МГЛУ, 4 курс.
The notion of stylistics. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics
which deals with expressive resources and functional styles of a
language. Types of stylistics. Linguo-stylistics is a science of
functional styles and expressive potential of a language.
Communicative (decoding) stylistics describes expressive
peculiarities of certain messages (texts). Coding stylistics
(literary stylistics) deals with individual styles of authors.
Contrastive stylis-tics investigates stylistic systems of two or
more languages in comparison. Connection of stylistics with other
branches of linguistics.