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HOW CAN ONE DESCRIBE STYLISTICS AS A CONCEPT IN ENGLISH STUDIES
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NAME: SOLABOMI ADEBANJO-ANTWI TERM PAPER: HOW CAN ONE DESCRIBE STYLISTICS AS A CONCEPT IN ENGLISH STUDIES Definition Stylistics applies linguistics to literature in the hope of arriving at analyses which are more broadly based, rigorous and objective. The pioneers were the Prague and Russian schools, but their approaches have been appropriated and extended by radical theory in recent years. Stylistics can be evaluative (i.e. judge the literary worth on stylistic criteria), but more commonly attempts to simply analyse and describe the workings of texts which have already been selected as noteworthy on other grounds. Stylistic analysis in linguistics refers to the identification of patterns of usage in speech and writing. Analyses can appear objective, detailed and technical, even requiring computer assistance, but some caution is needed. Stylistic analysis in literary studies is usually made for the purpose of commenting on quality and meaning in a text. Linguistics is currently a battlefield of contending theories,...
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