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Definition of Stylistics
1. Noun. (linguistics) The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stylistics
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stylistics
Literary usage of Stylistics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"The former is the business of Lexicography ; the latter belongs to Grammar, which
must be carefully distinguished from NT stylistics (Rhetoric). ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"The course of their studies embraced ten sciences—grammar, logic, metaphysics,
philology, tropics, stylistics, rhetoric, geometry, and astronomy. ..."
3. Theories of Style, with Especial Reference to Prose Composition; Essays by Lane Cooper (1907)
"4 The term stylistic, or stylistics, is rare in English; in general it may be
replaced by theory of style. 4 Compare Stevenson's essay, sections 3, ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1877)
"We must henceforth consider it as a science of nature, and reject the old conception
of it as a science of the human mind. stylistics ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... him of the great question : What is the distinction between Art and falsehood?
We admire most in this master his great talent for form, for stylistics, ..."
6. Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 by Howard Jason Rogers (1906)
"Word-order, formal stylistics, the limits of prose rhythm, the aesthetic value
of vowel and consonant combinations, minor foreign influences, ..."
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