Plan introduction

PLAN


INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………..…...3
MAIN PART

1. 
   The stylistic function of language………………………………………..5
   
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   The types of stylistics…………………………………………………….9
   
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   Oratorical style in stylistics……………………………………………....12
   
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   The stylistics of the English language…………………………………....17
   

5. What are oratory skills or oratorical skills? ……………………………..19
6. Main components for oratory …………………………………………....26
CONCLUSION……………………………………………….……………..33
REFERENCES……………………………………………………………...34

Introduction

Relevance: Languages have different means of communication, some of which are verbal and others nonverbal. For the sake of expressing, stating, asking, requesting and emphasizing certain types of information, we sometimes tend to use some of these verbal or nonverbal means either directly or indirectly. Therefore, scholars and rhetoricians have studied most of these means and the properties that can lead speakers to select a highly effective discourse in order to get a successful understanding of meaning in its literal sense as well as to choose the correct lexis to unambiguously comprehend the intended meaning. They also have tackled the ways of getting a persuasive discourse by using different aspects, some of which are syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, poetic, stylistic, etc. One of these ways that are used to get a persuasive speech and to sway an audience's opinion is the style or art of oration[¹]. Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in context, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language. A variety, in this sense, is a situationally distinctive use of language. For example, the language of advertising, politics, religion, individual authors, etc., or the language of a period in time, all are used distinctively and belong in a particular situation. In other words, they all have “place” or are said to use a particular 'style'[²].


The aim: Modern stylistics uses the tools of formal linguistic analysis coupled with the methods of literary criticism; its goal is to try to isolate characteristic uses and functions of language and rhetoric rather than advance normative or prescriptive rules and patterns. Stylistics has a practical value: teaching students to master the language, and working out a conscious approach to language. Stylistics deals with individual style - expressive means and stylistic devices peculiar to a given The three aims of the orator, according to Cicero, are "docere, delectare, et movere." That is: to prove your thesis to the audience, to delight the audience, and to emotionally move the audience.writer, which makes that writer's works or even utterances easily recognizable[³].