Towards a Stylistic Analysis of Text as Discourse.pdf

1、Stylistics is supposed to have been in eclipse for decades since the formalist stylistics was severely criticized.As a result,few people have noticed the developments in stylistics in the last decades or few would like t

2、o make trouble to explore the developments in this area since those developments are not so evident compared with the developments in other areas of the linguistics.But the fact is that stylistics has continued to make p

3、rogress.With the quick development in other areas of linguistics,stylistics has also taken on a new look in the last two decades.This thesis tries to find out the most important features characterizing the development of

4、 stylistics in the last two decades.Generally speaking,stylistics in the last two decades can be seen as discourse-based.In order to make my idea well grounded,I have drawn on various works on linguistics per se and appl

5、ied linguistics,together with stylistics and literary theory.It may be argued that the combination of so many elements is indeed a heady brew,but it is a necessary combination in order to overcome some of the problem enc

6、ountered in the traditional stylistics.After an integrated review of the immense developments in linguistics,on which the new approach is based,this thesis discusses some most important features in discourse-based stylis