Inglise keele stilistika
Some speak about the
style of Hemingway, Dickens etc.
2. the manner of expressing ideas, characteristic of a literary movement or period. Style
of symbolism, romanticism
3. the use of language to pick a literary genre-comedy, novel, drama, O.D (poetic form)
etc.
4. the selective use of language that depends on spheres of human activity fiction,
scientific prose, newspapers, official documents, business correspondenc etc.
Style bears the stamp of indivual usage, that is every writer has a unique pattern/habit and
abilities that form his style.
This approach is best illustrated in the well-known victum of the french poet Georges-Louis
de Buffon ,,Style is the man himself."
Stylistics
English stylistics or the study of style has not been discussed on the same scale as french
stylistics, german or russian. The very term stylistics came into more common use in english
only some 30-40 years ago