Stylistics is a branch of linguistics that studies style, implying all possible definition of this term. It has been developing in connection with other linguistic disciplines, such as text linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, history of language, literature etc.
Stylistics aims at examining two interdependent tasks: the investigation of the special language media which by "their ontological features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the choice, and arrangement of language means are distinguished b.y the pragmatic aspect of the communication. The two objectives of stylistics are clearly discernible as two separate fields of investigation.
The special media of language which secure the desirable effect of the utterance are called stylistic devices (SD) and expressive means (EM).
The first field of investigation, i.e. SDs and EMs, necessarily touches upon such general language problems as the aesthetic function of language, synonymous ways of rendering one and ffie same idea, emotional colouring in language, the interrelation between language and thought, the individual manner of an author in making use of language and a number of other issues.
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