Stylistics, Literary Criticism, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Abstract

There is confusion regarding the differences between linguistics, stylistics, literary criticism, and discourse analysis (DA) among teachers and learners of the English Major due to their overlapping natures, blurred boundaries, and analysis approaches. Therefore, the present study examines the similarities and differences of these four fields to make a clear demarcation between them. A descriptive and comparative approach using exemplary text was used in the study and the stylistics were thoroughly investigated, analyzed and exemplified in small-scale (one phrase, clause or sentence) or wider-scale (a paragraph). Finally, value judgments on the importance and value of the stylistics were furnished. This research enhances the prospects of pedagogical studies of different language learning and teaching of these four fields. This has opened the window for teacher-oriented studies and presented valid and genuine analytical and diagnostic studies of the related issues to enhance the accessibility of a clear distinction of the above stated fields.

Implementing Stylistics in IELTS Writing Preparation Focusing on Noun Phrases

“…Thus, stylistics, as the study of style, studies language for idea expressions and their significances for the work (Verdonk, 2002). It also bridges both literary and linguistic approaches (Abdulmughni, 2019;Bashiruddin, 2018) since it takes aesthetics in the meaning delivery in a passage (Tariq, 2018).…”

“…That way, stylistics can improve the creativity of language use in writing (Hall, 2014). Stylistics is commonly used for EFL students as an effective method in teaching text construction (Abdulmughni, 2019;Hall, 2014). In this study, the researchers wanted to see how the students styled the keywords of their short descriptive texts.…”

“…In this study, the researchers wanted to see how the students styled the keywords of their short descriptive texts. There are several ways to identify a writer's style used in work, either from the choice of dictions, punctuations, lexical-semantic features, syntactic components, such as phrase and sentence constructions (Abdulmughni, 2019;Gómez-Adorno, Posadas-Duran, Ríos-Toledo, Sidorov, & Sierra, 2018). This study analyzed the syntactic component phrase, especially the NP.…”

Experience in using information technologies in teaching foreign literature

“…Before talking about the innovative methods that are introduced into the educational process due to the Informatization of society and the widespread use of information technologies [7], we would like to express an opinion about the need to introduce almost all areas of training and specialties of higher education into the curriculum as an elective or optional discipline "History of foreign literature of the XX-XXI century".…”

A Study of Tabish Khair’s Poetic Work through Stylistics

“…According to Abdulmughni (2019), the approach of Stylistics as a method demands objectivity rather than involving personal perceptions and subjective interpretations, and aims in stylistics can only be achieved when one has basic comprehensions of all peculiarities of general linguistics. The analysis in Stylistics is rigorous and replicable simultaneously as it is highly objective and impartial based on linguistic evidence it provides that can be verified at any level and in any context (Abdulmughni, 2019). According to Widdowson (2014), Stylistics is a medium to relate other subjects and disciplines and in itself, it is not autonomous.…”