Stylistics developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the traditions of fostering the mother tongue, from rhetoric and from the interpretation of literature. Correspondingly, the discipline is quite broad: (a) methodically, stylistics is...

Frequent use of derived nouns instead of verbs, depending on the reforming and reduction of sentences to groups of nouns. Characteristic elements of style are nominalization, e.g. the breakdown of talks instead of talks break down, compounds,...

Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in context. For example, the language of advertising, politics, religion, individual authors, etc., or the language of a period in time, all belong in a particular...