Lecture 4 Stylistics and other fields of study

Aim: to improve students’ skills in the knowledge of intersection with other disciplines

Plan:

1. Stylistics and other Linguistic Disciplines

2. Stylistics and Literary Study

3. Linguistic versus Literary context

4. Linguistic Theories and the study of style

5. Where would style go within the Two Presented Theories

Recommendations:

1. Scrutinize the lecture and pay attention to the terms given in the lecture.
2. Pay attention to the reference literature.
3. Speculate on the implications which might arise upon the reading of the lecture.

1.Stylistics is often intersects with other areas of linguistics, namely historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and many others. All of them are different branches of language study and should be regarded as different tools from the same set and not as rivals. To illustrate the situation an example can be p0resented here:

The expression “thou lovest’ taken from the language of W. Shakespeare illustrates how different fields of study use different classifications of the same language phenomenon. In our case this expression will be classified by historians as an older form of ‘you love” and by the students of contemporary styles as a feature of a Biblical or archaic style.

Another example also points at different points of view in classification. The expression “you ain’t” can be regarded as a characteristic of a social class and thus qualified as a class marker. It also correlates with a certain range of situations and so it can be a style marker.

1. a/Stylistics can be seen as a subdepartment of linguistics when dealing with the peculiarities of literary texts.

b/ it can be a subdepartment of literary study when it draws only occasionally on linguistic methods

c/ it can be regarded as an autonomous discipline when it draws freely and eclectically, on methods from both linguistics and literary study.

2. In his “Linguistic Stylistics” N.E. Enkvist refers to certain theoretical discussions which voiced some dogmatic attitudes about the relationship b/n linguistics and literary study. To illustrate the situation, he uses the following sample sentence from Ibsen’s play “The Doll’s House”:

Nora says: “I leave the keys here”

This sentence can be linguistically chracterised as an everyday middle-class conversation, an expression which seems, against one contextual background, trivial and highly predictable. From the point of view of a literary context we have to see the sentence as an expression of Nora’s determination to break with her past, that is the sentence is seen in the light of another contextual background.

3. The most influential linguistic theories of the 20^th century, introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky, have also influenced the discussion of the study of style. The aim of this subchapter is to review the main characteristics of the two dichotomies and to see what the role of study of style within these theories was.

Linguistic dichotomy of Ferdinand de Saussure	Linguistic dichotomy of Noam Chomsky
To create a stylistic subsection Under “langue” and parole	The notion of competence should include an apparatus describing stylistic variations
To equate stylistics with parole
To add “stylolinguistic” use
To ignore this theory	Style should be considered within grammar, but not within the basic grammar, where the study of style is considered less fundamental

Control questions:

1. What is Stylistics?
2. What is the intersection with different disciplenes?

Literature:

1. Л.Л. Нелюбин. Лингвостилистика современного английского языка. М., 2007г

2.Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка. М., 1990
3. Кухаренко В.П. Семинары по стилистике. М., 1985
4. Galperin I. R. Stylistics. М., 1981
5. Кухаренко В.П. Интерпретация текста. М., 1984.
6. Разинкина Н.М, Функциональная стилистика. М., 1989.
7. Телия В.Н. Теория метафоры. М., Наука, 1990.

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