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

Devices based on the type of connection include:
Asyndeton – is a connection between parts of a sentence or between sentences without any formal sign:
Soams turned away; he had an utter disinclination to talk, like one standing before an open grave... (Galsworthy).
Polysyndeton - is the stylistic device of connecting sentences, or phrases, or syntagms, or words by using connectives (mostly conjunc­tions and prepositions) before each component part:
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect, (Dickens).
Gap-sentence link - the conne­ction is not immediately apparent and it requires a certain mental effort to grasp the interrelation between the parts of the utterance, in other words, to bridge the semantic gap:
It was an afternoon to dream. And she took out John’s letters. (Galsworthy).
Functions: 1) to signal the introduction of inner represented speech; 2) to indicate a subjective evaluation of the facts; 3) to introduce an effect result­ing from a cause which has already had verbal expression.
Figures united by the peculiar use of colloquial constructions
Aposiopesis (break-in-the-narrative) - a stop­ping short for rhetorical effect:
Good intentions but -; You just come home or I’ll...
In the spoken variety of the language, a break in the narrative is usually caused by unwillingness to proceed; or by the supposition that what remains to be said can be understood by the implication embodied in what has been said; or by uncertainty as to what should be said.
Question in the narrative – 1) is asked and answered by one and the same person, usually the author; 2) becomes akin to a parenthetical statement with strong emotional implications. 3) sometimes gives the impression of an inti­mate talk between the writer and the reader:
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? (Dickens).
How long must it go on? How long must we suffer? Where is the end? What is the end? (Norris).