Stylistics

Word STYLISTICS
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Definitions and meanings of "Stylistics"

What do we mean by stylistics?

The study of the use of elements of language style, such as metaphor, in particular contexts. noun

The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts. noun

The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts.

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The word "stylistics" in example sentences

Twitteresque – digital stylistics or path to a higher being? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Equally, in his brisk 1987 thriller Best Seller – about an author-cop who sees a way out of his writer's block via a corporate hitman's psychopathic life story – it's Larry Cohen's cynical, subversive script that registers most strongly, not the stylistics of John Flynn. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Might it have something to do with the fact that reviewers are almost exclusively authors themselves, and perhaps more concerned with promoting their own thematic preferences and flaunting their prose stylistics than actually writing an accurate, even-handed review? ❋ Unknown (2010)

This stylistic strategy seems to me a genuine contribution to literary stylistics specifically and to American literature more generally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is not unintentional, nor is it mere stylistics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How does the utilization of diction, tone and stylistics aid to the story? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The most important Duden Bänder are Stilistik (the original collocation dictionary), Grammatik, Rechtschreibung, and Gutes Deutsch (another mainstay for stylistics). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Without realizing it, I absorbed — mostly from the sidelines — the deep fusion of hip and leftist stylistics that informed the protest culture on my college campus. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Scott's production unit at RKO soon established a reputation for low-budget melodramas that combined noir stylistics and social justice themes to produce box-office magic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Normally this sort of thing involves an epic debate on the virtues of internal consistency and a comparative stylistics lecture on how the different languages put different value on the use of a varied vocabulary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the logical notion of tautology, which is very different from the way the term tautology is used in stylistics ❋ DC (2009)

Documentaries really do fire my engine: the twin sisters of pathos and Hollywood stylistics often sour the facts, so whenever a factual account becomes available I feel immediately compelled to seek it out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Note 8: For a fascinating discussion of noir stylistics, see Foster Hirsch, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir (New York: Da Capo Press, 1983), 71 – 112. back ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Panthers 'urban guerrilla attire, for example, which [Huey] Newton and [Bobby] Seale apparently designed after watching a movie about French underground resistance fighters, also assimilated the cool, outsider stylistics of 1950s jazz and beat culture and the macho, leather-clad look that Marlon Brando perfected in The Wild One (1954). ❋ Unknown (2007)

In so doing, I also seek to delineate both the parallels and the distinctions between a postmodern approach in the West and in Russia, where it not only has distinctive aesthetic stylistics but also different functions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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