Subject, Object and Tasks of Stylistics
As for stylistics, it is rather complicated to find out its subject. Stylistics has been studied as a branch of linguistics for only a few decades. The term stylistics has come into existence not so long ago. However, the problems of stylistics go back to ancient rhetoric and poetics.
First of all, stylistics deals with style. Scholars have different approaches to the definition of style. Victor Vinogradov (Виктор Владимирович Виноградов; 31 декабря 1894 [12 января 1895], Зарайск — 4 октября 1969, Москва) defines style as socially recognized and functionally conditioned internally united totality of the way of using, selecting and combining the means of lingual intercourse in the sphere of one language or another.
Another definition offered by Ilya Galperin (Илья Романович Гальперин; 1905, Симферополь — 1984) in one of his textbooks describes style as a system of interrelated language means which serve a definite aim of communication.
Another definition was suggested by Yuri Skrebnev (Юрий Максимович Скребнев; 8 июля 1922, Ишим, Тюменская область – 1993). In his book he states that style is what (different language means) differentiates a group of homogenous texts from all other groups of texts.
Thus, style is the subject-matter of stylistics, and it may be defined as a set of specific features which differentiate one text type from another.
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