英语文体学教案LectureThreeThreeViewsofStyle.docx

英语文体学教案LectureThreeThreeViewsofStyle

第一篇：英语文体学教案LectureThreeThreeViewsofStyleLectureTwo:ThreeViewsofStyleWehaveseenthedefinitionofstylisticsandsomedefinitionsofstyle.Nextwewillseesomemostinfluentialandrepresentativeviewsofstyle.Styleasform.（Aristotle）（formandcontent）Styleaseloquence.（Cicero）（skilltouseLpersuasively）（therelationwithrhetoric）Styleistheman.（Buffon）（Luseisusingitindiscourse）Styleaspersonalidiosyncrasy.（Murry）Sayingtherightthinginthemosteffectiveway.（Enkvist）Styleasthechoicebetweenalternatveexpressions.（Ibid）Styleasequivalence.（RomanJacobson）（betweenformandfunction）Styleasforegrounding.（LeechMukarovsky）Styleasdeviation.（Mukarovsky&Spitzer）Styleasprominence.（Halliday）Styleastheselectionsfeaturespartlydeterminedbythedemandsofgenre,form,themes,etc.（Traugott&Pratt）Styleaslinguisticfeaturesthatcommunicateemotionsandthought.（Enkvist）Whenwriterswrite,theywillnaturalytrytomaketheirlanguagediffferntfromtheothers’,soastoattracttheattentionofthereadersandalsotoensureandsecureanindependentexistence.Ortostandoutfromthemultitudeofmenofletters.Orjustaspecialpositionforhiswriting.Andthatistodepartfromthenormalwayofexpressioninacertainsense.Styleasdeviance.ThisviewofstylisticscomesfromWiddowson’sremarkofstyleholdingthatstylisticanalysishasnofixedprocedureandthetechniqueofdoingthiskindofanalysisistopickonfeaturesinthetextwhichappeartofirstimpressionsasunusualorstrikinginsomewayandthenexploretheirramifications.Thisremarkimpliesthatonlythoseunusualorstrikingfeaturesarestylisticallyrelevant.Andtheimpliedassumptionisthattheliteraryaestheticeffectscanonlybeachievedthroughdeviance.Thoughsomestylisticiansholddifferentviews.Itleadstosuchanassumptionasthatthedistinctivenessofaliterarytextliesinitsdeparturefromthecharacteristicsofwhatiscommunicativelynormal.Italsogivesbirthtotheapproachtostyleasdeviancefromthenormsofagivenlanguage.Mukarovskyisanotherfamousproponentandfounderofthisviewofstyle.InhisfamousarticleStandardLanguageandPoeticLanguage,hespeaksofstyleasforegrounding.Heasser