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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 a procedure for the analysis of texts; (b) normatively, stylistics is a directive for what is right in the use of language; (c) descriptively, stylistics is a text linguistic discipline, which explains the style of a text and sets it in relation to other features of the text (style). This newest branch of stylistics forms the foundation for scientific analysis of style as well as for practical stylistics, the standardization of style, and the fostering of the mother tongue. The results of functional stylistics are particularly important for research into the connection between the style and the function of a text (or type of text). Since functionally explicable properties of style are also fundamental for rhetorical texts, stylistics overlaps here with its ancestors and with the modern neighboring discipline of rhetoric.
References
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Bibliographies
Bailey, R. and D.M.Burton. 1968. English stylistics: a bibliography. Cambridge, MA.
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Journal
Language and Literature.
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