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秦秀白《英语文体学入门》

钱瑗《实用文体学教程》

王守仁《英语文体学要略》

申丹《文学文体学与小说翻译》

张德禄《功能文体学》

Thornborrow, J. & Wareing, S. (2000). Patterns in Language: Stylistics for Students of Language and Literature. 外语教学与研究出版社.

Leech, G.N. (1969). A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman. Leech, G.N. (2007). Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. London: Pearson Education.

Jeffries, L. & McIntyre, D. (2010). Stylistics. Cambridge University Press. Journals

Language and Literature

Style

Journal of Literary Semantics and English Text Construction

Others

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Chapter 1 Stylistics: A Survey

Modern stylistics is a sub-branch of modern linguistics, exactly speaking, an interdisciplinary subject linking linguistics and literary criticism.

2. Definition and classification of stylistics

2.1 Defining stylistics

Stylistics can be defined in its narrow sense （literary stylistics）as well as its broad sense （general/theoretical stylistics）

2.1.1 Stylistics in its narrow sense: literary stylistics

Widdowson (1975: 3), stylistics is “the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation”, which is essentially a means of linking literary criticism and linguistics.

Leech (1969: 1-2) defines stylistics as the “study of the use of language in literature”and considers stylistics a “meeting-ground of linguistics and literary study”.

2.1.2 Stylistics in its broad sense: general stylistics

A sub-discipline of linguistics that is concened with the systematic analysis of style in language and how this can vary according to such factors as genre, context, historical period and author (Leech, 2008).

---Analyzing style means looking systematically at the formal features of a text and determining their functional significance for the interpretation of the text in question.

2.2 Tasks of stylistics

According to Lang (1987) and Toolan (1990), there are three tasks for stylistic studies:

1) serving the purpose of teaching and learning foreign languages;

2) providing a base for the application of linguistic theories, to be tested and verified, further improved and perfected; and

3) offering a methodology for literary studies.

2.3 Relation between stylistics and other disciplines

Modern stylistics is rooted in modern linguistics, using models and methods of linguistic description in the stylistic analysis of texts. Stylistics is also closely related to literary theories.

---its root in formalist school of literary criticism in Russia in the early 20th century with representatives such as Roman Jakobson. It aims to isolate properties and characteristics of literary language.

---stylistics draws upon theories and models from other fields more frequently than it develops its own theories.

2.4 Classification of stylistics

There are various types of classification of stylistics based on different criteria:

1) Based on the scope of study

literary stylistics (such as Wang Shouyuan, 2000; Shen Dan, 1995; and Cook, 1999), non-literary stylistics, general/theoretical stylistics (such as Hu Zhuanglin, 2000; Wang Zuoliang & Ding wangdao, 1987; and Xu Youzhi, 2005),

practical stylistics (such as Qian Yuan, 2006).

2) Based on data or object of study

a. literary stylistics including fictional stylistics, poetic stylistics, dramatic stylistics,