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Introduction to Stylistics

Introduction to Stylistics. A linguistic approach to literary understanding Zhang Huahong School of Foreign Studies.

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Introduction to Stylistics

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  1. Introduction to Stylistics A linguistic approach to literary understanding Zhang Huahong School of Foreign Studies

  2. Concepts under consideration1.Language is a mirrorof the emotion of the user; how one speaks reflects one’s preference, and attitude towards man and nature in general.2. The meaning of languageis affected by the linguistic context---situation:when, where, towhom, inwhat way, andfor what purposeit is used.3. Meaning lies in comparison-----from general to specific, reflecting the depth of cognition, as in telling plant, flower, rose, and Chinese rose.

  3. Concepts under consideration4. Evaluative language reflects results of mental activities and isabstractin nature; descriptive language reflects the results of human perception through the five sense organs and therefore isconcretein nature.5. Stylistics as a linguistic approach to literary criticism, involving the features of linguistic study and literary study, our attention must be paid to the combination of the historical study of the author in terms of such cultural factors

  4. Concepts under consideration as family and social background, social andeconomic status, religious belief, pursuit of value judgment embodied in his major literary works, and the linguistic features of his works, especially the target text you choose for study, so as to interpret the literary significance of the text by means of discovery of the author's linguistic preference in the text. In a word, this is a parallel effort of historical and textual study.

  5. Concepts under consideration6. Academic study means to explore for discovery by observation and analysis. 7. Reading a text in nature is an observation to collect as data linguistic features of the target text, which is called linguistic description.8. Linguistic description focuses on the frequency of the linguistic features, and on the violation of the linguistic norms, so as to show the author’slinguistic preference in the text as the evidence to interpret its literary significance.

  6. 1 The Concern of Stylistics1.1.Stylistics 1.2. Language 1.3. Aspects of the Speech Event 1.4. Language Varieties and Function 1.5. Style 1.6. The Study of Style 1.7. The Concern of Stylistic Study 1.8. Stylistics and Other Spheres of Study

  7. 2 The Need for Stylistic Study2.1. Stylistic Study Helps Cultivate a Sense of Appropriateness 2.2. Stylistic Study Sharpens the Understanding & Appreciation of Literary Works 2.3. Stylistic Study Helps Achieve Adaptation in Translation

  8. 3 Varieties of Language3.1. Two Kinds of Varieties 3.2. Dialects 3.3. Registers 3.4. The Mutual Dependence Between Register and Dialect 3.5. The Social Meaning of Language Varieties

  9. 4 Linguistic Description4.1. The Aims of Stylistics in Linguistic Description 4.2. Levels of Language 4.3. Stylistic Features 4.4. Procedure of Linguistic Description 4.5. The Practical Description and Analysis in This Book

  10. Suggested Format of Course Paper I. Abstract II. Key words III. Body 1. Literature Review a. Brief account of the author of the text b. Brief account of the text c. Previous studies on the text 2. Research question 3. Research procedures 4. Linguistic description a. Lexical features b. Syntactic features c. Phonological features d. Semantic features/figures of speech 5. Relation between Linguistics Features and the Theme IV. Reference

  11. Format of Reference • 主要参考文献条目排列顺序如下： • [序号]作者.文献题名[文献类型标识]*.(出版地:) • 出版者，出版年.起始页码.例： • Reference: • [1]Levinson, S. Pragmatics [M]. Cambridge: • Cambridge University Press, 1983. 15-20. • [2]方永德.美国英语中的种族贬语[J].外国语， • 1995(1):68-72. • *参考文献类型标识： • [N]报纸文章；[J]期刊文章； [M]专著； • [D]学位论文；[C]论文集；

  12. References Brown, Curtis: 2008. Philosophy of Language Brumfit, C. J. & Carter, R. A. 1986. Literature and Language Teaching. London: Oxford. Crystal, D. 1979. Investigating English Style. London: Longman. Eagleton, T. 2004. Literary Theory. London: Blackwell. Halliday, M.A.K.1964. ‘Descriptive Linguistics in Literary Studies’,in D.C. Freeman (ed.) (1970): 57-72. Leech, G.N. 1969. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman. Leech, G.N. 2003. Style in Fiction. New York: Longman. Peer, W.V. 2004. Stylistics and Psychology: investigation of foregrounding Talib, Ismail S. 2008 Literary Stylistics Thornborrow, J. & Wareing, S. 2000. Patterns in Language. London: Routledge. Tinkler, John F. 2008. History and Development of Prose Style Widdowson, H.G.1975. Stylistics and the Teaching of literature. London: Longman. Wright, L. & Hope, J. 2000. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook. London: Routledge. 徐有志. 2005. 《英语文体学教程》.北京:高等教育出版社.

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