Ex. 4 Match the style/ strata of the language with the statement
Super-standard
The old man is dead.
Substandard
The old bean has kicked the bucket.
Standard
Тhе gentleman well advanced in years has attained the termination of his terrestrial existence.
The main branches of stylistics
Ex.5 Define what type of stylistics is described below: Literary stylistics * Lingua-stylistics * Comparative stylistics * Decoding stylistics * Functional stylistics
1
investigates functional styles (in their development and current state), the linguistic nature of the expressive means of the language, their systematic character and their functions.
2
studies the composition of a work of art; various literary genre; the writer’s outlook.
3
is connected with the contrastive study of more than one language.
4
is a branch of lingua-stylistics that investigates functional styles.
5
is an attempt to harmoniously combine the two types of stylistic research and enable the scholar to interpret a work of art with a minimum loss of its purport and message.