary genres.
3)
The writer's outlook. 
Modern stylistics tends to study the subject of stylistics in separate language 
layers and demarcates different 
branches of stylistics
each of them deal with a 
definite problem of the subject.
Comparative stylistics 
is connected with the contrastive study of stylistic 
phenomenon in the level of more than one language. It analyses the stylistic 
resources not inherent in a separate language but at the crossroads of two languages, 
or two literatures and is obviously linked to the theory of translation. For instance, 
the comparative study (or translation) of metaphors in English and Uzbek languages 
can be one of the problems of comparative stylistics.
 
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Znamenskaya T.A. Stylistics of the English Language. УРCC. 2008. – Стр.10 

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Decoding stylistics 
deals with analyses of the text from both author’s and 
reader’s point of view. It takes intoconsideration the epoch, the historical situation, 
the personal, political, social, aesthetic views of the author and vocabulary, 
composing sentence arrangement. That is to say it makes literary and linguistic 
analyses simultaneously. Decoding stylistics is an attempt to harmoniously 
combine the two methods of stylistic research and enable the scholar to interpret a 
work of art with a minimum loss of its purport and message.