DESCRIPTION & 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, both in literary and 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.

CONTENTS

• What is Style? (Traditional, modern', and linguistic concept of style)
• What is Stylistics?
• Branches of Stylistics
• Levels of Analysis.
•                         Phonological Level
•                         Sounds of Poetry
•                         Metre in poetry
•                         Style, Rhythm in Pros
• Syntactical Level.
•                         Nouns, Verbs
•                         Adjectives, Adverbs etc
•                         Phrases, the Clause
•                         Clause Complexing
•                         Mood & Modality
•                         Theme and Rheme
•                         Transitivity and Meaning
• Figurative Language.
• Foregrounding.
• Parallelism.
• Norm & Deviation,
• Point of View.
• Speech & thought Presentation
• Discourse,
•                         Cohesion
•                         Textuality
•                         Cause relations.
•         Pragmatic Analysis of Literature
•                         Speech Acts
•                         Deixies
•                         Implicatures

READINGS

• 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

Time Table

Marks Distribution

Mid Term: 30 Marks (Term Paper)

Sessionals: 20 Marks ( Quiz+ Assignment on maintaining a dictionary of Linguistic terms)

Final: 50 Marks (Written Exam)

RESEARCH PROJECT

A research project comprising 3500-4000 words in the field of the study.