Answer to Question #235748 in English for KAT

Question

What is stylistics? Differentiate between literary and linguistic stylistics? 

Answer 1

Stylistics is the study of style. Ufot sees stylistics primarily as the analysis of the

language of texts. Ufot argues that even though it is applicable to all kinds of texts,

whether literary or non-literary, stylistics appears to be more frequently associated with literary

texts. In fact, traditionally, as conspicuously seen in its checkered history, the preoccupation of

stylistics has been the language of literature. In this light, some scholars often typify literary

stylistics as a stylistics that focuses on the language of literary text(s), distinguishing it from a

non-literary stylistics which is concerned with the analysis of non-literary text(s)

we have literary stylistics (which in addition to its aforementioned

description in paragraph one emphasizes the use of "linguistic techniques" in the interpretation of

texts) and linguistic stylistics (which as indicated in paragraph one emphasizes the use of linguistic models or tools in textual analysis). The text can be literary or non-literary. What are

the differences between these two approaches? This paper sets about to present each of the approaches. Citing considerable examples, it seeks to describe the two approaches by means of empirical review of works that have employed the approaches, thereby highlighting the observed salient differences between the two approaches .

On the other hand he linguistic approach to stylistics has to do with the linguistic study of literature. This description is a rephrasing of the title of a locus classicus example of an essay that discusses the linguistic approach to stylistics, written by M.A.K. Halliday entitled 'The Linguistic Description of Literary Texts'. Halliday .Linguistics studies language scientifically. It studies style as well in an impersonal and objective manner. Aitchison states that “the linguistic analysis of literary language is known as stylistics… the words style and stylistics have acquired somewhat specialised, narrow usage of linguistics applied to literature