英语文体学讲稿

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1、Chapterone:IntroductiontoStylistics(4hrs)Definitionofstylistics:Stylisticsisaspecialkindofsubject,whichappliesthetechniquesandconceptsofmodernlinguisticstothestudyofliterarytexts.Anditisbasedupontheideathattheexaminationoranalysisofthelanguageofaliterarytextcanbeameanstoafuller

2、understandingandappreciationofthewriter^artisticachievement.Sostylisticsstudieslanguageasitisusedinliterarytexts,withtheaimofrelatingittotheartisticfunctionsoflanguageuse.Stylisticsisbasedupontheideathatallartisticworkshavecontentandform,usuallythecontentcandecidetheform,butthe

3、otherwayround,theformcanhavecounter-effectuponthecontent.Itisalsotrueofliteraryworks.Thisdefinitiondoesnotmeanthatthelearningofstylisticsdemandsagreatdealoflinguisticknowledge.Instead,itrequiresthelearnertobefamiliarwithsomebasicconceptsandtraditionaltermsingrammar,phonetics,an

4、drhetoric.Andofcourse,thelearnershouldalsobecuriousandmakefulluseofanexplicitunderstandingoflanguagenotjustlanguageusedinthegivenliterarycontext.Stylisticstudy/analysisStylisticsmakesforawideninganddeepeningoftheaesthetictaste.LeoSpitzer'sinsistenceisthatthesmallestdetailoftheu

5、sedbyinaparticularliterarytextcanunlockthesoulofaliterarywork.Thatis,bynoticingthesmallestdetail,thereadercanunderstandandexplainhowaparticulareffectormeaningisachieved.Thenthereaderismorelikelytoappreciatethecreationofthewriter's.LeoSpitzer:theonlywaytogetoutofthestateofun-pro

6、ductivityistoreadandreread.Summingup:Anystylisticstudyofaliterarytextstartsfromsomecuriosityorthecuriousnoticingofsomedetailsorsomespecialfeaturesofaparticularcaseoflanguageuse,orsuchusesinaliterarytext.Forinbothlinguisticandliteraryspheres,muchrestsontheintuitionandpersonaljud

7、gmentforwhichasystem,howevergood,isanaidratherthenasubstitute.Sointerestandcuriosityisthemotherofstylisticdiscovery.Andthemethodofgettingsomeinterestorinsightistoreadandrereadthetextyouaregoingtoanalyze.Itgoesthroughthelinguisticanalysisofthesedetailsandcomestotherealizationoft

8、hespecialeffectsrealizedthereby.Therelationbetweenstyl