This course provides learners with theoretical aspects of English stylistics as a subfield of linguistics.

Definition of style; approaches to the study of style; linguistic and literary stylistics; stylistics as rhetoric, principles of style level 1: clarity, simplicity, brevity, fluency; level II style: writing for emphasis genre,allusion, figures of speech, simile, metaphors, metonymy, synecdoche, paradox, oxymoron, indirectness, litotes, innuendo, onomatopoeia, personification, climax, anticlimax, voice; textual analysis of narratives, descriptions, factual essays, discussions, arguments; techniques of style: phonostylistics, grammatical configuration, action and event; theoretical issues in stylistics, the stylistic effects of different features of English Language: sounds, morphemes, word groups, clause types and sentence variations, syntactic description; use of linguistic insights in analyzing literary texts; prose, poetry, drama, media stylistics, political style, advertising.