stylistics (n.)

A branch of LINGUISTICS which studies the features of SITUATIONALLY distinctive uses (VARIETIES) of LANGUAGE, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language. General stylistics deals with the whole range (or REPERTOIRE) of non-DIALECTAL varieties encountered within a language; literary stylistics deals with the variations characteristic of literature as a genre and of the ‘style’ of individual authors. Applied stylistics is often used for the study of contextually distinctive varieties of language, especially with reference to the style of literary and non-literary texts. The quantification of stylistic patterns is the province of stylostatistics (or stylometry) – a field which usually studies the statistical structure of literary texts, often using computers. The study of the expressive or aesthetic function of sound is sometimes called phonostylistics.

The term ‘stylistics’ is occasionally used in a very broad sense, to include all situationally distinctive language – that is, including the variations of regional, social and historical dialects. It is more common, however, to see style used in a highly restricted sense – though the extremely broad and ambiguous reference of the term in everyday use has not made its status as a technical linguistic term very appealing. For example, in the HALLIDAYAN classification of language varieties, style (more fully, style of discourse) refers to the relations among the participants in a language activity, especially the level of FORMALITY they adopt (colloquial, formal, etc.). Alternative terms used by some linguists, presumably to avoid the ambiguity of an additional sense for the term ‘style’, include MANNER and TENOR. The main terms with which it contrasts in the Hallidayan model are MODE and FIELD. A similar conception of style in terms of ‘vertical’ formality level is found in many SOCIOLINGUISTIC studies. In some contexts (such as GENERATIVE GRAMMAR), stylistic rules refer to optional processes which highlight an element in a sentence. Style-shifting refers to the way speakers within a language may alternate between styles in order to achieve a particular effect.

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قسم صناعة الشبابيك يشرع بإدامة شباكين قديمين لمرقد الإمامين العسكريين (عليهما السلام)

فرقة العباس (عليه السلام) تختتم خدماتها المقدمة للزائرين في سامراء

موكب العتبتين المقدستين يحيي ذكرى استشهاد الإمام الهادي (عليه السلام) في سامراء

العتبة العسكرية المقدسة تكرّم وفد العتبة العباسية المقدسة لمشاركته في تقديم الخدمات للزائرين

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كنز غذائي على طبقك.. ماذا تفعل السبانخ بجسمك؟

ما لا يتوقعه أحد.. "سر غذائي" في الجبن الدسم

لتحسين الهضم والنوم.. هذا أفضل وقت لتناول العشاء

10 طرق بسيطة وغير مألوفة لحرق المزيد من السعرات يوميا

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

سابقة بعالم الطيران.. طائرة تقرر الهبوط بنفسها بعد ظرف طارئ

"الإنفلونزا الخارقة" تكتسح دول العالم.. وتثير قلقا كبيرا

مرحلة ما قبل الأعراض.. دواء جديد يستهدف "شرارة" الزهايمر

إزالة ثاني أكسيد الكربون من الغلاف الجوي.. ما دور المحيطات والبحار؟

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مواضيع ذات صلة

Spelling and Pronunciation SUMMARY

American English vs. British English

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Vowels

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Consonants

Spelling and Pronunciation Irregularity of English Spelling

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology SUMMARY

Perception

Optimality Theory (OT)

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Markedness

Hypercontrast