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Stylistic analysis refers to identifying patterns of usage in speech and writing. It involves looking at texts in detail to observe their parts and functions. There are different levels of stylistic analysis, including analyzing phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. The goal is to understand an author's intended meanings and how language and style are used to achieve different purposes like instructing, informing, or persuading.

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Stylistic Analysis - Definition: Instruction

Stylistic analysis refers to identifying patterns of usage in speech and writing. It involves looking at texts in detail to observe their parts and functions. There are different levels of stylistic analysis, including analyzing phonology, grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. The goal is to understand an author's intended meanings and how language and style are used to achieve different purposes like instructing, informing, or persuading.

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Stylistic analysis – definition

Stylistic analysis in linguistics refers to the identification of patterns of usage in speech


and writing.

Stylistic analysis in literary studies is usually made for the purpose of commenting on
quality and meaning in a text.

Instruction notes for programming your video-


recorder

Information a history text book

Persuasion an advertisement or a holiday


brochure

The method of analysis can be seen as looking at the text in great detail, observing what
the parts are, and saying what function they perform in the context of the passage.

It is rather like taking a car-engine to pieces, looking at each component in detail, then
observing its function as the whole engine starts working.

These are features which are likely to occur in a text whose function is to instruct:
imperative or ‘remove the outer covering’
command

direct address ‘check voltage system before you


install the unit’

numbered points [because sequencing is important in


carrying out a procedure]

technical terms ‘piston’, ‘carburetor’, ‘spark plug’


or jargon

diagram with [an extra level of communication to aid


call-out labels understanding]

Features are dealt with in three stages, as follows:

identify — describe — explain

The features chosen from any text will be those which characterise the piece as to its
function. They will be used by the analyst to prove the initial statement which is made
about the linguistic nature of the text as a whole.

This method puports to be fairly scientific. A hypothesis is stated and then proved. It is
a useful discipline which encourages logical thought and can be transferred to many other
areas of academic study.

This is one reason why the discipline of stylistic analysis is so useful: it can be applied
to a variety of subj
Levels of Stylistics analysis:
Graphology: It is the study of hand writing. For example, as a way of learning more about
somebody's character through his writing: contracted forms, commas, stops, question marks etc.

Phonology: It is the study of sound system of a language and also describes formal rules of
pronunciation. The phonological analysis focuses on the analyzing sound patterns, utterance of
different words and forming systemic use of sound in language in order to know about the
meaning, ideas, focuses and idiosyncratic behaviors in a text. The phonological devices are
alliteration, repetition, consonance, assonance etc

Grammatical level: 1. Morphological level, 2. Syntactic level

Grammatical level includes grammar, parts of speech, clauses and phrases used in writing. It helps us to
find out subtleties of time, place and about what is done, what is going to be and what was in the past.
Through grammatical analysis of text, we can know the author’s intended meanings and foreshadowing
meanings and events.

Lexical: Lexical are total amount of vocabulary items and use of words in a piece of text. Lexical
level: it includes the study of individual words and idioms in different linguistics contexts. It involves the
study of semantics, word formation, and morphology.

Semantics: Semantics is the study of, meanings in a language. Meanings are judged through the
analysis of context, social and individual point of views. Pragmatics is also a branch of semantics
which allow us to find out the hidden meanings to be judged by the reader through the
environment created by the poet in a poem.

Pragmatics: Pragmatics is the study of invisible meaning in a piece of text spoken or written. It
discusses how we recognize the invisible meanings in a text. It is the context-based study
including linguistic context, thematic context, pre-existing knowledge and physical context of
the text.

Discourse analysis: It is the study of text language and conversations. When we concentrate in
linguistic description we focus on accurate representation of form and meaning within the text. It
also provides us chance to create a complex interpretation of a simple discourse and simple
interpretation of a complex language in order to facilitate the readers.

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