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1、EnglishStylisticsAnswerstoQuestionsandTasksI.Introduction1.Whatisstylistics?Whyisitconsideredtobeasub-branchoflinguistics?Stylisticsisasciencedealingwithstyles.Itisrelegatedtolinguisticsbecauseitstudiesstylesusingthetheoriesandmethodsofmodernlinguistics.Itisconcer
2、nedwiththecharacteristicuseoflanguagebyanindividualoragroup.2.Whatisstyle?Stylereferstothehabitualuseoflanguagetypicalofanindividualoragroup,includingtheeffectivenessoflanguageuseinaparticularcontext.3.Canwecallthecompositionswrittenbyaclassofmiddleschoolstudentsd
3、ifferentstyles?Explain.Itisnotappropriatetocallthecompositionsofstudentsofaclass‘differentstyles’becausestudentsarestilllearningthelanguageandtheyhavenotformedalinguistichabityet.As theyprogressinlanguagelearningwithtime,theywillimprovetheirabilityofusingthelangua
4、ge.Asaresult,thelanguagetheyproducewillbedifferent.Onlywhentheyhavearelativelyfixedwaysofusingthelanguagecanwerefertotheirwritingsdifferentstyles.4.Nameafewtypesoflanguagehabituallyusedbyagroup.Thelanguagethatagroupofpeoplehabituallyuseisusuallyknownasavariety—the
5、characteristicuseoflanguageinaparticularcontextforaspecificpurpose,suchasnewsreport,businessletter,advertisement,poetry,play,shortstoryandsoon.5.Inwhatwaycanstylisticshelpusinourcomprehensionofthetext?Averyimportantpartofcomprehensionistogetthemeaningofatext.Agram
6、marknowledgecanonlyhelpustounderstandthetextintermsofitssurfacemeaning.Thestudyofstyle,however,candeepenourunderstandingandleadustogobeyondthesurfaceanddigoutthehiddenmeaningorthewriter’sintendedmeaningsuchasclassbackground,socialstatus,region,occupation,education
7、,politicalattitude,etc.6.Howcanstylisticshelpusinourstudyofaforeignlanguage? Languageisthemostimportantmeansofcommunication.Welearnaforeignlanguagebecauseweneeditincommunication.Themostdifficultprobleminlanguagelearningistheappropriateuse.Makingcorrectsentencesdoe
8、snotguaranteeoureffectiveuse.Withoutasenseofstyle,itisimpossibletoachieveeffectivecommunication.Asaforeignlanguagelearner,wecannotacquirethissenseofstyl
