文档介绍：Lecture Notes of English Stylistics
Chapter One Introduction
I. Theoretic Background
Course de Linguistique Generale by Ferdinand de Saussure laid the foundation of the modern linguistics.
Précis de stylistique by Charles Bally, student of Ferdinand de Saussure, laid the foundation of stylistics.
1. Linguistic Theory of Ferdinand de Saussure
two aspects of language study: diachronic study and synchronic study
Langue and parole
langue parole
language system actual speech
social individual
abstract concrete
essential accidental
stable changable
Syntacmatic and pragmatic relation
so
I’m very sorry to hear the news.
awfully
extremely
Language is not substance but form
Language is a social fact
Language is a system of signs
2. Stylistic Theory of Charles Bally
Difference and Development
Langue and parole (focus on parole)
Language is a social fact (put it in practice)
development: natural effect and associative effect of language
Points of View of Charles Bally
Study Object: Charles Bally thought that stylistics should study the expressive ways of language users and the affective language elements
Final Goal: Estalishment of Linguistics which study parole
Linguistics
studies how to express
meaning in language
denotative meaning
language system
Stylistics
studies how to make language
produce stylistics effects
connotative meaning
language in different social occasions
In explaining what stylistics is, Charles Bally thought that language expresses both people’s ideas and emotions and stylistics doesn’t pursue the meanings but the explaination municative effects which constitute style. Linguistics studies the language function munication and style is the product of the municative function. Language is a social fact because it reflects the language users’ age, profession, educational level and cultural background. In using language, people always choose the appropriate expressing ways of words and structures according to the co