"a branch of linguistics which studies the feature of the distinctive uses or varieties of language in different situations. It tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language."The Scope Of Stylistics :
There are many styles that are open to stylistic investigation. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says stylistics look at language of socialization, the production and reception of meaning, critical discourse analysis and literary criticism. Wikipedia continuing says:
Other features of stylistics include the use of dialogue, including regional accents and people's dialects, descriptive language, the use of grammar such as the active or passive voice, the distribution of sentence lengths, the use of particular language registers, etc.General stylistics deals with the non-dialectical varieties found within the language. In other words, it deals with situational or contextual use of language, that is, variation according to use. It also includes variation of language according to field of discourse; variation according to mode of discourse and finally, variation according to style of discourse (Ike,2005).
Literary stylistics, on the other hand, deals with language use in literature; that is, variations characteristics of literature as a genre and of the style of individual authors that have made their mark in literature. often you hear people talk about the style of Shakespeare, Milton, Achebe, Soyinka etc.
Stylo-stylistics deals with the qualification of stylistic patterns. It studies the statistical structure of literary texts, often using computers.
Phonostylistics studies is the expressive or aesthetic function of sounds.
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