Eng 22: Introduction to Stylistics Syllabus

I.                     General Perspective

A.      Defining Stylistics

B.      Scope and Object of Studies

C.      Related Discipline

D.      Review of General Terms

II.                   History of Stylistics

A.      Practical Criticism vs. New Criticism

B.      Formalist vs. Structuralist

III.                  Register in Stylistics

A.      Register

1.       Dialect

2.       Diatype

B.      Formality Scale

1.       Frozen

2.       Formal

3.       Consultative

4.       Casual

5.       Intimate

IV.                Semiotic Structure

A.      Field

B.      Tenor

C.      Mode

VIII.             Levels of Language

A.      Lexis and Semantics (Meaning)

B.      Syntax and Morphology (Grammar)

C.      Phonology and Graphology (Speech and Writing)

IX.                 Intertextuality

X.                   Literary Stylistics

A.      Tense

B.      Orwell’s Method

C.      Poetic

D.      Emotive

XI.                 Liturgical Language

XII.                Gender in Language

XIII.              Stylistics Application

A.      Cognitive poetics

B.      Dialectics

C.      Depiction

D.      Rhetorics