Презентация на тему General notes on style and style study (lecture 1)

from the Latin word stylos, which meant "a stick

means which serves a definite aim in communication.”

sublanguage. Style can be roughly defined as the peculiarity,

and patterns of choices among linguistic possibilities."

of investigation:
the interrelation between language and thought;
the aesthetic function

reflects the peculiarities of the thought. And vice versa,

sense style is generally defined as the ability to

interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in

style,
newspaper style,
colloquial style.

the English literary standard:
the language of belles-letres.
the language of

belles- letters style;
the publicist style;
the newspaper style;
the scientific prose

a branch of general linguistics which investigates the principles

of general linguistics, which deals with the following two

a) it studies the totality of special linguistic means (stylistic devices and expressive means) which secure the desirable effect of the utterance;
b) it studies certain types of texts "discourse" which due to the choice and arrangement of the language are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of communication (functional styles).

expression of the language, the totality of the expressive

the choice of a definite language means in a

stylistic properties of language elements while the stylistics of

of the utterance – the arrangement, selection and distribution

studies stylistically coloured language means, expressive abilities and semantic

in a separate language but at the crossroads of

particular, typical to different spheres of communication subsystems (called

vocabulary, grammar and phonetics, thus distinguishing lexical, grammatical and

functions of direct and figurative meanings, also the way

the study of style-forming phonetic features of the text.

stylistic potentials of specific grammatical forms and categories, such

order and word combinations, different types of sentences and

characteristic to a work of art, a writer, a

the language and all their possible usages, is the

may be named the stylistics of the encoder: the

usage at a given period and teaching these norms

emotiveness,
expressive means,
stylistic devices.

(both oral and written), sequence of words, grammatically connected

units, their functioning and interaction in conveying ideas and

of an utterance or of a part of it

is what reveals the emotions of a writer or

is by no means to be reduced to the

choice of language means conforms with the most general

study of connotative meanings. All language units can be

Those which, along with their denotative meaning, possess a connotation (i.e. carry some additional information, either expressive or emotive) are called stylistically marked, or stylistically coloured.
Those which do not have a connotative meaning are stylistically neutral.

language levels which enter the first group are called

means are not language phenomena. They are formed in

of neutral words, word-combinations and syntactic structures. Revaluation makes

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