KHAZAR UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
COURSE SYLLABUS
BASICS OF STYLISTICS
Spring - 2015
Irina Orujova
Number of Credit Points: 3
Number of Hours per Week: 4
Instructor: I. Orujova
Course books:
1. I.R. Galperin. Stylistics. Moscow, 1977
2. V.A. Kukharenko. A Book of Practice in Stylistics. Moscow, 1986
3. И.В. Арнольд. Стилистика современного английского языка. Ленинград, 1981
Additional books:
4. V.A. Kukharenko. Seminars in Style. M., 1971
5. Mick Short. Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Longman, 1996
6. G. Leech, M. Short. Style in Fiction. Longman, 2007
Pre-requisites:
Introduction to Linguistics, Grammar Advanced and Pre-Advanced, ESL
Course Description:
The course is a part of general science about language – Linguistics. It is designed for
intermediate to upper – intermediate students majoring in Translation Studies and
Teaching English and Literature as a Second Language. It provides the students with the
comprehensive notion of the main phonetic, lexical and syntactical expressive means and
stylistic devices necessary for such interrelated courses as Creative Writing and
Academic Writing. It also focuses on gaining practical skills in finding and using such
devices in the original texts. The variety of expressive means (EM), stylistic devices (SD)
and other elements of style, such as the diversity of functional styles of the English
language and of stylistic layers of the English vocabulary will be analyzed during classes.
The insight into the number of frameworks of linguistic choices and strategies that can be
used in various genres of texts will also be presented. For this purpose the texts from a
number of different genres will be discussed.
Course Objectives
- Introduce the students to the framework of stylistic analysis
- Gaining the knowledge of expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD),
functional styles and stratification of vocabulary and their characteristic features
- Make the students familiar with current research in the field of Stylistics
Course Requirements
1) Preparing the readings carefully for each class meetings and coming prepared to
discuss issues arising from the readings
2) Participating actively in class discussions and analysis
3) Handing in assignments on time, making planned presentations and writing
mandatory quizzes
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the semester the students are expected:
- to be able to distinguish the major stylistic devices and expressive means within
the framework of the various texts belonging to different functional styles;
-
to distinguish between the functional styles of the texts and provide the
information on the characteristic features of them;
to be able to provide an extensive analysis of the texts, bearing in mind the
functional style, stratification of the vocabulary, and expressive means and
stylistic devices.
Attendance Policy:
For every two unexcused absences, one (1) point will be deducted from the grade
point average. Students must arrive at class on time and remain for the entire period
unless they are suddenly ill or have notified the instructor before the class that they will
need to leave early. Frequent tardiness will not be acceptable.
Academic Dishonesty:
Plagiarism and cheating are crimes and will be severely penalized, including the
expulsion of a student from the university.
Grading Scale:
100% - 90% - A
89% - 80% - B
79% - 70% - C
69% -60% - D
59% - below – F/1
Course Grading:
Class Participation
Activities
Quiz
Mid-term Exam
Final exam
10%
10%
10%
35%
35%
Wee
ks
I
Dates
Contents
Support material
26-30
Jan./
Feb.
2-6
Feb.
The Subject of Stylistics. Stylistics of Language.
Stylistics of Speech.
9-13
Feb.
Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View. Varieties of
Language
LG pp.3-6
16-20
Feb.
Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary.
Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial
Vocabulary.
Special Literary Vocabulary. Terms, Poetic, Archaic,
Obsolescent, Obsolete words, Barbarisms and
Foreignisms.
Special Colloquial Vocabulary. Slang, Jargonisms,
Professionalisms, Dialectal Words and Vulgarisms.
LG pp. 7-9
9-13
March
Functional Styles of the English Language. General
Classification.
LG pp.15-17
VIII
16-20
March
Functional Style of English. Characteristics of the
Functional Styles of the English Language.
LG pp. 17-22
IX
23-27
March
30-3
March
April
II
The Notion of Style. Expressive Means (EM) and
Stylistic Devices (SD)
Lectures by
Galperin (LG)
pp. 1-2
LG pp. 2-3
Hrs
4
4
III
IV
V
23-27
Feb.
VI 2-6
March
4
4
LG pp. 9-11
4
LG pp. 11-14
4
VII
X
XI
6-10
April
XII
13-17
April
XIII
20-24
April
4
4
Mid – term examination
4
Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.
Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Rhyme and Rhythm. Lexical
Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Interaction of
Different Types of Lexical Meaning.
Interaction of Dictionary and Contextual Meaning.
Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony. Interaction of Other Types
of Lexical Meanings. Pun, Zeugma, Interjections and
Exclamatory Words.
Epithet, Oxymoron, Antonomasia. Intensification of a
Certain Feature of a Thing or Phenomenon. Simile,
Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole
LG pp. 23-25
LG pp. 28-32
4
Peculiar Use of Set Expressions. Cliché, Proverbs and
Sayings, Epigrams, Quotations and Allusions.
LG pp. 32-35
4
4
LG pp. 25-28
4
27-1
April/
May
Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.
Supra – Phrasal Units. The Paragraph. Stylistic Inversion.
Detached and Parallel Constructions.
XV
4-8
May
Repetition , Enumeration, Suspense, Climax, Antithesis,
Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Ellipsis, Represented Speech,
Litotes and Rhetorical Questions
XVI
11-15
May
XIV
Final examination
LG pp. 35-38
4
LG pp. 38-44
4