英语文体学 1

English Stylistics

英语文体学

Course Introduction

Course title: English Stylistics

Course hours: 2 per week, 34 in total

Assessment:

1. Attendance

2. After-class preparation for related topics

3. In-class performance and involvement

4. Quiz

5. Final exam

Teaching Objectives:

Have a systematic knowledge of the features of different varieties of language

Make appropriate use of language in our communication

Familiarize ourselves with the stylistic features of the different genres of literature

Deepen our understanding and appreciation of literary works

Offer useful ideas on translation and language teaching

Textbook: English Stylistics(英语文体学)

Other reference books:

Introduction to English Stylistics《英语文体学引论》（丁往道王佐良）

Essentials of English Stylistics 《英语文体学要略》（王守元）Practical English Rhetoric《实用英语修辞》（吕煦）

English Stylistics: A New Course book 《新编英语文体学教程》（董启明）

Course content:

本课程从英语学习的实际要求出发介绍有关英语文体和语体的基础知识，属于普通文体学的范畴。我们讨论的重点是英语中已经形成的各种变体，例如因交际媒介不同而形成的口语语体和书面语体；因语言的使用领域不同而形成的各种功能变体（广告语体、新闻语体、法律语体、会话语体、科技语体等）；因交际者双方关系不同而形成的正式语体和非正式语体等。

Chapter 1 The Concern of Stylistics

Definition of Style

Origin: Style originates from a Latin word stilus, it means:

An instrument made of metal, bone, etc., having one end sharp ended for incising letters on a wax tablet, and the other flat and broad for smoothing the tablet and erasing what is written: = stylus

Different understandings of style nowadays:

Style may refer to a person’s distinctive language habits. Eg. ‘Shakespeare’s style’, ‘Hemingway’s style’, ‘Lu Xun’s style’, etc..

Style may refer to a set of collective characteristics of language use, i.e. language habits shared by a group of people at a given time, as

‘Elizabethan style’, ‘Yankee humor’.

Style may refer to the effectiveness of a mode o f expression. “Saying the right thing in the most effective way”.

Style may refer solely to a characteristic of ‘good’ or ‘beautiful’ literary writing.

Style may be seen as the various characteristic uses of language that a person or group of persons make in various social contexts.

文体又可理解为风格，既可指一个作家运用语言的特色，又可指某个时代盛行的文风；既可指某种语篇体裁的语言特征，又可指某篇作品的语言格调和表现风格。狭义的文体指文学文体；广义的文体则指包括文学文体在内的各种语言变体。

Definition of Stylistics

It is a discipline that studies the sum of stylistic features characteristic of the different varieties of language. It includes:

The situational features that influence variations in language use

The criterion for the classification of language variety

The description and interpretation of the linguistic features and functions of the main varieties of language

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies style in a scientific and systematic way concerning the manners and linguistic features of different varieties of language at different levels.

英语文体学是一门运用现代语言学的理论和方法，结合文学理论知