Stylistics چیست؟

سبک شناسی یا Stylistics عبارت است از تفسیر متن بر مبنای سبک زبانشناسی و نواخت آن متن. به اعتقاد پیرسون، هدف اصلی سبک شناسی یا Stylistics صرفا خصوصیات ظاهری و متداول یک نوشته نمی باشد، بلکه اهمیت کاربردی برای تعبیر و تفسیر یک متن می باشد که به منظور ارتباط دادن و مرتبط نمودن اثرات زبانی و لغوی به دلایل زبانشناختی می باشد.   

Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts in regards to their linguistic and tonal style.

As a discipline, it links literary criticism to linguistics. It does not function as an autonomous domain on its own, but it can be applied to an understanding of literature, journalism as well as linguistics.

Stylistics as a conceptual discipline may attempt to establish principles capable of explaining particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language, such as in the literary production and reception of genre, the study of folk art, in the study of spoken dialects and registers, and can be applied to areas such as discourse analysis as well as literary criticism.

Common features of style include the use of dialogue, including regional accents and individual dialects (or ideolects), the use of grammar, such as the observation of active voice and passive voice, the distribution of sentence lengths, the use of particular language registers, and so on. In addition, stylistics is a distinctive term that may be used to determine the connections between

the form and effects within a particular variety of language. Therefore, stylistics looks at what is 'going on' within the language; what the linguistic associations are that the style of language reveals.