1. What does modality imply?

a) a branch of general linguistics. It is the study and interpretation of texts in regard to their phonetic, lexical, morphological, semantic, syntactical features and to the style.

2. defined as the study of the style of different readers and types of literature and elements of language.

   
   

3. the study of written style, and how it changes within different circumstances.

   
   

4. a linguistic context is the encirclement of a language unit by other language units in speech.

   
   

91. Decoding stylistics deals ...

a) with the contrastive study of stylistic phenomenon in the level of more than one language. It analyses the stylistic resources not inherent in a separate language but at the crossroads of two languages, or two literatures and is obviously linked to the theory of translation.
b) with analyses of the text from both author’s and reader’s point of view. It takes into consideration the epoch, the historical situation, the personal, political, social, aesthetic views of the author and vocabulary, composing sentence arrangement.
c) with branch of lingua-stylistics that investigates functional styles, that is special sublanguages or varieties of the national language such as 1) the belles-lettres style; 2) the publicist style; 3) the newspaper style; 4) the scientific prose style; 5) the style of official documents.
d) with the study of special vocabulary which helps the writer to create specific stylistic coloring in a text with the help of literary and colloquial vocabulary.
92. Stylistic Semasiology…
a) describes the prosodic features of prose and poetry and variants of pronunciation in different types of speech (colloquial or oratory or recital).
b) is one of the oldest branches of stylistic studies that grew out of classical rhetoric. It has to do with the expressive order of words, types of syntactic links, figures of speech (antithesis, chiasmus, etc.).