Stylistics: exploring language styles

The textbook – "Stylistics: Exploring the Language Styles" contains 12 topics. Each theme focuses on a different are of Stylistics and provides materials for using in lectures and seminars. This textbook addresses to the students of the pedagogical and philological institutes and universities where English is a specialty. It can also be used by the other researchers and lecturers. Textbook was developed for the requirements of the higher education system, based on Stylistics, organized the various forms of languages analysis, that is, from the subject matter of Stylistics and its basic notion to Compositional patterns of syntactical arrangement. It also incorporates the Stylistics of new approach, different concept in linguistics and their theoretical and practical foundations. In the Stylistics study types of functional styles in English and their style-forming linguistic features such as Belles-letters style, Publicistics style's, lexical stylistics devices such as metaphor, metonymy and other devices's structure were identified. The coursebook makes extensive use of modern teaching methods and educational technologies. Moreover it helps students develop knowledge and skills in the science of Stylistics, based on scientific and academic information. A student mastering this subject should acquire detailed knowledge of the fields of linguistics, applies linguistics and branches of science.