Types of Stylistics

Radical Stylistics:

• Radical Stylistics:
• Thus, the stylistician attempts to discover in the text certain jargons associated with such ideologies.
• This is allied to sociological criticism.
• The label suggests that such an analyst would have a passion for the reflection or rejection of an ideological bias.

Cognitive stylistics

• Cognitive stylistics
• Cognitive stylistics combines the kind of explicit, rigorous and detailed linguistic analysis of literary texts that is typical of the stylistics tradition with a systematic and theoretically informed consideration of the cognitive structures and processes that underlie the production and reception of language.
• What is new about cognitive stylistics is the way in which linguistic analysis is systematically based on theories that relate linguistic choices to cognitive structures and processes. This provides more systematic and explicit accounts of the relationship between texts on the one hand and responses and interpretations on the other.

Corpus stylistics:

• Corpus stylistics:
• “a finite-sized body of machine-readable texts, sampled in order to be maximally represen-tative of a particular language or the language variety under consideration” (McEnery and Wilson 2001:32).
•  (…) a text is a selection from the potential of the language (…) Comparative corpus methods (…) allow us to study how far texts consist of recurrent phrasal patterns which are widespread in the language as a whole. (Stubbs 2005: 21)
• Corpus stylistics is not simply a computer-assisted analysis of literary texts, it still needs the researcher’s understanding of the texts under investigation to interpret the patterns.

New Stylistics:

• New Stylistics:
•  This is a rather vague term used to denote some fresh models of stylistic analysis.
• Such models cease to be “new” as soon as “newer” models evolve.
• For example, Leo Spitzer’s ideas about stylistics as one of its originators in Western Europe were considered “new.”
• However, the term is often applied more consistently to the studies in the West from the 1970s, which employed the latest principles of structuralism, poetics and reader-response criticism in the analysis of literary texts.