General Information
Course name
ECTS
Credits
Semester
Stylistics
5
summer
Aims
The aim of the subject is to aid the teaching process by which the students become aware
of the richness and variety of English stylistic means of communication. The students should
acquaint themselves with the concepts of functional styles, stylistic semasiology, phonetic,
lexical, morphological and syntactic expressive means and stylistic devices. The students
should be able to stylistically identify, classify and describe the elements of language used in
speech.
Contents
Stylistics, its aims, tasks, types, connections with other linguistic branches, its perspectives.
Functional Styles. Bookish and Colloquial.
The style of official documents, its characteristics.
The scientific prose, its characteristics.
The newspaper style, its characteristics.
The publicistic style, its characteristics.
The belletristic style, its characteristics.
The colloquial styles, their characteristics.
Stylistic Lexicology.
Morphological Stylistics.
Phonetic and Graphic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.
Stylistic Semasiology.
Lexico-semantic Stylistic Devices.
Figures of Substitution.
Stylistic Semasiology.
Figures of Combination.
Stylistic Syntax. S
yntactic Stylistic Devices.
Evaluation
Written tests, presentations on functional styles, examination.
A- 87-100%
B- 77-86%
C- 69-76% D- 61-68%
E- 56-60% FX- 55 and less
Bibliography
Bradford T. Stull. The Elements of Figurative Language. -London: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Turner G.W. Stylistics.-London: Penguin Books, 1973.
Wales K. A Dictionary of Stylistics.-London: Longman, 2001.
Wright L., Hope J. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook.-London: Routledge,1995.
Yefimov L., Yasinetskaya E. Practical Stylistics of English.-Vynnyttsa: Nova Knyha, 2004.240p.