The Purposes (Aims) of the Course of Stylistics and Stylistic Analysis

Model B.

Encoder   chooses items from the code		Decoder interprets items of the code
Transmitter speaks writes	Signal sounds wave marks of a script	Receiver listens reads

The message is the common ground for communicants in an act of communication, in the exchange of information between two participants of the communicative act –

the addresser (the supplier of information, the speaker, the writer) and

the addressee (the receiver of the information, the listener, the reader).

Problems concerning the choice of the most appropriate language means and their organization into a message, from the viewpoint of the addresser, are the centre of attention of the individual style study.

The individual style study puts particular emphasis on the study of an individual author’s style, it looks for correlations between the creative concepts of the author and the language of his works.

In terms of information theory the author’s stylistics may be termed as the stylistics of the encoder and the supplier of the information, the addresser as the encoder.

The addressee in this case plays the part of the decoder of the information contained in the message and the problems connected with the adequate reception of the message (without any informational losses or deformations, i.e. with adequate decoding, are the concern of decoding stylistics.

M. Riffaterre states that “Stylistics will be a linguistics of the effects of the message, of the output of the act of communication, of its attention-compelling function.”

Thus language is regarded in the above quotation from a pragmatic point of view. Stylistics in that case is regarded as a language science which deals with the results of the act of communication.

1. Stylistics gives students of English some major concepts in the theory of verbal art, it broadens the theoretical horizons of a language learner.

2. Stylistics has a practical value: it teaches students to master the language working out a conscious approach to language.

3. The purpose of stylistic analysis is to help the students to observe the interaction of the form and matter, to see how through the infinite variety of SDs and their multifarious functions the message of the author is brought home to the reader.

4. Stylistic analysis teaches a language learner the skill of competent reading, on the one hand, and proprieties of situational language usage, on the other.

5. Stylistics teaches the reader the skill of appreciation, it enables him to derive more information, greater aesthetic pleasure on the basis of studying the main code of literature – the national language.

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