Guide to Literary Terms Group

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chinmoy
chinmoy
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Is stylistics an independent discipline?

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Posted by chinmoy on Sunday July 5, 2009 at 9:10 AM and tagged with literature, style, stylistics.

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  1. krishna-agrawala
    krishna-agrawala Teacher
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    Stylistics is study of use devices in  languages such as rhetorical figures and syntactical patterns in different contexts and applications such as advertising, politics, religion.

    Stylistics also attempt to discover common patterns of choices of individuals and groups in languages used by them in terms of features such as use of words, accents, regional dialects, use of active or passive voice.

    From the above description it is clear that it is a separate, although a very specialized discipline.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Sunday July 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM

  2. revolution
    revolution Teacher
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    It is a manner of putting thoughts into words. This term is also commonly used for the characteristics of a literary selection that concern the form of expression. It is defined by the writer’s choice of words, devices and the shaping of the sentences, so it is not an independent discipline, but is influenced by other factors.

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    Posted by revolution on Wednesday August 12, 2009 at 3:17 AM