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

Stylistics is that branch of linguistics, which studies the principles, and effect of choice and usage of different language elements in rendering thought and emotion under different conditions of communication. Therefore it is concerned with such issues as
1) the aesthetic function of language;
2) expressive means in language;
3) synonymous ways of rendering one and the same idea;
4) emotional colouring in language;
5) a system of special devices called stylistic devices;
6) the splitting of the literary language into separate systems called style;
7) the interrelation between language and thought;
8) the individual manner of an author in making use of the language
2. Stylistics of Language and speech.
The stylistics of language analyses permanent or inherent stylistic properties of language elements.
The stylistics of speech studies stylistic properties, which appear in a context, and they are called adherent.
So stylistics of language describes and classifies the inherent stylistic colouring of language units. Stylistics of speech studies the composi­tion of the utterance—the arrangement, selection and distribution of different words, and their adherent qualities.
3. Types of stylistic research and branches of stylistics
Literary and linguistic stylistics
They have some meeting points or links in that they have common objects of research. Both study the common ground of:
1) the literary language from the point of view of its variability;
2) the idiolect (individual speech) of a writer;
3) poetic speech that has its own specific laws.
The points of difference proceed from the different points of analysis. While lingua-stylistics studies
• Functional styles (in their development and current state).
• The linguistic nature of the expressive means of the language, their systematic character and their functions.