702437 - Stylistics
Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

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Co-requisite

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Distribution

3+0

This course covers the basics of stylistics. It investigates the characteristic features of stylistic variation at the syntactic and semantic levels. The course is mainly concerned with the analysis of literary style characteristic of a writer in relation to biographical, psychological, and social parameters reflecting the personality of the writer. The course also examines the parameters of stylistic choices, including the contextual, communicative, rhetorical, and information distribution factors.