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EGL305 (Introduction to Linguistic Stylistics) is the first Stylistics course in the department of English, OAU. As an introductory course, you will be introduced to the world of Stylistics, the peculiar terminologies used in the field and how texts are analysed using the stylistic approach.

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Overview of Stylistics
Before you start studying any course, knowing what it entails, its nature and its scope will help you have a good start. This topic aims to give you a brief overview of what Stylistics is all about.

Literature vs Lingustics vs Stylistics

12:43
Literary Criticism vs Stylistic Criticism

18:25

Origin of Stylistics
Knowing where Stylistics as a discipline sprang from is important, and this is what you will be learning in this topic.

Scholarly Definitions of Stylistics
Over the years, several scholars have made comments on Stylistics, from those that merely defined it to those who extensively studied it. Learning some of these scholarly definitions will help you further understand the nature, scope and methodologies of the discipline.

Nature of Stylistics
What exactly is the nature of Stylistics? The nature of Stylistics is its very essence, its focus. You will learn this here.

Goals of Stylistics

Methods of Literary Criticism and Stylistics
Here, you will learn what differentiates literary criticism from stylistic analysis.

The Complementary Role of Stylistics and Literary Criticism
Although literary criticism and stylistics have different approaches, here, you will learn how they complement each other.

Style
The term 'style' ranks the highest on the ladder of stylistic terms. This section is devoted to the study of STYLE.

Texts
Text is the next stylistic term integral to this discipline.

Context

Norm

Deviation

Foregrounding

Prominence

Levels of Stylistics Analysis

Branches of Stylistics
Stylistics, since its inception, has been applied to various disciplines. You will learn them in this topic.

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Course Content

Overview of Stylistics Before you start studying any course, knowing what it entails, its nature and its scope will help you have a good start. This topic aims to give you a brief overview of what Stylistics is all about.

Literature vs Lingustics vs Stylistics

Literary Criticism vs Stylistic Criticism

Origin of Stylistics Knowing where Stylistics as a discipline sprang from is important, and this is what you will be learning in this topic.

The Historical and Etymological Root of Stylistics

How Do Different Scholars Define Stylistics?

Nature of Stylistics What exactly is the nature of Stylistics? The nature of Stylistics is its very essence, its focus. You will learn this here.

What do we do in Stylistics?

Goals of Stylistics

Why exactly do we do Stylistics?

Methods of Literary Criticism and Stylistics Here, you will learn what differentiates literary criticism from stylistic analysis.

The Method of Literary Criticism

The Method of Stylistic Criticism

The Method of Stylistic Criticism (Part Two)

The Complementary Role of Stylistics and Literary Criticism Although literary criticism and stylistics have different approaches, here, you will learn how they complement each other.

How does Stylistics Complete Literary Criticism

Style The term 'style' ranks the highest on the ladder of stylistic terms. This section is devoted to the study of STYLE.

The Concept of and Notions of STYLE

Texts Text is the next stylistic term integral to this discipline.

The Concept of Text

Context

The Concept of Context

Norm

Meaning and Types

Deviation

Meaning and Types

Foregrounding

Meaning and Types

Prominence

Meaning and Types

Levels of Stylistics Analysis

Graphological Level

Phonological Level

Lexico Semantic Level of Analysis

Grammatical Level

Branches of Stylistics Stylistics, since its inception, has been applied to various disciplines. You will learn them in this topic.

Part One

Part Two

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Overview of Stylistics
Before you start studying any course, knowing what it entails, its nature and its scope will help you have a good start. This topic aims to give you a brief overview of what Stylistics is all about.

Origin of Stylistics
Knowing where Stylistics as a discipline sprang from is important, and this is what you will be learning in this topic.

Nature of Stylistics
What exactly is the nature of Stylistics? The nature of Stylistics is its very essence, its focus. You will learn this here.

Methods of Literary Criticism and Stylistics
Here, you will learn what differentiates literary criticism from stylistic analysis.

The Complementary Role of Stylistics and Literary Criticism
Although literary criticism and stylistics have different approaches, here, you will learn how they complement each other.

Style
The term 'style' ranks the highest on the ladder of stylistic terms. This section is devoted to the study of STYLE.

Texts
Text is the next stylistic term integral to this discipline.

Branches of Stylistics
Stylistics, since its inception, has been applied to various disciplines. You will learn them in this topic.