英语文体学知识重点

Chapter 1 Introduction

· What is the English Stylistics？

It is a science that deals with the research for a wide variety of the styles of written and oral English in English language.

· What are language functions?

a) To deliver some infor to other people

b) To communicate with each other in society

·How do we express ourselves in a proper way?

Several factors do work.

a)Phonetics

b)Vocabulary

c)Grammar

d)Some knowledge concerning

English stylistics

·The correctness in using the language can not replace the appropriateness in language communication. Why?

Four examples:

a) “ Hello ” and “ Hi ”

b) “ Assist me! Assist me! ” and “ Aid! Aid! ”

c) “That’s all right.” “That’s to say.” “It’s ..”

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d) “ I am terribly sorry to hear that your husband has just died, but don’t let it upset you too much. You’re an attractive, young lady. I’m pretty sure it is very easy for you to find someone else soon. ” ·The effects of language expressions are sometimes related to some

non-linguistic factors.

a) Sex ------ “ Oh, my God! ”

b) Age ------ “ Cheers! ” and “ Bye for now. ”

c) Vocation ------ “ Watch the birdie. ” d) Received education ------ “ go to . ”

e) Social station ------ “ What prompted you to apply for this job? ” ·Why should we learn and study English stylistics?

a) It will help us to express ourselves in English properly.

b) It will help us to know something about language features of a variety of English written styles.

c) It will help us to select a proper way for getting the best language effects and attaining our communicative purposes.

d) It will help us to go at literary criticism.

e) It will help us to do the translation work well.

Chapter 2 Language Description & Stylistic Analysis

·There are 4 phonetic means in English:

1) stress 2) Intonation 3) pause 4) voice quality.

·Stress has several apparent stylistic and grammatical functions.

(1) The first function is for emphasis.

(2) The second function is to change the meaning or the part of speech of some words, or both.

(3) The third function is to differ some English words

(4) The fourth function is to show someone’s surprise, anger, fear, doubt, pleasure, etc..

·Intonation can be employed to express people’s happiness, sadness, certainty, hesitation, depression, etc. There are 5 pitches in phonetics:

(1) The falling pitch is used to show the meaning of definiteness, certainty and completeness.