Literature

1. Galperin I.R. Stylistics. – Moscow, 1991.

2. Skrebnev Yu.M. Fundamentals of English Stylistics. – Moscow, 1994.

3. Enkvist, N.E. Linguistic Stylistics. – The Hague, 1973.

4. Esser, J. English Linguistic Stylistics. – Tübingen, 1993.

5. Wales, K. A Dictionary of Stylistics. – London, 1990.

6. Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка (Стилистика декодирования). – М., 1990.

7. Балли Ш. Французская стилистика. – М., 1961.

8. Стилистический энциклопедический словарь русского языка / Под ред. М.Н. Кожиной. – М., 2003.

Progress Check on Module I.

To pass this progress check, the student has to give answers to 10 questions. Each correct answer shall be evaluated in 10 points. The total of all correct answers shall then make 100 points.

Questions:

1. What position does linguostylistics occupy among other branches of general linguistics?

2. What is the difference between linguistic stylistics and literary stylistics?

3. What is the difference between the bookish literary language and the colloquial literary language?

4. What is the difference between an expressive means and a stylistic device?

5. Give the general characteristics of the stylistic diversity of the modern English vocabulary.

6. What kinds of old words do you know?

7. What is the place and stylistic value of terminology among other lexical strata?

8. What types of meaning of utterance are considered relevant in stylistics?

9. How can different types of meaning interact within a single utterance?

10. What is the possible result of the above interaction of meanings?

Topics for Essays

1. Development of Stylistics as a Separate Linguistic Branch

2. Schools in Linguostylistics

3. Russian Schools in Linguostylistics

4. Various Theories of Style

5. Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Stylistics: the Need to Discriminate between Them

Topics for Independent Individual Work

1. Types of language units stylistics deals with.

2. Sub-branches of general stylistics.

3. Links of linguostylistics with phonetics.

4. Links of linguostylistics with lexicology.

5. Links of linguostylistics with syntax.

6. Stylistics and semasiology.

7. Stylistics and onomaseology.

8. Stylistics and sociolinguistics.

Module II. Lexical Expressive Means and Devices (Figures of Thought)