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

Syntagmatic styllstics
Syntagmatic stylistics (stylistics of sequences) deals with the stylistic functions of linguistic units used in syntagmatic chains, in linear combinations, not separately but in connection with other units. Syntagmatic stylistics falls into the same level determined branches.
Syntagmatic phonetics deals with the interaction of speech sounds and intonation, sentence stress, tempo.
Alliteration - recurrence of the initial consonant in two or more words in close succession:
Now or never, Last but not least; As good as gold.
With time its function broadened into prose and other types of texts.
It became very popular in titles, headlines and slogans:
Pride and Prejudice. (Austin)
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. (Dickens)
Work or wages! Workers of the world, unite!
Today alliteration is one of the favourite devices of commercials and advertising language:
New whipped cream’. No mixing or measuring. No beating or bothering.
Colgate toothpaste: The Flavor’s Fresher than ever - It’s New. Improved. Fortified.
Assonance (the recurrence of stressed vowels):
...Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aiden; I shall clasp a sainted maiden, -whom the angels name Lenore. (Poe)
Paronomasia (using words similar in sound but different in meaning with euphonic effect):
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting. (E.A. Poe’s Raven)
Rhythm and meter
The pattern of interchange of strong and weak segments is called rhythm. It’s a regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables that make a poetic text. Various combinations of stressed and un stressed syllables determine the metre. Disyllabic metres are trochee and iambus; trisyllabic are dactyl, amphibrach and anapaest:
Disyllabic metres:
1. Trochee. The foot consists of two syllables; the first is stressed: 'u. Disyllabic words with the first syllable stressed demonstrate the trochaic metre: duty, evening, honey, pretty (and many others, including the word trochee itself).
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear? (Shelley)
2. Iambus. Two syllables. The first is unstressed: u'. Examples of iambic words: mistake, prepare, enjoy, behind, again, etc.
There went three kings into the east
Three kings both great and high
And they had sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die. (Barns)
Trisyllabic metres:
3. Dactyl. The stress is upon the first syllable; the subsequent two are unstressed: 'uu. Examples of dactylic words: wonderful, beautiful, certainly, dignity, etc.
Take her up tenderly
Lift her with care,
Fashion’d so slenderly
Young and so fair. (Hood)
4 . Amphibrach. The stress falls on the second (medial) syllable of the foot; the first and the last are unstressed: u'u. Examples: umbrella, returning, continue, pretending, etc.
I sprang to the stirrup and Joris and he,
I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three. (Browning)
5. Anapaest. The last (third) syllable is stressed: uu'. Examples: understand, interfere, disagree, etc.
I am monarch of all I survey
From the central all round to the sea. (Pope)