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grammar Halliday’s systematic functional linguistics
1.2 The Necessity of Stylistics
1. Stylistic study helps cultivate a sense of appropriateness English is not a homogenous phenomenon.
It has a wide range of varieties. People have to respond to a given situation with an appropriate variety of language, and as they move through the day, they change the type of language they
1.2 The Necessity of Stylistics
Examples of different varieties of English: Regional dialect Regional differences
Social dialect Differences in social status
English Stylistics
Liu Ruiqin
The Study of Stylistics
Chapter One
1.1 The Definition of Stylistics
The development of stylistics: 1. It has developed on the basis of traditional
Kachru’s English Language Circles
The inner circle: traditional bases of English as primary language: UK , Ireland, USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
meeting ground of linguistics and literary study (Leech, 1969:1-2)
1.1 The Definition of Stylistics
Now stylistics can be defined as “the study of discourse or text on the basis of modern linguistic theories”. Linguistically Initiated by: Chomsky’s transformational generative
1.1 The Definition of Stylistics
Definition: The study of style (Wales, 1989:437) The study of literary discourse from a linguistic
orientation (Widdowson,1975:3) The study of the use of language in literature, a
1.2 The Necessity of Stylistics
are using with the changing situation. Only in this way can they communicate on a range of subjects, with persons in various walks of life, and gain their understanding as well as understand them.
The expanding circle: countries that recognize the importance of English as an international language, but with no history of colonization; English has no special administrative status in these countries, e.g. China, Japan, Sweden, Poland and many more
1.1 The Definition of Stylistics
3. In the late 1950s, it became a field of academic inquiry.
4. In the last three or four decades, the object of analysis expands into the study of nonliterary texts.
The outer or extended circle: represent the earlier spread of English in non-native contexts; English is part of the country’s leading institutions; plays a second-language role in a multilingual society, e.g. Singapore, India, Malawi, and 50 other territories.
KacFra Baidu bibliotekru’s Model
rhetoric traced back to the time of the great Greek civilization with Plato and Aristotle as pioneering figures. 2. Before the 1950s, it was mainly concerned with the study of literary works.
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