英语文体学 Chapter 1 Introduction

1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
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Modernist Movement in
Art and Literature
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Literary Criticism
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Linguistic Science
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
approach to literary texts, and established an approach to poetry which depended on close reading of the text.
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
4 The Goals, Components &
Procedure of Stylistic Inquiry
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The Nature of Stylistic
Analysis
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Wales defines stylistics as “the study of style”.
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
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Disciplines Linguistics
Literary Criticism
Stylistics
Subjects Language
Literature
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Stylistics is an area of mediation between two disciplines of linguistics and literary criticism.
(Qian Yuan)
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖English Stylistics is often regarded as a discipline that is “both old and young”.
❖Stylistics can serve as a means whereby literature and language as subjects can by a process of gradual approximation move towards both linguistics and literary criticism, and also a means whereby these disciplines can be pedagogically treated to yield different subjects.
❖William Empson ❖Seven Types of Ambiguity ❖He promoted the concept of
ambiguity as a defining linguistic characteristic of poetry.
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖Why Old？
❖English Stylistics has developed on the basis of traditional rhetoric which may be tracked back to Aristotle’s time.
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Definition of Stylistics — Stylistics is an area of study which
straddles two disciplines: literary criticism and linguistics. It takes literary discourse (text) as its object of study and use linguistics as a means to that end.
一曰典雅，二曰远奥，三曰精约，四曰显附，五 曰繁缛，六曰壮丽，七曰新奇，八曰轻靡” — 《体性》篇）
评论文体的方法（即所谓“六观”：“一观 位体，二观置辞，三观通变，四观奇正，五观事 义，六观宫商，斯术既形，则优劣见矣” — 《知音》篇）
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖ 中国也是很早就有学者注意修辞、风格和文体的 问题。
❖《易经》 “修辞立诚” ❖孔子 “辞达而已矣” “言之无文，行之不远”
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖ 刘勰《文心雕龙》 文与笔（韵文与散文）之分； 不同文体之别（“若总其归涂，则数穷八体：
English Stylistics
Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Definition of Stylistics
Emergence of Stylistics as
2 an Interdisciplinary Field of
Study
3 Two Assumption of Stylistics
❖Aristotle: Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which applies the theory and methodology of modern linguistics to the study of STYLE. It studies the use of language in specific contexts and attempts to account for the characteristics that mark the language use of individuals and social groups.
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Stylistics is neither a discipline nor a subject in its own right, but a means of relating disciplines and subjects.
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Why Young？
❖“Stylistique” first appeared in French titles, beginning in 1905 with Charles Bally’s Traite de stylistique franÇaise, which is said to be the symbol of the beginning of Modern Stylistics.
How
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖The second revolution is the one in literary criticism.
❖Ivor Armstrong Richards ❖Practical Criticism ❖He called for a more objective
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Widdowson further explains the definition from the morphological make-up of the word stylistics.
Styl-
Literary criticism
-istics
❖The first revolution is the modernist movement in art and literature, lasting from 1890 to the beginning of World War II.
❖The revolution was a break with tradition in the ways it influenced both the content and language of literature.
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖Dating back to 5 B.C., Greek orators and sophists regarded rhetoric as oratory.
❖Plato: Rhetoric is "the art of winning the soul by discourse."
What is Style?
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Widdowson defines Stylistics as “the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation”, and contends that “what distinguishes stylistics from literary criticism on the one hand and linguistics on the other is that it is essentially a means of linking the two”.
(Wang Shouyuan)
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Two “border-line” studies ❖A. those linguistically oriented but not
directly related to literary interpretation; ❖B. those claimed to deal with style but does not make use of linguistic facts and theory.
linguistics
1.1 Definition of Stylistics
❖Leech defines stylistics as “the study of the use of language in literature” and consider stylistics a “meetingground of linguistics and literary study”.
1.2 Emergence of Stylistics as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
❖ “Three Revolutions” in social sciences brought stylistics to the right track and brought about its present status.