The Basic Notions and Categories of Stylistics

Contrastive Stylistics of the Ukrainian and English Languages as a Branch of Linguistics

style
	the theory of information
		the theory of communicative acts
			different systems of Stylistics classification
				General Stylistics, Special Stylistics, Contrastive Stylistics
					Subject and Object of its investigation

Lecture №2

The Basic Notions and Categories of Stylistics

1. language;

2. speech;

3. norm of language;

4. varieties of language: the spoken and written varieties;

5. literary language;

6. context;

7. Expressive means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SDs);

8. foregrounding of information;

9. functional style.

Lecture №3

Stylistic Classification of the English and Ukrainian Vocabulary

1. archaic words; 2. poetical words; 3. neologisms; 4. terms; 5. foreignisms, barbarisms, exotisms.

6. professionalisms; 7. slang; 8. dialectical words; 9. jargon; 10. vulgarisms; 11. neologisms.

Lecture №4