Stylistics

Stylistics studies how linguistic choices create distinctive styles and effects, especially in literary texts. It applies systematic analysis to features such as sound, vocabulary, grammar, and discourse.

Foregrounding: The prominence given to a linguistic feature through deviation, repetition, or parallelism. Stylistic analysis often explains how unusual or repeated patterns draw attention and shape interpretation.
Corpus stylistics: The analysis of style using computational methods and evidence from collections of texts. Corpus methods test whether a suspected pattern is distinctive by comparing it with wider language use.
Russian Formalism: A literary movement that analyzed the devices and structures distinguishing literary language. Its focus on literariness and defamiliarization helped establish questions central to stylistic analysis.
Literary criticism: The analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works. Stylistics supplies close linguistic evidence for claims about literary form and meaning.
Literary impressionism: A mode of literary criticism that relies chiefly on subjective impressions of a work. Stylistics contrasts with impressionistic readings by grounding interpretation in identifiable language patterns.
Register (sociolinguistics): A variety of language associated with a particular situation, purpose, or social activity. Register helps distinguish a text’s situational choices from an author’s broader stylistic habits.
Cohesion (linguistics): The linguistic links that connect sentences and parts of a text. Cohesive ties show how recurring forms create continuity and guide interpretation.
Prague Linguistic Circle: A group of linguists and literary scholars associated with structural and functional approaches to language. Its account of poetic language linked linguistic structure to literary function.
Forensic linguistics: The application of linguistic knowledge and methods to legal contexts. Comparisons of linguistic habits can contribute evidence in authorship and disputed-text investigations.
Structuralism: An approach that explains cultural and linguistic phenomena through underlying systems of relations. Stylistics often examines particular textual choices, while structuralism emphasizes the systems that make them possible.

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