Course Tittle: Stylistics

Course Code: 335

Credit Hours: 03

DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES

Aims & Objectives:

This course introduces the students to the modern concepts of style as distinguished from the traditional one. The course will introduce the notion of style to the student, particularly, the non-literary discourses from a purely linguistic perspective. This also includes a comparison of style in literary and non-literary discourses in the context of genre leading to the identification of different registers.

Course Contents

Concepts of Register

Concept of Genre

Levels of Analysis

Phonology

Graphology

Lexis

Grammar

Discourse

Language of Advertisement

Language of Recipes

Language of Legal Documents

Language of Religion

Language of Conversation

Language of Unscripted Commentary

Language of Newspaper Reporting

Difference between Literary and non-literary Text    

Reading List

Carter, R. (1982).Language and Literature.

Chapman, R. (1975). Linguistics and Literature 

Crystal, D. and Davy, D. (1969).Investigating English Style.

Leech, G. (1969). A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry.

Widdowson, H.G. (1992).Practical Stylistics