文档介绍：Lecture Two: Three Views of Style
We have seen the definition of stylistics and some definitions of style.
Next we will see some most influential and representative views of style.
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Style as form. (Aristotle)(form and content )
Style as eloquence.(Cicero)(skill to use L persuasively)(the relation with rhetoric)
Style is the man. (Buffon)(L use is using it in discourse)
Style as personal idiosyncrasy.(Murry)
Saying the right thing in the most effective way.(Enkvist)
Style as the choice between alternatve expressions. (Ibid)
Style as equivalence. (Roman Jacobson)(between form and function)
Style as foregrounding. (Leech Mukarovsky)
Style as deviation.(Mukarovsky & Spitzer)
Style as prominence.(Halliday)
Style as the selections features partly determined by the demands of genre, form, themes, etc. (Traugott & Pratt)
Style as linguistic features municate emotions and thought.(Enkvist)
When writers write, they will naturaly try to make their language difffernt from the others’, so as to attract the attention of the readers and also to ensure and secure an independent existence. Or to stand out from the multitude of men of letters. Or just a special position for his writing. And that is to depart from the normal way of expression in a certain sense.
Style as deviance.
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