Part I introduction 6 I. General notes on style and stylistics 6

PART V SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 174
A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 174
B. PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE COMPOSITION OF SPANS OF UTTERANCE LARGER THAN THE SENTENCE 176
Supra-Phrasal Units 177
The Paragraph 181
C. COMPOSITIONAL PATTERNS OF SYNTACTICAL ARRANGEMENT 185
Stylistic Inversion 186
Detached Construction 188
Parallel Construction 190
Chiasmus (Reversed Parallel Construction) 191
Repetition 193
Enumeration 197
Suspense 198
Climax (Gradation) 200
Antithesis 202
D. PARTICULAR WAYS OF COMBINING PARTS OF THE UTTERANCE (LINKAGE) 205
Asyndeton 206
Polysyndeton 206
The Gap- Sentence Link 207
E. PARTICULAR USE OF COLLOQUIAL CONSTRUCTIONS 209
Ellipsis 211
Break-in-the-Narrative (Appsiopesis) 213
Question-in-the-Narrative 214
Represented Speech 215
a) Uttered Represented Speech 217
b) Unuttered or Inner Represented Speech 220
F. STYLISTIC USE OF STRUCTURAL MEANING 222
Rhetorical Questions 223
Litotes 224
PART VI FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 226
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 226
A. THE BELLES-LETTRES STYLE 228
1. LANGUAGE OF POETRY 229
a) Compositional Patterns of Rhythmical Arrangement 230
Metre and Line 230
The Stanza 234
Free Verse and Accented Verse 237
b) Lexical and Syntactical Features of Verse 240
2. EMOTIVE PROSE 246
3. LANGUAGE OF THE DRAMA 256
B. PUBLICISTS STYLE 262
1. ORATORY AND SPEECHES 263
2. THE ESSAY 267
3. JOURNALISTIC ARTICLES 269
C. NEWSPAPER STYLE 270
1. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS 272
2. ADVERTISEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 275
BIRTHS 275
3. THE HEADLINE 277
4. THE EDITORIAL 279
D. SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE 281
E. THE STYLE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 285
FINAL REMARKS 291

. Introduction
1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics . . 7 ............ 9
2. Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD) .......... 25
3. General Notes on Functional Styles of Language ...... '. . . . 32
4. Varieties of Language ” t ................... 35
5. A Brief Outline of the Development of the English Literary (Standard)
Language t * t ^ t ......................... 41
6. Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View .............. 57