Course Outline

Course Title: Introduction to Stylistics

Course Code: ENG-512

Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents

Introduction

• What is Stylistics?

Historical Evolution of Stylistics

• The Nature of Stylistics
• The Goals of Stylistics

The Concept of Style and Stylistics

• Meaning of Stylistics and Its Approaches
• Style as:
  • Choice
  • The Man
  • Deviation
  • Conformity
  • Period or Time
  • Situation

Types of Stylistics I

• Features of Linguistic Stylistics
  • Lexical Repetition
  • Semantico-Syntactic Level
  • Semantic/Grammatical Level
  • Phonological Level
  • Graphological Level

Types of Stylistics II

• Reader-Response Stylistics
• Affective Stylistics
• Pragmatic Stylistics
• Pedagogical Stylistics
• Forensic Stylistics

Levels of Linguistic Analysis: The Lexico-Semantic Level

• Semantics
• Lexico-Semantics
• Lexical Relations
• Types of Words
• Meanings:
  • Denotative/Connotative Meanings
  • Idiomatic Meaning

Levels of Linguistic Analysis: The Syntactic Level

• Units of Grammar
  • The Group
  • The Clause
  • The Sentence
• The Notion of Rank Shifting
• Voice

Foregrounding

• Meaning of Foregrounding
• Types of Foregrounding

Stylistic Analysis: Practical Application

• Sample Stylistic Analysis of:
  • Poem
  • Short Story
  • Novel
  • Authentic Texts:
    • Magazine
    • Newspaper
    • Song
    • Speech
    • Brochure

Recommended Books

• Chapman, R. (1973). Linguistics and Literature: An Introduction to Literary Stylistics, Rowman and Littlefield, London.
• Short, Mick. (1996). Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays, and Prose. Longman.
• Leech, Geoffrey & Mick Short (1981). Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. London/New York: Longman Group Ltd.
• Semino, Elena & Jonathan Culpeper (1995). Stylistics. In Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman & Jan Blommaert (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 513-520). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
• Wales, Katie (1989). A Dictionary of Stylistics. London/New York: Longman.
• Widdowson, H. G. (1975). Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature. London: Longman.