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A. The history of stylistics can be traced using a graphic organizer. It explores how readers interact with and are affected by language in texts. Stylistics developed as linguistics and psychology became established in the 20th century. Key figures include Roman Jakobson, who linked Russian Formalism and American New Criticism, and Michael Halliday, who studied language function and style in literary works. Stylistics is the study of linguistic style, whereas theoretical linguistics studies linguistic form.

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History of Stylistic

A. The history of stylistics can be traced using a graphic organizer. It explores how readers interact with and are affected by language in texts. Stylistics developed as linguistics and psychology became established in the 20th century. Key figures include Roman Jakobson, who linked Russian Formalism and American New Criticism, and Michael Halliday, who studied language function and style in literary works. Stylistics is the study of linguistic style, whereas theoretical linguistics studies linguistic form.

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A. Using an appropriate graphic organizer, trace the history of stylistics.

Refer to task A’s graphic organizer rubric.

History of Stylistics

 Stylistics explores how readers interact with the language of (mainly literary) texts in order to explain how we
understand, and are affected by texts when we read them.

 he development of Stylistics, given that it combines the use of linguistic analysis with what we know about the
psychological processes involved in reading, depended (at least in part) on the study of Linguistics and Psychology
(both largely twentieth-century phenomena) becoming reasonably established.

Roman Jakobson Michael Hallida

He had been an active member of the Russian He is an important figure in the development
Formalists and the Prague School, before
immigrating to America in the 1940s. He British stylistics. His 1971 study Lingui
brought together Russian Formalism and Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into
American New Criticism in his Closing Language of William Golding's 'The Inherit
Statement at a conference on stylistics at Indiana is a key essay. One of Halliday's contributi
University in 1958. Published as Linguistics and has been the use of the term register to exp
Poetics in 1960, Jakobson's lecture is often the connections between language and
credited with being the first coherent context. For Halliday register is distinct fr
formulation of stylistics, and his argument was dialect. Dialect refers to the habitual language
that the study of poetic language should be a a particular user in a specific geographical
sub-branch of linguistics. The poetic function social context. Register describes the choi
was one of six general functions of language he made by the user, choices which depend
described in the lecture. three variables: field ("what the participant
actually engaged in doing", for instan
discussing a specific subject or topic), te
(who is taking part in the exchange) and m

Stylistics is the study of linguistic style, whereas


(theoretical) Linguistics is the study of linguistic form. The
term 'style' is used in linguistics to describe the choices
which language makes available to a user, above and beyond
the choices necessary for the simple expression of a
meaning. Linguistic form can be interpreted as a set of
possibilities for the production of texts, and thereby
linguistic form makes possible linguistic style.

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