Lecture Stylistics as a science. Problems of stylistic research. Plan

Neutral Negative/degraded
colloquial; neologisms; jargon; slang;
nonce-words; vulgar words.
Special mention is made of terms.
Paradigmatic syntax has to do with the sentence paradigm: complete­ness of sentence structure, communicative types of sentences, word order, and type of syntactical connection.
Completeness of sentence structure
Ellipsis: ‘Were they interesting books?’
‘Don’t know. Haven’t read them. Looked pretty hopeless (Christie).
“I love that girl.’
‘You what?’
‘I love her, you deaf?’ (McBain).
‘Will u and Johnnie come in and have drinks with us this evening, Maureen/’
‘Love to’. (Christie).
‘Stop it, Ernie,’ she said.
‘Sha’n’t,’ said Ernie and continued. (Christie).
‘Perhaps, perhaps not’. (Clifford).,
Aposiopesis (a sudden breaking off in the midst if a sentence as if from inability or unwillingness proceed): KEITH (letting go her arms): My God! If the police come – find me here – (He dashes to the door. Then stops). (Galsworthy).
One-member nominative sentences: ‘London. For everywhere. Implacable November weather’.
‘The horror! The flight! The exposure! The police!.... (Dreiser).
Absence of auxiliary elements: auxiliary verbs, articles, prepositions, conjunctions:
‘Where was he born?’
‘London’. (Kanin)
‘What time did u get in?’
‘Four’ (Amis).
Redundancy: repetition of sentence parts, syntactic tautology (prolepsis), polysyndeton:
very, very good; for ever and ever; a little, little girl.
‘Yeah, uh, you’ve been busy busy busy busy, haven’t you (Pendelton).
Prolepsis:
‘Miss Tillie Webster, she slept forty days and nights without waking up.’ (O. Henry)
Jack Sprat's pig,
He was not very little.
He was not very big...
Little Miss Muffet
She sat on a tuffet...
Ellen Adair she loved me well,
Against her father's and mother's will... (Tennyson)
The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe And a scornful laugh laughed he. (Longfellow)