Introduction

The book on stylistics was created thanks to the student’s drive and energy. They not only inspired the author to create new tasks, but made a valuable contribution of interesting practical materials.

The whole course of stylistics is covered in ten units. The idea of the book is to engage the class in multi-faceted creative work in practical linguostylistic analyses. The material is to be used as a basis for theoretical seminars that can not be limited by pure discussions of theory and as means of activating stylistic terminology. The chief aim is: the student is supposed to step out of the standard course boundaries.

Each of which 10 basic units concentrates on a particular aspect of stylistics. The aspects are implied in the unit titles: History of English style development, Vocabulary: stylistic aspect, Phonetic stylistic etc. Units are concerned with text-based activities, such as vocabulary analyses, editing, fulfilling a set of reading comprehension tasks. The interpretation of the text is primary. Profound understanding of various expressive means is the key to mastering the theory.

Creative work of independent character is essential. This task can be class, group or individual. Tasks on translation can be only welcome. Various supplementary materials serve to increase the students’ cultural and linguistic erudition.

The work on the book is very demanding. It involves theoretical preparation preliminary to actual work, review of it can be done in class. Theoretical introductory, marked & Basic information on the topic will help to concentrate on theory. Some texts are presented in oral form, marked º oral versions of speech productions. After comprehensive reading or listening the student comes to application of stylistic theory in " Practical stylistic tasks. For enlarging the scope of knowledge students proceed to ¿ Collecting data on other stylistic aspects. The majority of practical tasks contain also minor tasks in translation. They are very important for understanding stylistic problems of translation.

Besides, the book contains Material for independent study that serves as example for independent stylistic search. BIBLIOGRAPHY can help to prepare for seminars and examinations, TESTS are based on theoretical course and help to memorize material. They can also serve for self-assesment.

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